Top 40 Website Programming Languages

Hi Friends, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find out what programming languages the most popular websites use.

Obviously This is not easy to find out any websites or software tools, because the developers usually they don't want to publish their programming code to the people. So it is very tough task to figure out.

I got some information from other reference sources in searching and then i have made some list here..

This results are in no way definitive and may even be wrong, but the results are from HTTP Header information, Request for file types (.php for example), Searches on forums, presentations and Google Educated guesses ;)

It is purly the programming languages that are serving through HTML.

Results

-- Website -- Programming Language Used
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Google - C, C++, PHP*, Ajax

facebook.com -- PHP

youtube.com -- Python

yahoo.com -- PHP*

live.com -- ASP.NET

wikipedia.org -- PHP

msn.com -- ASP.NET

blogspot.com -- Python*

baidu.com -- PHP

microsoft.com -- ASP.NET

qq.com -- PHP

bing.com -- ASP.NET

ask.com -- SSI

taobao.com -- PHP

twitter.com -- Ruby on Rails

adobe.com -- ColdFusion

youku.com -- PHP

soso.com -- CGI*

wordpress.com -- PHP

sohu.com -- PHP

163.com -- JSP

windows.com -- ASP.NET

hao123.com -- PHP

amazon.com -- CGI

tudou.com -- PHP

apple.com -- PHP

ebay.com -- CGI

linkedin.com -- Scala/Java

yahoo.co.jp -- PHP*

sogou.com -- PHP

go.com -- CGI

4399.com -- PHP

paypal.com -- CGI

mozilla.com -- PHP/Python

aol.com -- JSP

about.com -- unknown

xunlei.com -- PHP

56.com -- PHP

flickr.com -- PHP

craigslist.org -- Perl

tmall.com -- PHP

*guesses

Notes,

Based on the above results we see that PHP is the dominant language claming 50% of the top 40 websites. Also, ASP.NET seems to be only used in Microsoft properties.

If you see an error in the results I would love to hear from you. please leave a comment stating the correction. Thanks for reading.

Sources : Google, Yahoo, rogchap.com etc.