OBDILCI is pleased to announce a new series of studies about the state of multilingualism of the WWW, sustained by data from https://Dataprovider.com.
Their database gathers over 200 parameters about web sites, covering nearly the entire WWW ecosystem (800+ million records, including 167 million active websites and 91 million with relevant language information available). Among these parameters, some pertain to languages and others can be cross-referenced with language data.
This first report updates the study made by Ionan University in 2009 on the prevalence of English within European Union ccTLD web sites, showing notable evolution (English drops from 28% to 20%). It allows a first estimation of the global rate of multilingualism of the WWW and produces interesting correlations between the main language of the sites and ecommerce, type of TLD, economic activity and more.
Some intuitive insights, and a few surprises, are now backed by strong data:
· more than half Ukrainian, Estonian, Catalan or Greek web sites are multilingual;
· correlation between high economic footprint sites and multilingualism is impressive;
· Chinese, Korean and Japanese could do better in terms of percentage of multilingual sites;
· same for Portuguese which is just below average at difference of Italian, French and Spanish;
· .org is not as multilingual as one would expect...
Consult the first report here. Check the new section in our website here.
With our multilingual gracias to Dataprovider.com for the courtesy access to this wealth of data.