We can now offer figures for the state of the art of WEB Multilingualism. Figures updated at the light of last studies on April 2026.

	WHOLE WEB (3)	ONE MILLION MOST VISITED SITES (TRANCO) (2)	COMMENT
Rate of multilingualism	1.6	3	Number of web linguistic versions divided by number of web sites
Percentage of multilingual web sites	15%	33.7%	Huge variance depending on country, language or type of web.
Average number of languages per multilingual web site	5	7

Note 1 : Figures in bold are measured, figures in italic are estimated or computed from an estimated figure.

Note 2: The figure of web multilingualism shall be compared with the equivalent figure for the humanity computed as number of speakers first and second languages divided by number of speakers first language which value is 1.44 following Ethnologue’s data for 2024. The world wide web is therefore much more multilingual than humanity…

Note 3: It is perfectly coherent that the one million most visited web sites are 2.3 times more multilingual than the average world wide.

PERCENTAGE OF WEBPAGES PER LANGUAGE	WHOLE WEB (1)	TRANCO (3)
English	20,08%	21,77%
Chinese	19,04%	2,77%
Spanish	7,70%	6,36%
Hindi	3,77%	0,75%
Russian	3,75%	3,86%
Arabic	3,65%	1,60%
French	3,42%	6,38%
Portuguese	3,16%	3,86%
Japanese	2,23%	2,93%
German	2,15%	6,93%
Indonesian	2,02%	1,79%
Bengali	1,48%	0,33%
Turkish	1,14%	1,76%
Italian	0,99%	4,13%
Vietnamese	0,95%	1,09%
Korean	0,87%	1,62%
Persian	0,86%	0,28%
Urdu	0,83%	0,20%
Tagalog	0,76%	0,22%
Thai	0,67%	1,03%
Marathi	0,58%	0,14%
Telugu	0,57%	0,12%
Polish	0,56%	2,57%

The large differences between the two figures account for the fact that the most visited web sites are by design (natural bias from trafic) and by construction (geographic bias leading to European languages bias from the ranking sources – Majestic, QuantCast, Cisco Umbrella) strongly biased in pro of main dominant European languages.

If you are interested in knowing all other existing sources for corresponding figures, check this document published for UNESCO LT4ALL2025.