FIRST REPORT

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 from Italian, French or Spanish;
• .org is not as multilingual as one would expect…

Consult the report here.

With our multilingual gracias to Dataprovider.com for the courtesy access to this wealth of data.