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TIL: The English language dominates the web despite the world having more Chinese and Hindi speakers.
(chat.maiion.com)
Rest of World turned to W3Techs, a web-scanning firm based in Austria, to count all of the publicly accessible web addresses on the internet to get hard numbers on the discrepancy. Our data shows that a little more than half the sites on the web use English as their primary language. That’s a lot more than one might expect, given that native English speakers only make up just under 5% of the global population. Meanwhile, Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but the same scan found they account for just 1.4% and 0.07% of domains, respectively.
Is be interested in a comparison that includes more people than just "primary language" speakers, because most Chinese and English speakers don't use those languages as their primary language. Most Europeans, for example, can speak English even though their primary language is their native language.