Growth of European Languages Sites
By: Amit Bhushan Date; 26th May 2015
The Internet site stats from W3 Techs Historical trends show that the percentage sites with content in Continental European are growing, while percentage sites with content in English language, share is declining, over the year. In last one year Sites in English as a percentage has declined from 56.1% to 55.5%, though much of the growth has taken place in continental European language sites rather than Asian Languages. This is followed by Malay, Hindi and others.
Another interesting observation is that despite of its size and investment in Chinese, the Chinese language sites still trail Russian and Japanese language sites by a wide margin. Not to mention that sites in Desi Languages trail despite whatever growth that has taken place over the years. The data actually points to the opportunity that is still available for tech-preneurs for tapping i.e. possibility of success stories of one region to be replicated in others.
It may be noted that in term of population size, per capita income (in PPP terms), internet access etc. Malaysia may not be far behind Poland, however websites in Malay trail the number of websites in Polish language by a wide margin (are just a fraction). see figure
Similarly, the Chinese Middle class at approx. 250-300 mio. (in PPP terms) might already be approx. be twice the size of total population of Russia or Japan and enjoying nearly as good access to internet/broadband, however the Chinese websites still trail the number of websites in these languages. While the hard pressed Chinese with limited net freedom as well as restrictions on foreign entrepreneurs could be a reason for their lack of growth, although the government there is still pressed to improve service sector to keep their growth engine chugging and this might propel local opportunities.
However lack of websites in other languages such as Malay may be due to continued push for English either directly or obliquely by the economic machinery often putting aborigines at discomfort. A bit wider movement for local language content on web might create huge opportunity for the tech-preneurs to expand their scope of activities for present and also set a trend for future growth as well. Guess other languages will take off sooner as they see the rise of success models and the information spreads out.
By: Amit Bhushan Date; 26th May 2015
The Internet site stats from W3 Techs Historical trends show that the percentage sites with content in Continental European are growing, while percentage sites with content in English language, share is declining, over the year. In last one year Sites in English as a percentage has declined from 56.1% to 55.5%, though much of the growth has taken place in continental European language sites rather than Asian Languages. This is followed by Malay, Hindi and others.
Another interesting observation is that despite of its size and investment in Chinese, the Chinese language sites still trail Russian and Japanese language sites by a wide margin. Not to mention that sites in Desi Languages trail despite whatever growth that has taken place over the years. The data actually points to the opportunity that is still available for tech-preneurs for tapping i.e. possibility of success stories of one region to be replicated in others.
It may be noted that in term of population size, per capita income (in PPP terms), internet access etc. Malaysia may not be far behind Poland, however websites in Malay trail the number of websites in Polish language by a wide margin (are just a fraction). see figure
Similarly, the Chinese Middle class at approx. 250-300 mio. (in PPP terms) might already be approx. be twice the size of total population of Russia or Japan and enjoying nearly as good access to internet/broadband, however the Chinese websites still trail the number of websites in these languages. While the hard pressed Chinese with limited net freedom as well as restrictions on foreign entrepreneurs could be a reason for their lack of growth, although the government there is still pressed to improve service sector to keep their growth engine chugging and this might propel local opportunities.
However lack of websites in other languages such as Malay may be due to continued push for English either directly or obliquely by the economic machinery often putting aborigines at discomfort. A bit wider movement for local language content on web might create huge opportunity for the tech-preneurs to expand their scope of activities for present and also set a trend for future growth as well. Guess other languages will take off sooner as they see the rise of success models and the information spreads out.