{"id":19624,"date":"2022-11-07T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-perl-market-position-in-server-side-scripting-so-low-even-less-than-java-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:30:02","slug":"solved-why-is-perl-market-position-in-server-side-scripting-so-low-even-less-than-java-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-perl-market-position-in-server-side-scripting-so-low-even-less-than-java-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Why is Perl market position in server-side scripting so low, even less than Java? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-11577130\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"11577130\" data-parentid=\"11576469\" data-score=\"12\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>This article has a lot of details on how W3Techs gets their data: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/w3techs.com\/blog\/entry\/usage_of_perl_for_websites_fell_below_1_percent\">http:\/\/w3techs.com\/blog\/entry\/usage_of_perl_for_websites_fell_below_1_percent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As i did some analysis on this, let me summarize in short that the data presented by W3Techs is deeply flawed and extremely misleading. First off, it is important to know that they detect technologies of sites by running simple scripts at them that look for file suffixes in urls and then just take that and <strong>never verify with the site owner<\/strong>. As such they have a &#8220;no-detect&#8221; rate of 17.6% (plus an <strong>unknown<\/strong> &#8220;false-detect&#8221; rate). A more correct version of their chart would be this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Solved-Why-is-Perl-market-position-in-server-side-scripting-so.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get more details and more mistakes in their data methodology, please take a look at the comments of the article, especially those written by &#8220;Mithaldu&#8221; or &#8220;Christian Walde&#8221;, i.e. me. I posted extensively there as to why their data is nearly useless and why they&#8217;re even misinterpreting the data they do have.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">6<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Why is Perl market position in server-side scripting so low, even less than Java? [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This article has a lot of details on how W3Techs gets their data: http:\/\/w3techs.com\/blog\/entry\/usage_of_perl_for_websites_fell_below_1_percent As i did some analysis on this, let me summarize in short that the data presented by W3Techs is deeply flawed and extremely misleading. First off, it is important to know that they detect technologies of sites by running simple &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Why is Perl market position in server-side scripting so low, even less than Java? 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