Web Globalization Report Card

Trends in Language Usage.

By following language growth (and decline) over a long time span, we have identified trends in collective and specific languages, as shown here.

Average & median languages per company, by year

Language Growth

All companies benchmarked that yearSame 55 companies every year

Does not include JW.org.

2026 average
34.8
2026 median
32
Companies tracked
149

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2015–2026

Language Adds and Drops

Net languages added across the tracker each year — additions minus drops, not additions alone. A year can go negative when more languages were dropped than added.

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Reflects additions or drops from existing websites; newly tracked websites are not included.

2025→2026

Biggest gainers this year

Company20252026Change
Jehovah’s Witnesses10301129+99
TikTok3575+40
Shopify2241+19
BYD2031+11
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints144154+10
Wikipedia339348+9
Hisense3037+7
Disney+2532+7
WordPress1924+5
Samsung4549+4

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2015–2026

Language growth by region

% of tracked companies supporting each language. Computed from current data, so earlier years may undercount languages whose add date wasn’t recorded.

Selected Asian Languages

20152026

Western European Languages

20152026

Northern European Languages

20152026

Eastern European Languages

20152026

Southern European Languages

20152026

Selected Indic Languages

20152026

Arabic-language Websites

Spanish for the US

The Use of British English

The Decline of Russian

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