The following tables illustrates the usage of web authoring tools
on the web. The tool is determined by examining the web page
meta tag 'generator'. Readers are cautioned that not all authoring
packages insert their name in this meta tag, and as such may not
be picked up in this survey.
The May survey is based on a sample size of 746,440 pages downloaded from 123,814 sites. We detected authoring tool usage on 40,724 sites (32.89% of all sites visited).
| Web Authoring Package | Count | Percent |
| microsoft frontpage 3.0 | 10,164 | 8.21% |
| microsoft frontpage 4.0 | 8,402 | 6.79% |
| microsoft frontpage 2.0 | 1,990 | 1.61% |
| adobe golive 4 | 1,297 | 1.05% |
| microsoft frontpage express 2.0 | 1,231 | 0.99% |
| microsoft word 97 | 898 | 0.73% |
| adobe pagemill 3.0 win | 830 | 0.67% |
| adobe pagemill 2.0 mac | 639 | 0.52% |
| adobe pagemill 3.0 mac | 457 | 0.37% |
| namo webeditor v3.0 | 447 | 0.36% |
| golive cyberstudio 3 | 443 | 0.36% |
| netobjects fusion 4.0 for windows | 427 | 0.34% |
| hotmetal pro 4.0 | 373 | 0.30% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 305 | 0.25% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 278 | 0.22% |
| microsoft visual studio 6.0 | 262 | 0.21% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (winnt; i) [netscape] | 248 | 0.20% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (win95; i) [netscape] | 236 | 0.19% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 206 | 0.17% |
| microsoft frontpage 1.1 | 192 | 0.16% |
| visual page 2.0 for windows | 187 | 0.15% |
| golive cyberstudio | 179 | 0.14% |
| mozilla/4.01 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 172 | 0.14% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 170 | 0.14% |
| adobe pagemill 2.0 win | 166 | 0.13% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 155 | 0.13% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 148 | 0.12% |
| hotmetal pro 5.0 | 139 | 0.11% |
| internet assistant for microsoft word 2.04z | 138 | 0.11% |
| mozilla/3.0gold (win95; i) [netscape] | 135 | 0.11% |
| bbedit 4.5 | 130 | 0.10% |
| netobjects fusion 3.0 for windows | 127 | 0.10% |
| netobjects fusion 4.0.1 for windows | 126 | 0.10% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 119 | 0.10% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 115 | 0.09% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 114 | 0.09% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 112 | 0.09% |
| mozilla/4.03 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 111 | 0.09% |
| microsoft publisher 98 | 99 | 0.08% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 96 | 0.08% |
| mozilla/4.6 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 92 | 0.07% |
| mozilla/3.04gold (win95; i) [netscape] | 90 | 0.07% |
| microsoft visual interdev 1.0 | 90 | 0.07% |
| sausage software hotdog professional 4 | 85 | 0.07% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 83 | 0.07% |
| adobe pagemill 3.0j mac | 75 | 0.06% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 71 | 0.06% |
| adobe pagemill 2.0j mac | 71 | 0.06% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 69 | 0.06% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 67 | 0.05% |
| sausage software hotdog professional 5 | 65 | 0.05% |
| microsoft developer studio | 64 | 0.05% |
| microsoft publisher 2000 | 63 | 0.05% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 62 | 0.05% |
| notepad | 60 | 0.05% |
| microsoft publisher 97 | 60 | 0.05% |
| symantec visual page mac 1.1.1 | 59 | 0.05% |
| ibm homepage builder 2001 v5.0.0 for windows | 58 | 0.05% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 57 | 0.05% |
| | 57 | 0.05% |
| corel wordperfect 8 | 56 | 0.05% |
| netobjects fusion 3.0.1 for windows | 55 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 54 | 0.04% |
| namo webeditor v2.1 | 53 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.6 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 53 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.02 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 53 | 0.04% |
| visual page 1.1a for windows | 51 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.6 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 51 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.5 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 51 | 0.04% |
| visual page 1.0 for windows | 50 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 50 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 49 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 49 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 48 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/2.01gold (win32) | 48 | 0.04% |
| netobjects fusion 3.0 for macintosh | 47 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 47 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/4.01 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 47 | 0.04% |
| mozilla/3.0gold (win95; u) [netscape] | 45 | 0.04% |
| adobe pagemill 3.0j win | 45 | 0.04% |
| internet assistant for microsoft word 2.0z | 44 | 0.04% |
| netobjects authoring server 2000 | 43 | 0.03% |
| bbedit 5.0 | 43 | 0.03% |
| arachnophilia 3.9 | 43 | 0.03% |
| namo webeditor v2.00 | 41 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 41 | 0.03% |
| ibm homepage builder 2000 v4.0.2 for windows | 41 | 0.03% |
| netobjects fusion 3.0.1 for windows | 39 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 37 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/3.0gold (winnt; i) [netscape] | 37 | 0.03% |
| lotus domino 4.6 | 37 | 0.03% |
| htmlpad | 37 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 36 | 0.03% |
| netobjects fusion 5.0 for windows | 35 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.02 [en]c-dial (win95; u) [netscape] | 35 | 0.03% |
| symantec visual page 1.0 | 34 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 34 | 0.03% |
| netobjects fusion 2.0.2 for windows | 33 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 33 | 0.03% |
| elemental software drumbeat 2000 3.04.411 | 33 | 0.03% |
| cosmo create 1.0.3 | 33 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (x11; i; linux 2.1.88 i586) [netscape] | 32 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.03 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 32 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 31 | 0.03% |
| mozilla/4.61 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 31 | 0.03% |
| netobjects authoring server 3.0 for windows | 30 | 0.02% |
| microsoft word 97/98 | 30 | 0.02% |
| html tidy, see www.w3.org | 30 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 29 | 0.02% |
| internet assistant for word 1.0z | 29 | 0.02% |
| microvision development / webexpress | 28 | 0.02% |
| bbedit 5.1.1 | 27 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 26 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.0 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 26 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 25 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.6 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 25 | 0.02% |
| htmled32 version 2.0d | 25 | 0.02% |
| staroffice/5.1 (linux) | 24 | 0.02% |
| ibm homepage builder v3.0 for windows | 24 | 0.02% |
| editplus 1.2 | 24 | 0.02% |
| user-agent: mozilla/3.01gold (macintosh; i; ppc) | 23 | 0.02% |
| netobjects fusion 4.0 trial for windows | 23 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.7 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 23 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 23 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.08 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 23 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 23 | 0.02% |
| arachnophilia 3.4 | 23 | 0.02% |
| visual page 2.0 for windows - trial version | 22 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.07 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 22 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.03 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 22 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/3.0gold (win16; i) [netscape] | 22 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (win16; i) [netscape] | 22 | 0.02% |
| ibm homepage builder 2000 for windows | 22 | 0.02% |
| vi | 21 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en]c-cck-mcd nscpcd47 (win98; i) [netscape] | 21 | 0.02% |
| hotdog professional | 21 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 20 | 0.02% |
| internet assistant for microsoft word 2.0z beta | 20 | 0.02% |
| elemental software drumbeat 2000 3.01.369 | 20 | 0.02% |
| super notetab 2.63 | 19 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.5b1 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 19 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.02 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 19 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/4.01 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 19 | 0.02% |
| mozilla/3.03gold (win95; i) [netscape] | 19 | 0.02% |
| user-agent: mozilla/3.0gold (macintosh; i; ppc) | 18 | 0.01% |
| ibm netobjects toppage v4.0.3 for windows | 18 | 0.01% |
| bbedit 5.1 | 18 | 0.01% |
| webexpert | 17 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 17 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 17 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.04 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 17 | 0.01% |
| midnight commander :-) | 17 | 0.01% |
| pavel b. pereverseff | 16 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.7 [en]c-cck-mcd nscpcd47 (win95; i) [netscape] | 16 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.61 [en] (x11; i; linux 2.2.9-23mdk i686) [netscape] | 16 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.51 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 16 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.05 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 16 | 0.01% |
| microsoft internet assistant for powerpoint 97 | 16 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 15 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en]c-moene (win95; u) [netscape] | 15 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.03 [es] (win95; i) [netscape] | 15 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.01 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 15 | 0.01% |
| microsoft word 98 | 15 | 0.01% |
| microsoft frontpage (visual interdev edition) 2.0 | 15 | 0.01% |
| dreamweaver | 15 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.72 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.7 [ja] (win98; i) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.51 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.08 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.08 [en] (win95; i) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (x11; i; linux 2.0.34 i686) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (win95; i; 16bit) [netscape] | 14 | 0.01% |
| ibm homepage builder 2000 v4.0.4 for windows | 14 | 0.01% |
| visual page 1.1 for windows | 13 | 0.01% |
| textpad 3.0 | 13 | 0.01% |
| symantec visual page mac evaluation version 1.1.1 | 13 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (win95; u) [netscape] | 13 | 0.01% |
| microsoft word 9 | 13 | 0.01% |
| ibm homepage builder 2001 v5.0.2 for windows | 13 | 0.01% |
| symantec visual page 1.0.2 | 12 | 0.01% |
| netobjects fusion 2.0.1 for windows | 12 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 [es] (win98; i) [netscape] | 12 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.07 [en] (win98; i) [netscape] | 12 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.03 (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 12 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.04gold (x11; i; osf1 v4.0 alpha) [netscape] | 12 | 0.01% |
| lotus word pro | 12 | 0.01% |
| ibm homepage builder v3.0.7 for windows | 12 | 0.01% |
| allaire homesite 4.0 | 12 | 0.01% |
| adobe pagemill 2.0j win | 12 | 0.01% |
| aceexpert | 12 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.07 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 11 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en] (win95; u) [netscape] | 11 | 0.01% |
| cutehtml | 11 | 0.01% |
| netobjects fusion 4.0.1 für windows | 10 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 [es] (win95; i) [netscape] | 10 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en]c-compaq (win98; i) [netscape] | 10 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.05 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 10 | 0.01% |
| microsoft frontpad 2.0 | 10 | 0.01% |
| frontier 5.0.1 macos | 10 | 0.01% |
| frontier 4.2 mac | 10 | 0.01% |
| claris home page 3.0 | 10 | 0.01% |
| wordpad | 9 | 0.01% |
| user-agent: mozilla/3.01gold [ja] (macintosh; i; ppc) | 9 | 0.01% |
| transtech information company | 9 | 0.01% |
| thurman ray plumlee aka wwwhelper | 9 | 0.01% |
| notetab 4.5 | 9 | 0.01% |
| namo webeditor v4.0(beta) | 9 | 0.01% |
| namo webeditor v2.0 | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.6 [ja] (win98; i) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.6 [en] (win98; u) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.06 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.05 [ja] (win95; i) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.01 [de] (win95; i) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.0b6gold (win95; i) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.04gold (winnt; i) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.01gold (x11; i; sunos 5.5.1 sun4u) [netscape] | 9 | 0.01% |
| microsoft notepad | 9 | 0.01% |
| internet assistant for microsoft word 2.0 | 9 | 0.01% |
| htmled pro version 2.5a | 9 | 0.01% |
| html document by hwpw 97 | 9 | 0.01% |
| fwd | 9 | 0.01% |
| vermeer frontpage 1.0 | 8 | 0.01% |
| symantec visual page mac 1.1 | 8 | 0.01% |
| stone's webwriter 2 | 8 | 0.01% |
| staroffice/5.1 (win32) | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.7 [ja] (macintosh; i; ppc) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.7 [de] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.7 (macintosh; u; ppc) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en] (x11; i; sunos 5.6 sun4u) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.03 [en]c-dial (win95; u) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.03 [de] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.0 [en] (winnt; i) [netscape] | 8 | 0.01% |
| ibm homepage builder 2001 v5.0.3 for windows | 8 | 0.01% |
| homesite 3.0 | 8 | 0.01% |
| homesite | 8 | 0.01% |
| elemental software drumbeat 2000 3.02.378 | 8 | 0.01% |
| breakthrough software, inc., shopzone, (c) 1997, 1998 | 8 | 0.01% |
| analog2.11/unix | 8 | 0.01% |
| user-agent: mozilla/3.0gold (macintosh; i; 68k) | 7 | 0.01% |
| netobjects fusion personal edition for windows | 7 | 0.01% |
| namo webeditor v1.10 | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.6 [en] (winnt; u) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.51 (macintosh; u; ppc) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 [ja] (win95; i) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 [en]c-cck-mcd {tlc;retail} (win98; u) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.5 (macintosh; u; ppc) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.07 [en] (x11; i; linux 2.0.36 i586) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.04 [en] (x11; i; linux 2.0.33 i586) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/4.03 [pt] (win95; i) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.04gold (win95; u) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/3.01gold [ja] (win95; i) [netscape] | 7 | 0.01% |
| mozilla/2.0goldb1 (win32) | 7 | 0.01% |
| metromanager (tm) | 7 | 0.01% |
| internet assistant for microsoft word 2.03j | 7 | 0.01% |
| ibm homepage builder 2000 v4.0.3 for windows | 7 | 0.01% |
| htmled pro32 version 2.0b | 7 | 0.01% |
| dreamweaver 2.0 | 7 | 0.01% |
| carouselle version 1.05 | 7 | 0.01% |
| arachnophilia 4.0 | 7 | 0.01% |
| analog4.01/unix | 7 | 0.01% |
