Serpent wrote:Ug_Caveman wrote: Is it due to Russian acting as a lingua franca across Eastern Europe?
Some other reasons I can think of:
-mirror sites. Interestingly this includes sites where the interface is in Russian but the actual content is in another language
-There are still plenty of major sites for stuff like reviews/opinions, information, gossip and whatnot. On many subjects there's no single go-to site but several equally good ones.
-Emigrants/expats often continue using Russian sites and may create new sites for their community.
I resemble that remark. Perhaps too closely.Christi wrote:At the risk of sounding stupid
Serpent's answers and your question lead me to the following conclusion. Apologies in advance to Ug_Caveman.
The subject would be less confusing if it asked: Why are so many websites in Russian?. (I don't care for the sound of that though).
Amount of content is not the same as number of websites. There's a correlation, but it's quite inexact. Conclusion from Serpent's brilliant examples. Say there are a million small (content wise) websites that focus on any of a million possible themes. Then there's 1 enormous site that focuses on everything. The stats in the original post do NOT reflect amount of content. They reflect number of websites.
FAQ from W3Techs - the site that created the image wrote:Which websites do you count? Do you crawl all the web?
For the surveys, we count the top 10 million websites according to Alexa and Tranco, see our technology overview for more explanations. We do crawl more sites, but we use the top 10 million to select a representative sample of established sites. We found that including more sites in the sample (e.g. all the sites we know) may easily lead to a bias towards technologies typically used for "throw-away" sites or parked sites or other types of spam domains.
