Big5 Usage Statistics

Big-5 or Big5 is a character encoding method used in Taiwan and Hong Kong for Traditional Chinese characters.

This chart represents Big5 penetration over a historical time period on a large selection of website homepages queried by BuiltWith.

The usage trends are updated twice a month with the last calculation occuring on February 28 2010.

For more information about Big5 visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big5

Encoding refers to the character encoding used to describe the page. BuiltWith can detect this as it is typically described at the top of the page or from within meta tags. Telling the browser what character encoding is being used allows the browser to render the correct characters on the screen, it also is the reason why visiting a Chinese language website will render in Chinese characters and not a Western character set and vice versa.

The majority of the top internet sites use UTF-8 encoding, a Unicode standard which is required by all internet protocols to be identifiable.

Distribution is calculated from a cross section of website domains provided by URLs entered at BuiltWith.com and the Quantcast Top Million. Last calculated on February 28 2010

Analytics penetration is based on what BuiltWith can find and is typically based on popular 3rd party tools. Last calculated on February 28 2010.