Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.
This chart represents Perl web usage trends over a historical time period on a large selection of website homepages queried by BuiltWith. See the FAQ for more information.
We know of 1,752,831 sites using Perl, download website list.
The usage trends within the top million sites are updated once per week with the last update occurring on 05 Feb 2012.
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Perl is most likely to be found in use on Adult, Business or Shopping type websites.
Perl Top Ten Website Industry Distribution in the Top 100,000 Sites
The chart shows the typical type of websites Perl can be found on by distribution. We know of 35
categories that Perl websites can be found on.