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Perl

18,400

companies run it, 0.03% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 100,108 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.05%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

18,400 at Sept 26; 18,203 twelve months earlier, +197, +1.1% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
2021-0110,7692,458
2021-0210,7702,458
2021-0310,7712,458
2021-0410,7722,458
2021-0510,7732,458
2021-0610,7742,459
2021-0710,7742,459
2021-0810,7872,462
2021-0910,7982,464
2021-1010,8082,466
2021-1110,8172,469
2021-1210,8262,471
2022-0110,8352,473
2022-0210,8432,474
2022-0310,8522,476
2022-0410,8602,478
2022-0510,8692,480
2022-0610,8772,482
2022-0710,8862,484
2022-0810,8942,486
2022-0910,8912,485
2022-1010,8902,485
2022-1110,8902,485
2022-1210,8892,485
2023-0110,8882,485
2023-0210,8882,485
2023-0310,8882,485
2023-0411,0102,513
2023-0510,9942,509
2023-0610,9782,505
2023-0710,9622,502
2023-0810,9462,498
2023-0910,9302,494
2023-1010,9152,491
2023-1110,8992,487
2023-1210,8842,484
2024-0110,8682,480
2024-0210,8532,477
2024-0310,9052,489
2024-0410,9332,495
2024-0510,8372,473
2024-0610,8822,483
2024-0710,9252,493
2024-0810,9712,504
2024-0911,1542,545
2024-1011,6402,656
2024-1112,2262,790
2024-1212,7882,918
2025-0113,4913,079
2025-0214,1243,223
2025-0314,7573,368
2025-0415,3563,504
2025-0515,9413,638
2025-0616,5723,782
2025-0717,1593,916
2025-0817,7144,042
2025-0918,2034,154
2025-1018,5544,234
2025-1118,6014,245
2025-1218,5494,233
2026-0118,5284,228
2026-0218,5364,230
2026-0318,6704,261
2026-0418,6504,256
2026-0518,5864,241
2026-0618,5604,236
2026-0718,4624,213
2026-0818,4094,201
2026-0918,4004,199

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 18,400each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.03%
companies running anything in Programming Languages and Runtimes
36,337,962
0.05%
companies running anything in Server-side programming languages
33,309,133
0.06%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Perl is rank 9 of 24 technologies in Server-side programming languages.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

Perl is a general-purpose programming language and interpreter.

Perl is a dynamic programming language used for scripting, text processing, and general-purpose development. It is maintained by The Perl Foundation and runs via an open-source interpreter on servers and desktops.

Kindproduct
VendorPerl, perl.org
Slugperl
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2019-10-04
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10