Internetworldstats.com updates its list of top ten internet languages...kind of

Internet usage per country in 2007.

A site called internetworldstats.com keeps track of internet users by country and language and is quite useful if you ever want to try to ascertain the future of a language in a certain region. At the moment languages like Japanese and German are reaching almost full capacity in that most people that speak these languages already have access to the internet, whereas ones like French, Spanish and Chinese are still far behind, meaning that they still have quite a bit of room for growth.

Their chart on the top ten internet languages is located here and they updated it a few days ago from the stats they were using from June 2008 to more recent numbers from December.

But!

The formatting is all messed up this time so it takes a bit of work to see what the chart is supposed to mean. Here's a post of mine from before with the stats from June, which gave the following:

TOP TEN LANGUAGES IN THE INTERNET	% of all Internet Users	Internet Users by Language
English	29.4 %	430,802,172
Chinese	18.9 %	276,216,713
Spanish	8.5 %	124,714,378
Japanese	6.4 %	94,000,000
French	4.7 %	68,152,447
German	4.2 %	61,213,160
Arabic	4.1 %	59,853,630
Portuguese	4.0 %	58,180,960
Korean	2.4 %	34,820,000
Italian	2.4 %	34,708,144
TOP 10 LANGUAGES	84.9 %	1,242,661,604
Rest of the Languages	15.1 %	220,970,757
WORLD TOTAL	100.0 %	1,463,632,361

(amongst other numbers)

The new chart seems to show the following for the languages:

• English - dropped from 29.4% to 28.7% (-0.7%)
• Chinese - rose from 18.9% to 20.4% (+1.5%)

...and the rest is messed up. Spanish apparently dropped by a few million, and the formatting is all wrong everywhere else. English and Chinese seem to have been entered correctly though, since those numbers are carrying on a trend that has been in motion for a few years now. I think English was somewhere in the high 30s back around 2006 or so when I started following the numbers.

Let me know if the chart is fixed and I'll update this post.