Web Browsers/Web Servers: Curl, Edge Spyware, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2023

• curl user survey 2023 analysis

  The curl user survey 2023 ran for two full weeks in the end of May, in the same fashion we run it every year.

  I have then collected all the answers, ran the numbers and looked at the trends and put all the conclusions and graphs into a single document for everyone to enjoy.

• curl user survey analysis 2023

  If you are in too much of a hurry to read it all, here are five key facts this year’s survey revealed:

  1. curl users leave Twitter and join Mastodon in quite notable amounts.

  2. Windows 11 is growing quickly as a platform curl users are on

  3. HTTP/3 is used by a quarter of all curl users

  4. WebSocket reached the top-10 of most used protocols before its firth birthday

  5. The positive comments in section 21 are heart-warming

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