Ask Google: Python Web Framework Statistics
| search-term | web | groups | blog | amazon.com-search |
| python zope | 8,920,000 | 20,700 | 2,294 | 9 |
| python plone | 2,730,000 | 2,420 | 784 | 2 |
| python twisted | 2,010,000 | 14,500 | 1,396 | 4 |
| python subway | 714,000* | 2,380* | 626 | 4 |
| python aquarium | 659,000* | 4,340* | 505 | 7 |
| python django | 543,000 | 2,660 | 1,055 | 0 |
| python turbogears | 363,000 | 1,600 | 623 | 0 |
| python cherrypy | 250,000 | 2,420 | 391 | 1 |
| python quixote | 236,000 | 1,240 | 211 | 1 |
| python pylons | 111,000 | 593 | 23 | 0 |
| python webware | 107,000 | 929 | 126 | 0 |
| python karrigell | 70,500 | 166 | 91 | 0 |
| python myghty | 45,700 | 82 | 59 | 0 |
| python skunkweb | 40,100 | 165 | 38 | 0 |
| python web.py | 25,900 | 98 | 93 | 0 |
| python snakelets | 901 | 89 | 28 | 0 |
| search-term | web | groups | blog | amazon.com-search |
| ruby rails | 11,500,000 | 10,100 | 21,266 | 13 |
| java struts | 8,350,000 | 43,200 | 14,373 | 47 |
| perl catalyst | 1,780,000 | 7,120 | 1,131 | 1 |
| perl mason | 1,170,000 | 9,870 | 532 | 5 |
| java webwork | 970,000 | 924 | 1,134 | 5 |
Update: 1) added Karrigell 2) Changed “webpy” to “web.py” and updated results (see comments).
This was quick, manual work, spending some quality time at Ye Ol’ Google. Would someone like to build an interactive, real-time, database driven website for this stuff? Kind of like NetCraft, but just for Python web frameworks. 
My personal favorite would be to build this in Django, but I’m sure those catnipped TurboGearHeads will beat me to the bunch. 
I might actually try to do this in Zope 3.2, just because I’ve been convinced (see below) to give it another try by some very nice people.
Ironically “python aquarium” got *lots* of hits… apparently lots more people put real pythons in real aquariums, not the software kind. And for “python subway”, I’m sure there lots of stories about huge snakes in the New York subway system.
And yes, my categories were a little arbitrary (Plone is built on Zope, which is now on Twisted, TurboGears is built on CherryPy, Pylons is built with Myghty, etc.)
I have a sneaky suspicion that Pylons and Myghty are “rising stars”, so some trend statistics would be nice to see the delta on these stats over time.
Yes, I left out PHP, on purpose.
For some exits, please read the following 3 posts:
“Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Write Your Own Web Framework”
“Zope, flames and the Koolaid remark”
And this great comment sent to me on why Zope 3 deserves a seat at the table.
Peace, Love, and Pythonically Yours,
- Jason
P.S. I eagerly await the “But you forgot framework X!” comments. If your pet framework was missed, sorry! I’ll go back to check Guido’s (now epic) post on frameworks to search for more framework names.
February 9th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
There’s more Zope than Struts?! Here in my town I never heard of anyone using Zope, but Struts I always hear someone saying something…
February 9th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Karrigell is also great python web app. framework!
http://karrigell.sourceforge.net/
February 9th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
I’ll add Karrigell… here are the stats for it:
web: 70,500
groups: 166
blog: 91
amazon.com books: 0
February 9th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Hmmm… I think I should have searched for “webpy” to “web.py”… web search results go from the (surprisingly bottom basement - 803) to the (*next* to bottom basement) value of 25,900. (Sorry, Snakelets.) Searching for “web.py” in groups search goes from 28 to 98, blog search from 29 to 93… And I won’t bother rechecking the book count.
February 9th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Not a web framework in the way that people generally talk about the term, but you probably should include mod_python.
Search term: mod_python
web: 2,530,000
groups: 4,450