• 24% of Web Content is Now in Chinese, Will Soon Surpass English [Infographic] Posted: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:10 +0000 The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. A new infographic shows that Chinese will soon overtake English as the dominant language online. At the end of 2011, 27 percent of web content was in English, while 24 percent was in Chinese. Despite that, the graphic’s creators, the translation management platform Smartling, lament that the web is still too monolingual, with “56 percent of online content [being] English-only.” It calls for a more multilingual approach to the web. We’ve taken the liberty of using some of the main images from the infographic and put them below, but you really want to check out the full thing in all its interactive and multilingual glory on the Smartling site. First up, here’s how the web stands in Asia right now, with this region accounting for 45 percent of all the world’s web users, even though only 26 percent of the 3.5 billion people based in Asia are yet online. That’s room for some amazing growth:
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