The top 25 websites from the 2025 Web Globalization Report Card
This is the 21st year of the Web Globalization Report Card. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Such as Wikipedia emerging on top, with support for …
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Is Apple about to prioritize localization and expand its linguistic reach?
Apple’s recent developer newsletter caught my eye because, for once, localization was featured at the top: Apple is providing free training sessions focused on Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan …
The top 25 global websites from the 2024 Web Globalization Report Card
Twenty years ago, Wikipedia was just a few years old and available in about a dozen languages. Today, Wikipedia supports more than 300 languages and has emerged on top of …
The Year of the Dragon
As we say farewell to the Year of the Rabbit we greet the Year of the Dragon. And, with it, my whirlwind tour of global and local websites taking advantage …
The best 25 global websites from the 2023 Web Globalization Report Card
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the 2023 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the 19th annual edition of the Report Card, yes, 19th. And while there are a number …
The Year of the Rabbit
Lunar New Year is here and, with it, my whirlwind tour of global and local websites taking full advantage of this holiday. Here was my tour last year of the …
Why Adobe is one of the best global websites
For the 2022 Web Globalization Report Card, we benchmarked the following 16 consumer technology websites: Adobe Apple Canon Dell Fujifilm HP Lenovo LG Microsoft Nikon Nintendo Panasonic Samsung Sony Toshiba Xiaomi …
Neural machine translation is unlocking website content and connecting the world
The fact that neural machine translation has the word “machine” in it should tell you that this technology has been evolving for a very long time, to back when computers …
The top 25 global websites from the 2022 Web Globalization Report Card
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the 2022 Web Globalization Report Card. This is the 18th annual edition of the Report Card, and it reflects another difficult year. And yet …
How to organize a global website when you’re just beginning to go global
This blog post originated from an email I received recently from someone starting a small business and wondering how to manage all those newly localized websites. Specifically: Should I make …
Black Friday: The global retail holiday
Black Friday originated as a sales event specific to the US, the day following Thanksgiving. It has long been the busiest shopping day of the year, though it now extends …
Apple web localization in India appears to be working
I always perk up when I see data that supports web localization. According to this article, Apple launching a dedicated ecommerce website for India last year led to a significant …
Apple Translate expands to iPad and across apps
Apple may have been late to the machine translation game but they’re working to make up for lost time. They announced today that the Apple Translate app is coming to …
The future best practices from the leading global websites
Join me on June 10th for a virtual LocWorldWide44 presentation on future best practices in website globalization. Drawing on findings from the 2021 Web Globalization Report Card, I will share …
Russia mandates locally made apps on mobile devices
What was for many years a threat has now become a reality — a Russian law requiring mobile phone manufacturers to ship with preinstalled Russian-made apps (or allow them to …