The Web by Language

Do you ever wonder what role language barriers play in this disparity. This is an important question when one suspects that a significant majority of the web's content is in English. Does this mean that most of the Internet users are English speakers?
Not necessarily. The Chinese represent an estimated 10-20% of all web users, the largest single group based on estimates by Hang Lei, the founder of Chinese translation community Yeeyan. See Ethan Zuckerman's blog.

But Chinese language content is not proportionally represented in the Internet. We haven't found an authoratative source that has established the percentage of content by language on the Internet, but Wikipedia suggests that 80% of the content is in English, followed by German and Japanese.

One experiment described by Mr. Zuckerman leads us to believe that these numbers might be accurate. A simple Google search for the phrase "breast cancer" in English yields almost 39 million pages. The same search in Chinese yields only 6 million pages. But the quality of the content is much higher in the English searches.
The same search in Spanish only yields 1.2 million pages. This is only 3% of the amount of content in English.

If this is true, we can conclude that is a "massive imbalance" in the amount of content available per language.