Interesting facts about Stack Overflow !

Stack Overflow is the most visited site by a  programmer or a developer, whenever as a developer or a normal software programmer we get stuck somewhere, the first thing that comes to our mind is none other than the Stack Overflow, the website that contains solution to most of our programming problems, whether it is related to some kind of errors, or some logical problems etc, as well we all know that it is a site that provides an interface for people all around to the world to ask questions regarding programming languages and get their answers in return, being a tech lover and mostly a blog owner, whenever I get stuck somewhere most numbers of times Stack Overflow get me out of the hole, because of the community who is there on the website provides the most suitable answers to your problems and the website select the answers based on other users votes.

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It is quite interesting to dig a bit deep into the Stack Overflow site to know some hidden facts about it, so yes I have decided to bring some unknown facts about the most loved site by Programmers.

• Stack Overflow was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in July 2008. 


• Stack Overflow is written in C#.Net using the ASP.Net MVC Architecture and uses the Microsoft's SQL Server for Database.


• According to a study that happened in 2013, has found that there are 77% of the user who asks only one question,65% only answer one question and only 8% of users answer more than 5 questions.


• In 2016,1.5 million posts were deleted, of which about 8% were deleted by moderators.


• Each and every question got a particular tag associated with it and according to the tag associated with questions, the top 8 most discussed topics are Java, JavaScript, PHP, Android, Python, and HTML.


• The name of the website was chosen by voting in April 2008.


• Stack Overflow only accepts questions on programming that are strictly related to a specific problem.


• According to alexa.com the Global Rank of Stack Overflow is 54 and its rank in the USA is 53(at the time or writing this article).


• Indians are the second on the number of visitors list to the Stack Overflow site behind the United States(at the time or writing this article).


• Stack Overflow sites loads in 1.377 seconds, faster than 63% sites on the web(at the time or writing this article).

These were some of the facts related to Stack Overflow, as most of the time we only focus on facebook, YouTube and Google Only but whenever we get stuck somewhere technically we often have faith that the problem can be solved by visiting the one and only StackOverflow.com.

Source of Information: Wikipedia.org and alexa.com.