It sounds like you are referring to a website called "The Hammer Principle" formerly hosted at hammerprinciple.com. The website went down shortly after the owner had collected all the data they wanted.

I collected a bunch of the data in a spreadsheet in March 2014 before the website went down. It covered 51 programming languages and 15 statements about them such as:

* Easy to tell what code does

* Language is expressive

* Code is very readable

* Code written is elegant

* I enjoy using this language

* I choose to use this language

* I would like to write more

* I can be sure code is correct

* This is a high level language

* Code is easy to maintain

* Encourages reusable code

* It is easy to write efficient code

* Code tends to be efficient

* Code tends to be reliable

* This language is good for teaching children

Interesting! https://web.archive.org/web/20170412144310/http://www.hammer...

Looks like it was online longer than I thought and had a lot more questions added after March 2014.

Yes! That's the one!

Perhaps this one?[0]

It doesn't match exact description and I also have vague memory of something similar, but not able to find it right now. Drew's post does a reasonably snarky job though :)

0: https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/08/Enough-to-decide.html

I'll have to read that. I seem to remember the page having orange elements like HN's, and the language rankings were displayed in tables. I thought it was a really good idea, although I have no idea when or how the initial survey was conducted. The ranking was pretty comprehensive both in the range of questions and the number of languages (although you'd have to wonder how many respondents had any experience with languages like Io or Oz.)