A web hosting service provides you with a place where your websites are hosted, or stored, on special computers called servers.
When Internet users want to view your website, all they need to do is type your website address or domain into their browser. Their computer will then connect to the server where your webpages are stored and then it will be delivered to them through the browser.
Here is some web hosting statistics and facts that you should know as a blogger or a webmaster.
Most hosting companies require that you own your domain name in order to host with them. If you do not have a domain, the hosting companies will help you purchase one. Bluehost offers a free domain name along with its hosting.
Facts, Figures & Statistics That You Should Know
(Internet, Hosting, SEO, Social Media, and more)
Here are some interesting stats and facts about the Internet and Web hosting.
- Most of the internet users are from Asia, however, the majority of web hosting providers are in North America. (Approx 5000). (Source: Hosting Tribunal)
- There are over 330,000 web hosting providers available around the world.
- The largest web hosting as per the number of hosted sites is GoDaddy, it holds nearly 15.2% of the market, followed by Amazon AWS, 1&1, Hostgator, and Bluehost with nearly 4%. (Source: Hosting Advice)
- WordPress is the leading content management system with 63% market share and 36.2% of all websites built with it. (Source: W3Techs)
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Joomla, the 2nd most widely used CMS, has a market share of 5.7%.(Source: W3Techs)
- There are over 4.5 billion Internet users across the world. This data is very dynamic, and the number is growing every day. (Source: Internet World Stats)
- With an increase in mobile users, it will generate nearly 60% of all online traffic in 2020 and increase exponentially. (Source: HostingTribunal)
- There are over 1.77 billion websites around the world. (Source: Internet Live Stats)
- English is the most used language on websites (W3Techs)
- In China, internet users are double the population of the U.S. and also more than the combination of the population of the total of U.S., Russia, Japan, and Mexico. (Source: TechCrunch)
- It’s been reported that almost 100% of Iceland’s citizens use the internet, making it the country with the highest internet penetration in the world.(Source: HostSorter)
- In the U.S 80% of Internet users are relied upon buying online. (Source: HostingFacts)
- The percentage of Chinese mobile internet users is 98% (Source: Statista)
- More than 5.6 billion Google searches are made every day. (Source: SERPWatch)
- More than 4.4 million new blogs start every single day. (Source: TechJury)
- More than 500 million tweets are posted each day. (Source: HostingFacts)
- Iceland has 100% of the population on the Web. (Source: HostSorter)
- Kuwait is the country with the second-highest penetration of Internet users, with 99.6%. (Source: Internet World Stats)
- The dedicated hosting market is more than 6.5 billion dollars. (Source: HostingTribunal)
- Shared hosting market is more than 22 billion dollars. (Source: HostingTribunal)
- VPS hosting market is growing at a faster pace and is expected to have an 8 billion dollars market size by 2023. (Source: HostingTribunal)
- The Cloud computing and hosting market is more than 156 billion dollars in market size. (Source: HostingTribunal)
- 8% of SMEs and 24% of enormous undertakings are presently utilizing a private cloud framework. (Source: Europa)
- In India, 462 million users are on the Internet; however, it is only 34.4% of the total population. (Source: Web Hosting Insider)
- The 4-second deferral in the page load brings about the loss (11.02%) of online visits. (Source: Optimizely)
- A 20-second delay in page load brings about the loss of 44.19% of online visits. (Source: Optimizely)
- More users access the Internet with a Chrome browser (64.45%) than any other browser. (Source: statcounter)
- More users access the Internet with an Android device (38.9%) than any other desktop or mobile device. (Source: statcounter)
- The average Internet user spends 6.5 hours online every day. (Source: We Are Social Global Digital Report 2019)
- 70% of the time spent on YouTube is through users’ mobile devices. (Source: YouTube)
- GoDaddy provides over 77 million domain names.(Source: Hostsorter)
- GoDaddy owns 15.2% market share of websites (Source: Hostsorter)
- More than half of all internet users are accessing the web from their mobile devices (Source: Hostsorter)
- The United States is home to more web servers than any other country, with 42.8%. (Source: W3Techs)
- More than 4 million blog posts are published on the internet each day.
- If a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, then more than half of people visiting the site on their mobile will abandon the site, according to Google.
- The share of.COM TLDs is height among all other TLDs around the world. (Source: Hostersorter)
- 30,000 sites are hacked /compromised each day. (Source: WebARX)
- Pages must fill inside 1000 milliseconds to keep up a client’s consideration. (Source: Kinsta)
- About half or 50% of sites that are hosted today are on Apache or Nginx which are free or open-source servers. (Source: Web Hosting Rating)
- WordPress powers more than 32% of the websites present on the Internet. (Source: Web Hosting Rating)
- WordPress is the topmost hacked CMS — by a percentage of 83 of the hacked websites which are utilizing the WordPress stage. (Source: Info Security Magzine)
- The most famous of the content management systems, which is also known as CMS include Drupal, Joomla and even WordPress, which dominates having 60% market share. (Source: Kinsta)
- The world’s leading 50 internet business sites have a normal page load of 2.51 seconds speed. The quickest of those heaps is within 0.457 seconds.(Source: NA)
- For each 1 second of progress in its site pages load speed and Walmart.com was experienced capable of a 2% expansion in changes. (Source: WPOStats)
- Iceland is the nation with the most elevated market infiltration, with practically 100% of the populace on the Web. (Source: HostSorter)
- Fifty thousand new web journals are added with WordPress every day. (Source: N/A)
- There are 3.8 billion active social media users around the globe. (Source: Statista)
- There are over 140 million businesses that use Facebook and its associated properties (i.e. Instagram, Messenger, etc.) every month. (Source: Facebook)
- Over 100 billion messages are sent and 1 billion stories are shared through Facebook products every day. (Source: Facebook)
- 70% of the time spent on YouTube is through users’ mobile devices. (Source: YouTube)
- 20% of online shoppers have bought something because a social influencer recommended it. (Source: Adobe 2019 Holiday Shopping Trends report)
- The 3 most popular social media and messaging platforms are (in millions): Facebook with 2,449,000+ users
YouTube with 2,000,000+ users
WhatsApp with 1,600,000+ users - 47% of all global retail sales are made online. (Source: Think with Google)
- There are 2.05 billion people who shop online. (Source: Statista)
Conclusion
Success in any business (blogging, affiliate marketing, Freelancing, etc.) depends on the information, that is, facts and figures you have, to make proper decisions for your business growth.
A single decision can make or break your business. And with the statistics and figures that I compiled above, hopefully, you can make strategies that will help take your business to new heights.
If you find this article helpful, Do let me know in the comment section. I also welcome all feedback and opinions.
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