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Internet in Numbers 2020

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Last updated October 16th, 2020 by WebSitePulse in Industry News, Statistics

Global Internet Statistics in 2020

New statistics are available at Internet in Numbers 2021

“The Internet (or Internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.”Wikipedia.

Every year the internet grows vastly in the number of users, servers, websites, e-mail addresses, web applications, social networks, and the web traffic generated between them. Here are some internet statistics as of Q3 2020*.

Internet users in 20201

  • Number of internet users in Asia — 2.61 billon
  • Number of internet users in North America — 398.01 million
  • Number of internet users in Central America & Caribbean — 51.59 million
  • Number of internet users in South America — 274.49 million
  • Number of internet users in Europe — 664.23 million
  • Number of internet users in Africa — 474.64 million
  • Number of internet users in Australia & Oceania — 27.06 million

Internet users in 2020

 

Internet Usage Device Share 20202

  • Mobile users — 50.84%
  • Desktop users — 46.35%
  • Tablet users — 2.37%
  • Console users — 0.07%
  • Unknown — 0.37%

Internet platform market share 2020

 

Internet Users OS market share 20203

  • Android — 39.06%
  • Windows — 36.05%
  • iOS — 14.22%
  • OS X — 7.91%
  • Unknown — 1.30%
  • Linux — 0.87%
  • Other — 0.59%

Operating systems market share 2020

 

Browsers usage share 20204

  • Chrome — 65.52%
  • Safari — 17.22%
  • Firefox — 4.70%
  • Edge — 2.14%
  • Opera — 2.26%
  • Internet Explorer — 1.68%
  • Other — 6.48%

Browsers usage in 2020

 

Search Engine Usage 20205

  • Google — 92.17%
  • Bing — 2.78%
  • Yahoo — 1.60%
  • Yandex — 1.29%
  • Baidu — 0.92%
  • DuckDuckGo — 0.50%
  • Other — 0.74%

 

IP addresses by Country 2020 — Top 20206

  • USA — 1.578 billion
  • China — 344 million
  • Japan — 195 million
  • Germany — 131 million
  • U.K. — 117 million
  • Korea (Republic of) — 113 million
  • Brazil — 88 million
  • France — 82 million
  • Canada — 70 million
  • Australia — 67 million
  • Italy — 56 million
  • Netherlands — 52 million
  • Russian Federation — 45 million
  • India — 44 million
  • Taiwan — 36 million
  • Spain — 34 million
  • Mexico — 29 million
  • Sweden — 28 million
  • South Africa — 27 million
  • Egypt — 24 million

 

Web Hosting Market Share 2020 — Top 107

  • GoDaddy Web Hosting — 16.95% / 1720 K hosted domains
  • Google Cloud Web Serving — 9.73% / 987 K hosted domains
  • AWS Web Hosting — 8.47% / 859 K hosted domains
  • 1&1 Hosting — 5.56% / 563 K hosted domains
  • Hostgator — 3.52% / 357 K hosted domains
  • BlueHost — 2.91% / 295 K hosted domains
  • Liquidweb — 2.42% / 245 K hosted domains
  • Hetzner — 2.21% / 224 K hosted domains
  • DigitalOcean — 2.06% / 209 K hosted domains
  • WP Engine — 2.06% / 208 K hosted domains
  • Other — 44.11%

Top 10 web hosting services in 2020

 

Top 20 TLDs 20208

  • .com — 149.8 million
  • .tk — 25.1 million
  • .cn — 15.5 million
  • .de — 14.9 million
  • .net — 13.3 million
  • .org — 10.3 million
  • .uk — 10.3 million
  • .nl — 5.3 million
  • .icu — 5.2 million
  • .ru — 4.8 million
  • .ga — 4.6 million
  • .cf — 4.2 million
  • .info — 4.2 million
  • .ml — 3.8 million
  • .br — 3.7 million
  • .fr — 3.5 million
  • .eu — 3.5 million
  • .gq — 3.4 million
  • .it — 2.9 million
  • .au — 2.9 million

 

Website Building Platform Share 20209

  • Total number of live websites — 1.79 billion
  • No CMS — 39.40%
  • WordPress — 38.50%
  • Shopify — 3.00%
  • Joomla — 2.30%
  • Drupal — 1.50%
  • Wix — 1.50%
  • Squarespace — 1.40%
  • Bitrix — 1.00%
  • Blogger — 1.00%
  • Magento — 0.70%
  • OpenCart — 0.60%
  • PrestaShop — 0.50%
  • Other — 8.60%

 

Number of websites build on given CMS 202010

  • Total number of websites built on CMS — 55.7 million
  • WordPress — 27 million
  • WIX — 3.8 million
  • Squarespace — 2.34 million
  • Joomla — 1.62 million

 

Global market share of cloud infrastructure services 202011

  • Amazon Web Services — 33%
  • Microsoft — 18%
  • Google — 9%
  • Other — 40%

 

Most Common Issues that caused downtime in 202012

  • Security flaws — 64%
  • Human error — 60%
  • Bugs/flaws in software — 40%
  • Configuration complexity — 35%
  • Server hardware too old/inadequate — 24%
  • I.T. dept. is understaffed/overworked — 22%
  • Integration/interoperability issues — 22%
  • Lack of support for crucial apps — 19%
  • Server instability problem — 15%
  • Server O.S. too old — 15%
  • I.T. lacks training/certification — 14%
  • Bring your own device (BYOD) — 14%
  • Poor vendor tech support — 11%
  • Mobility — 9%
  • Edge computing — 9%

Top issues caused downtime in 2020

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Use a third-party uptime monitoring service to get alerted first when your network, server, or website is down to minimize your costs.

 

E-mails 202013,14,15

  • Total e-mail users — 4.037 billion
  • Total sent/received e-mails — 306.4 billion
  • Spam of total e-mail traffic — 53.95%

 

E-mail spam by country 202016

  • Russia — 20.74%
  • USA — 9.64%
  • Germany — 9.41%
  • France — 6.29%
  • China — 5.22%
  • Brazil — 3.56%
  • Netherlands — 3.38%
  • Vietnam — 2.55%
  • Spain — 2.34%
  • Poland — 2.21%
  • Other — 34.66%

 

Messaging apps users per month 202017

  • WhatsApp — 2 billion
  • Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion
  • WeChat — 1.203 billion
  • Q.Q. — 694 million
  • Telegram — 400 million
  • Snapchat — 398 million

 

Social Media Market Share 202018

  • Facebook — 74.17%
  • Pinterest — 11.68%
  • Twitter — 6.78%
  • YouTube — 4.86%
  • Instagram — 1.35%
  • Other — 1.16%

 

Social Media Active Visitors per Month 202019

  • Facebook — 2.603 billion
  • YouTube — 2 billion
  • Instagram — 1.082 billion
  • TikTok — 800 million
  • Sina Weibo — 550 million
  • Qzone — 517 million
  • Reddit — 430 million
  • Kuaishou — 400 million
  • Snapchat — 398 million
  • Pinterest — 367 million
  • Twitter — 326 million
  • Total users 20 — 3.96 billion

 


*The exact numbers keep changing every second.

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