New statistics are available at Internet in Numbers 2022

“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 the end of 2021^*.

Internet users in 2021¹

• Internet users in Asia — 2.83 billion
• Internet users in North America — 417.36 million
• Internet users in Central America & Caribbean — 51.64 million
• Internet users in South America — 296.74 million
• Internet users in Europe — 684.65 million
• Internet users in Africa — 520.35 million
• Internet users in Australia & Oceania — 29.42 million

 

Internet Usage Device Share 2021²

• Mobile users — 54.03%
• Desktop users — 43.46%
• Tablet users — 2.48%
• Console users — 0.03%

 

Internet Users OS market share 2021³

• Android — 39.32%
• Windows — 32.29%
• iOS — 16.80%
• OS X — 6.98%
• Unknown — 2.24%
• Chrome OS — 1.13%
• Other — 1.24%

Compared to 2020, people using Android are pretty much the same. However, Windows users have dropped by nearly 4 percent, and iOS users have increased by more than 2 percent.

 

Browsers usage share 2021⁴

• Chrome — 65.21%
• Safari — 18.42%
• Firefox — 3.67%
• Edge — 3.77%
• Samsung — 2.90%
• Opera — 2.32%
• Internet Explorer — 0.57%
• UC Browser — 1.05%
• Android — 0.58%
• Other — 1.51%

 

Search Engine Usage 2021⁵

• Google — 91.40%
• Bing — 3.14%
• Yahoo — 1.53%
• Yandex — 0.92%
• Baidu — 1.76%
• DuckDuckGo — 0.66%
• Other — 0.59%

 

IP addresses by Country 2021 — Top 20⁶

• USA — 1.433 billion
• China — 352 million
• Japan — 201 million
• Germany — 137 million
• Korea (Republic of) — 115 million
• U.K. — 104 million
• Brazil — 91 million
• France — 81 million
• Canada — 73 million
• Italy — 57 million
• Australia — 56 million
• Netherlands — 52 million
• Russian Federation — 46 million
• India — 46 million
• Spain — 44 million
• Taiwan — 37 million
• Mexico — 30 million
• South Africa — 30 million
• Sweden — 29 million
• Egypt — 24 million

 

Web Hosting Market Share 2021 — Top 10⁷

• GoDaddy Web Hosting — 17.25% / 2.47 mln hosted domains
• AWS Web Hosting — 10.37% / 1.48 mln hosted domains
• Google Cloud Web Serving — 8.07% / 1.15 mln hosted domains
• 1&1 Hosting — 6.02% / 861 K hosted domains
• Hostgator — 5.11% / 731 K hosted domains
• BlueHost — 3.49% / 499 K hosted domains
• Hetzner — 2.45% / 350 K hosted domains
• Liquidweb — 2.24% / 320 K hosted domains
• DigitalOcean — 2.23% / 319 K hosted domains
• WP Engine — 1.85% / 265 K hosted domains
• Other — 40.92%

 

 

Top 20 TLDs 2021⁸

• .com  — 158.5 million
• .de  — 15.8 million
• .net  — 13.2 million
• .uk  — 10.6 million
• .org  — 10.5 million
• .cn  — 9.8 million
• .ga  — 6.4 million
• .tk  — 5.6 million
• .nl  — 5.5 million
• .cf  — 5 million
• .ru  — 4.9 million
• .ml  — 4.7 million
• .br  — 4.2 million
• .gq  — 3.9 million
• .info  — 3.8 million
• .fr  — 3.8 million
• .eu  — 3.6 million
• .xyz  — 3.5 million
• .co  — 3.2 million
• .au  — 3.1 million

 

Website Building Platform Share 2021⁹

• Total number of live websites — 1.91 billion
• No CMS — 33.8%
• WordPress — 43.10%
• Shopify — 4.40%
• Wix — 1.90%
• Joomla — 1.80%
• Squarespace — 1.80%
• Drupal — 1.30%
• Blogger — 1.00%
• Bitrix — 0.90%
• Magento — 0.60%
• OpenCart — 0.60%
• PrestaShop — 0.50%
• Other — 8.30%

 

Number of websites build on given CMS 2021¹⁰

• The total number of websites built on CMS — 70.8 million
• WordPress — 30.5 million
• WIX — 7 million
• Progress Sitefinity — 3.2 million
• Squarespace — 2.7 million
• Joomla — 1.4 million

 

Global market share of cloud infrastructure services 2021¹¹

• Amazon Web Services — 33%
• Microsoft — 20%
• Google — 10%
• Other — 37%

 

 

E-mails 2021^13,14,15

• Total e-mail users — 4.047 billion
• Total sent/received e-mails — 319.6 billion
• Spam of total e-mail traffic — 45.10%

 

Daily numbers of spam e-mails sent Worldwide 2021 - Top 10¹⁶

• US — 8.61 billion
• China — 8.53 billion
• Russin Federation — 8.09 billion
• Brazil — 8.03 billion
• India — 7.97 billion
• Germany — 7.9 billion
• Czech Republic — 7.83 billion
• Poland — 7.77 billion
• Bulgaria — 7.73 billion
• UK — 7.71 billion

 

Mailservers by country 2021 — Top 10¹⁷

• US — 149.3 million
• Germany  — 13.2 million
• Netherlands  — 5.4 million
• UK — 3.5 million
• Russian Federation  — 2.7 million
• Italy  — 2.3 million
• France  — 1.7 million
• Canada  — 1.3 million
• Poland  — 1.2 million
• Japan  — 1.2 million

 

Messaging apps users per month 2021¹⁸

• WhatsApp — 2 billion^!
• Facebook Messenger — 1.3 billion^!
• WeChat — 1.251 billion
• Q.Q. — 591 million
• Telegram — 550 million
• Snapchat — 538 million

 

Most popular messenger apps worldwide by monthly downloads 2021¹⁹

• Snapchat — 46 million
• WhatsApp — 42 million
• FB Messenger — 30.5 million
• Telegram — 28.5 million
• WhatsApp Business — 22.3 million
• WeChat — 6.6 million

 

Social Media Market Share 2021²⁰

• Facebook — 74.09%
• Twitter — 7.73%
• Pinterest — 7.69%
• Instagram — 4.52%
• YouTube — 3.88%
• Other — 2.09%

 

Social Media Active Visitors per Month 2021²¹

• Facebook — 2.9 billion
• YouTube — 2.3 billion
• Instagram — 1.4 billion
• TikTok — 1 billion
• Sina Weibo — 566 million
• Snapchat — 538 million
• Kuaishou — 506 million
• Twitter — 463 million
• Pinterest — 454 million
• Total users — 4.55 billion

 

Most popular domains in 2021²²

1. TikTok.com
2. Google.com
3. Facebook.com
4. Microsoft.com
5. Apple.com
6. Amazon.com
7. Netflix.com
8. YouTube.com
9. Twitter.com
10. WhatsApp.com

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^*The exact numbers keep changing every second.

^!Have not published updated users numbers in the past 12 months.

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