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There are about 1.74 billion websites on the internet, although only about 85% are inactive.
That’s amazing when you consider that the internet didn’t even exist 30 years ago. On August 6, 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the very first website. It was a website with information on the World Wide Web. It was very simple and just offered a summary of the project, the people involved, and some technical details.
It still exists – you can see it if you look up the CERN archives. After this first website, things progressed quickly. The next year, 1992, saw the number of websites increase by over 900% or ten new websites. After 1992, the number of websites increased exponentially. Amazon launched in 1995, Google joined the web in September of 1998, and YouTube and Reddit joined the party in 2005. Along the way, many websites disappeared, such as AOL and MySpace. Today, Google is the number one search engine and has become a verb in its own right. People often respond to questions by saying, “I don’t know. I’ll Google it.”
The Top Ten Website Statistics
- The average internet user spends an average of 6 hours and 43 minutes online
- Google processes 7 billion search engine requests every day
- 56% of all internet traffic is from automated sources, such as hacking tools and bots
- Digital media is expected to generate 51% (240 billion dollars) of all the money spent globally
- WordPress powers 5% of all websites on the internet
- 40% of all consumers will leave a webpage if it takes longer than three seconds to load
- 71% of shoppers believe they can find a better deal on the internet than in a store
- Amazon makes more than 49% of all online sales
- Cybercrime will cost $6 trillion annually by 2021
- One in every 131 emails contains malware
What Do You Want To Know?
Number Of Websites Globally Statistics
How Long Does The Average User Spend On The Internet?
- The average consumer spends over six hours every day online, and half of that time is on mobile devices.
- What are they doing? Users spend a lot of time on social media, on websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok. That adds up to more than 100 days online for every internet user per year.
- We are almost literally spending half of our lives online (we have to sleep sometime). People also watch online videos and play games. They even watch live streams of other people playing games.
How Many Requests Does Google Process Every Day?
- Google receives about 63,000 requests per second every single day, or 7 billion requests a day. The average person turns to Google at least three or four times a day.
- Google is a misspelling of Googol, which is the number one with a hundred zeros behind it. The term conveys that Google has an infinite number of answers.
- A fun fact is that more than 80% of Google searches are made by Google staff trying to develop and perfect their algorithms.
What Percentage Of All Internet Traffic Is Automated?
- Fifty-six percent of all internet traffic represents automated sources such as hackers and bots. That means only 48.2% of all internet traffic comes from human beings.
- Some of these bots are just doing their jobs, like ranking Google results or refreshing webpages. However, some of them are malicious bots, spreading viruses, or mining personal information to sell to unscrupulous people.
How Much Money Will Digital Media Generate In The Coming Year?
- Digital media will generate about 240 billion dollars or 51% of all the money spent throughout the world. That’s a huge amount of money to be made on the internet.
- To make the most money possible, you’ll need to rank highly in a Google search, because 51% of shoppers Google something before purchasing anything
- To rank highly, employ the tactics of SEO, or search engine optimization. These days, many people both read content and make purchases on their phones, so content needs to be in easily digestible chunks.
- Eighty-one percent of Americans own a smartphone, an increase of 46% compared to six years ago.
How Many Websites Are Powered By WordPress?
- WordPress powers 34% of all websites. Many websites use WordPress, from everyday bloggers to huge brands like Sony, Walt Disney, the BBC, and the New Yorker.
- What’s interesting is that volunteers run WordPress—it doesn’t even have a CEO. WordPress is a content management system (CMS), and people like it because it creates easy-to-read websites that can be anything consumers want it to be.
- You can post pictures, sell goods, report news, or anything else you need. WordPress is also easy to update, which is extremely important in keeping consumers’ or readers’ attention.
- Over 400 million people visit a WordPress powered website every month.
How Long Will Someone Wait For A Website To Load Before They Leave?
- Forty percent of people will wait three seconds or less before leaving a website.
- There are millions and millions of websites online, and consumers just don’t have the patience for slow-loading websites. It’s easier just to click the next result returned by Google.
- Slow websites mean a loss of sales and opportunities. Most visitors don’t come back later to see if your site is faster—they’re going to a new website that loads more quickly. Also, slow websites decrease customer satisfaction (assuming they stuck around in the first place).
How Many People Believe They Can Find A Better Deal Online?
- Seventy-one percent of people believe they can find a better deal online than they can in a brick-and-mortar store.
- They’re probably right. The internet makes it easy to comparison shop, and there are a huge number of apps and extensions that can help consumers find the best price or offer coupons.
- RetailMeNot, for example, offers coupons for hundreds of businesses that can only be found by going to their website. They work directly with retailers to provide this service. Shipping costs sometimes deter consumers, so if your website offers free shipping, you’re ahead of the game.
How Dominant Is Amazon?
- Amazon makes more than 49% of all online sales.
- Amazon launched in 1995 and only sold books at first. Jeff Bezos, the founder, originally wanted to call it Cadabra (as in, Abra Cadabra) because he thought it gave it a magical sounding name. His lawyer talked him out of that, though, because he said it sounded too similar to Cadaver, which was not the image they were going for.
- Not only does Amazon sell almost everything, in keeping with Bezos’s vision of being an everything store, they also offer a vast number of their own products. Kindle, Alexa, and hundreds of Amazon created brands sell millions of dollars’ worth of products each year.
- Selling Kindles, which consumers can then use to buy e-books from Amazon, was a stroke of genius.
How Much Is Cybercrime Costing Us?
- Cybercrime will cost more than $6 trillion annually by 2021.
- This figure is up from $3 trillion in 2015. Cybercrime is also the greatest threat to every company in the world. Cybercrime is any crime committed with a computer, for everything from the sale of illicit goods to phishing scams trying to data-scrape credit card information.
- Cybercrime is rising steadily every year, and criminals are getting more sophisticated. Cyberattacks are the fastest growing crime in the U.S. Thus, the importance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated.
One Out Of Every 131 Emails Contains Malware
- On the face of it, this doesn’t seem terrible, until you remember that you personally probably get at least 131 emails every day. That means at least once a day, a criminal is after your information or is actively trying to spread malware.
- Covid-19 has increased cybercrime by 600%.
- You’ve certainly received some of these emails – they mimic a well-known company such as Netflix or Amazon and say there is some problem with your account. Then they offer a link for you to click, at which point they can gather your account information.
- Most of the time, you don’t fall for it, but people do. Every day, 38% of people who don’t undergo some type of cyber awareness training fall for a phishing email scam.
The Future Of The Internet
Our digital lives will define more and more of our identity in the future. It’s even possible that our world will be a combination of reality and virtual reality, and it might be hard to tell which is which.
One thing is for sure: the internet is here to stay.
