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 Usage Device Share 2020²

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

 

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%

 

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%

 

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 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%

Pro tip:

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 2020^13,14,15

• 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

 

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^*The exact numbers keep changing every second.

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