“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 and social media statistics and numbers from 2022^*.

Internet users in 2022¹

• Internet users in Asia — 2.93 bln
• Internet users in North America — 444.06 mln
• Internet users in the Caribbean — 27.92 mln
• Internet users in South America — 310 mln
• Internet users in Europe — 750.04 mln
• Internet users in Africa — 652.86 mln
• Internet users in Australia & Oceania — 31.19 mln

 

Fastest median mobile download speed by country in 2022²

1. Norway — 122.77 Mbps
2. UAE — 118.4 Mbps
3. Qatar — 114.28 Mbps
4. South Korea — 112.26 Mbps
5. Denmark — 103.5 Mbps
6. Netherlands — 102.06 Mbps
7. Bulgaria — 95.76 Mbps
8. Kuwait — 94.86 Mbps
9. China — 92.53 Mbps
10. Saudi Arabia — 91.81 Mbps

Slowest median mobile download speed by country in 2022²

1. Cuba — 4.15 Mbps
2. Afghanistan — 5.34 Mbps
3. Venezuela — 5.37 Mbps
4. Tajikistan — 7.79 Mbps
5. Ghana — 7.93 Mbps
6. Yemen — 8.24 Mbps
7. Somalia — 9.62 Mbps
8. Sudan — 10.35 Mbps
9. Bangladesh — 10.42 Mbps
10. Cote D'ivoire — 10.49 Mbps

Fastest median fixed download speed by country in 2022²

1. Singapore — 219.01 Mbps
2. Chile — 211.43 Mbps
3. Thailand — 188.75 Mbps
4. Hong Kong — 179.58 Mbps
5. China — 178.73 Mbps
6. USA — 167.4 Mbps
7. Macau — 157.54 Mbps
8. Denmark — 156.06 Mbps
9. New Zeland — 133.44 Mbps
10. Japan — 131.86 Mbps

Slowest median fixed download speed by country in 2022²

1. Afghanistan — 1.9 Mbps
2. Cuba — 1.92 Mbps
3. Turkmenistan — 2.18 Mbps
4. Yemen — 2.72 Mbps
5. Syria — 3.06 Mbps
6. Ethiopia — 4.06 Mbps
7. Niger — 4.23 Mbps
8. Sudan — 4.6 Mbps
9. Timor-Leste — 4.83 Mbps
10. Burundi — 5.07 Mbps

Internet usage device share 2022³

• Mobile users — 58.55%
• Desktop users — 39.34%
• Tablet users — 2.08%
• Console users — 0.03%

 

Internet users OS market share 2022⁴

• Android — 44.60%
• Windows — 29.18%
• iOS — 17.24%
• OS X — 6.03%
• Unknown — 2.15%
• Linux — 1.15%

Compared to 2021, people using Android jumped over 5%. Windows users have dropped by nearly 3 percent, and iOS users are pretty much the same.

 

Browsers usage share 2022⁵

• Chrome — 64.68%
• Safari — 18.29%
• Firefox — 4.23%
• Samsung — 3.05%
• Edge — 3.01%
• Opera — 2.25%
• UC Browser — 1.72%
• Android — 0.82%
• Internet Explorer — 0.28%
• Other — 1.67%

 

The main reason for using the Internet in 2022²

• Finding information — 58.4%
• Staying in touch with friends/family — 54.2%
• Keeping up-to-date with news/events — 50.8%
• Watching videos/tv shows/movies — 49.8%
• Researching how to do things — 48.1%
• Finding new ideas or inspiration — 44.4%
• Researching products/brands — 44%
• Accessing and listening to music — 43.5%
• Filling up spare time and general browsing — 41%
• Education and study-related purposes — 38.2%
• Researching places and vacations and travel — 36.2%
• Researching health issues and healthcare products — 34.8%
• Managing finances and savings — 34.5%
• Gaming — 30.4%
• Meeting new people and making new connections — 29.6%
• Business-related research — 29%
• Organizing your day-to-day life — 28.1%
• Sharing your opinion — 27.3%
• Business-related networking — 19.9%

 

Search Engine Usage 2022⁶

• Google — 92.20%
• Bing — 3.03%
• Yahoo — 1.22%
• Yandex — 0.85%
• Baidu — 0.65%
• DuckDuckGo — 0.58%
• Other — 1.47%

 

IP addresses by Country 2022 — Top 20⁷

• USA — 1.500 bln
• China  — 351 mln
• Japan  — 202 mln
• Germany  — 137 mln
• Korea (Republic of)  — 115 mln
• UK — 111 mln
• Brazil  — 92 mln
• France  — 82 mln
• Canada  — 74 mln
• Australia  — 57 mln
• Italy  — 57 mln
• Netherlands  — 54 mln
• India  — 47 mln
• Russian Federation  — 45 mln
• Spain  — 43 mln
• Taiwan (Province of China)  — 37 mln
• South Africa  — 31 mln
• Mexico  — 30 mln
• Sweden  — 29 mln
• Switzerland  — 27 mln

 

Web Hosting Market Share 2022 — Top 10⁸

• AWS Web Hosting — 16.99% / 1.42 mln hosted domains
• Google Cloud Web Serving — 8.38% / 699k hosted domains
• 1&1 Hosting — 7.27% / 606k hosted domains
• GoDaddy Web Hosting — 7.26% / 606k hosted domains
• Hostgator — 5.7% / 476k hosted domains
• BlueHost — 3.26% / 272k hosted domains
• Hetzner — 2.71% / 256k hosted domains
• Strato — 2.4% / 200k hosted domains
• NTENT — 2.32% / 193k hosted domains
• Liquidweb — 2.14% / 178k hosted domains
• Other — 41.57%

 

 

Top 20 TLDs 2022⁹

• .com  — 158.9 mln
• .de  — 16.4 mln
• .net  — 13 mln
• .org  — 10.7 mln
• .uk  — 10.5 mln
• .ga  — 8.8 mln
• .cn  — 7.2 mln
• .ml  — 6.8 mln
• .cf  — 6.3 mln
• .nl  — 6 mln
• .tk  — 5.2 mln
• .gq  — 5.2 mln
• .ru  — 4.8 mln
• .br  — 4.4 mln
• .fr  — 3.9 mln
• .au  — 3.8 mln
• .xyz  — 3.7 mln
• .info  — 3.7 mln
• .eu  — 3.6 mln
• .co  — 3.4 mln

 

Website Building Platform Share 2022¹⁰

• WP — 43.10%
• no CMS — 32.30%
• Shopify — 3.80%
• Wix — 4.20%
• Squarespace — 2.00%
• Joomla — 1.80%
• Drupal — 1.20%
• Adobe Systems — 1.10%
• Google Systems — 0.80%
• Bitrix — 0.80%
• PrestaShop — 0.70%
• OpenCart — 0.50%
• Other — 9.50%

 

Number of websites build on given CMS 2022 — Top 10¹¹

• The total number of websites built on CMS — 85.3 mln
• WordPress — 36.8 mln
• Wix — 8.2 mln
• Progress Sitefinity  — 3.9 mln
• Squarespace — 3 mln
• Google Search Appliance — 2.2 mln
• Plesk — 2.1 mln
• GoDaddy Website Builder — 1.9 mln
• CPanel — 1.9 mln
• Joomla — 1.3 mln
• Slack — 1.2 mln

 

Global market share of cloud infrastructure services 2022¹²

• Amazon Web Services — 33%
• Microsoft — 22%
• Google — 10%
• Other — 35%

 

 

Most visited websites Aug 2022²

Website	Total visits	Unique visitors	Time per visit	Pages per visit
google.com	80.1 bln	6.70 bln	22m 29s	3.69
youtube.com	66.2 bln	4.99 bln	34m 23s	6.84
facebook.com	13.5 bln	2.19 bln	23m 57s	2.90
pornhub.com	8.22 bln	1.69 bln	10m 53s	7.08
xvideos.com	6.92 bln	1.39 bln	12m 51s	7.60
twitter.com	6.37 bln	1.62 bln	21m 49s	1.86
wikipedia.org	6.02 bln	1.78 bln	11m 07s	2.10
instagram.com	4.25 bln	1.43 bln	18m 50s	2.24
amazon.com	4.19 bln	897 mln	17m 43s	4.34
reddit.com	4.06 bln	1.07 bln	17m 22s	3.03
xnxx.com	3.24 bln	810 mln	11m 05s	7.00
icloud.com	3.17 bln	253 mln	17m 19s	2.08
yahoo.com	3.06 bln	593 mln	18m 40s	3.44
yandex.ru	3.07 bln	337 mln	18m 23s	2.93
fandom.com	2.41 bln	744 mln	12m 52s	3.06
xhamster.com	2.07 bln	574 mln	14m 39s	6.61
weather.com	2.02 bln	871 mln	8m 42s	1.85
yahoo.co.jp	1.82 bln	187 mln	22m 19s	5.56
bing.com	1.78 bln	443 mln	14m 42s	3.17
tiktok.com	1.77 bln	810 mln	9m 53s	1.94

 

E-mails 2022^13,14,15

• Total e-mail users — 4.258 bln
• Total sent/received e-mails — 333.2 bln
• Spam of total e-mail traffic — 56.50%

 

Daily numbers of spam e-mails sent Worldwide 2022 - Top 10¹⁶

• US — 8 bln
• Czechia — 7.7 bln
• Netherlands — 7.6 bln
• France — 7.5 bln
• Russia — 7.4 bln
• Germany — 7.1 bln
• Canada — 7 bln
• Ukraine — 7 bln
• China — 7 bln
• UK — 6.9 bln

 

Mailservers by country 2022 — 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 2022¹⁸

• WhatsApp — 2 bln
  
• WeChat — 1.3 bln
• FB Messenger — 976 mln
• Telegram — 700 million
• Snapchat — 576 million
• QQ — 569 million

 

Social Media Market Share 2022¹⁹

• Facebook — 66.93%
• Twitter — 12.34%
• Pinterest — 6.05%
• Instagram — 9.62%
• YouTube — 3.61%
• LinkedIn — 0.53%
• Other — 0.92%

 

Social Media Active Visitors per Month 2022^20,2

• Facebook — 2.9 bln
• Youtube — 2.5 bln
• Instagram — 2 bln
• TikTok — 1 bln
• Douyin — 715 mln
• Kuaishou — 626 mln
• Sina Weibo — 584 mln
• Twitter — 556 mln
• Pinterest — 445 mln
• Reddit — 430 mln
• Quora — 300 mln
• Total users — 4.74 bln

 

Most popular domains in 2021²¹

1. Google.com
2. YouTube.com
3. Facebook.com
4. Twitter.com
5. Instagram.com
6. Baidu.com
7. Wikipedia.org
8. Yandex.ru
9. Yahoo.com
10. Whatsapp.com

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^*The exact numbers keep changing every second.

1Statista	2 Datareportal	3Statcounter
4Statcounter	5Statista	6Statcounter
7Domain Tools	8Datanyze	9Domain Tools
10W3Techs	11BuilthWith	12Statista
13Statista	14Statista	15WebTribunal
16Statista	17Domaintools	18MessengerPeople
19Statcounter	20Statista	21Shopify