Hosting Stats & Facts for 2016
Let’s have a look at the latest internet, e-commerce and hosting stats & facts for 2016. This infographic prepared by Hosting Facts, includes the most important facts and statistics covering the entire globe.
Internet Statistics 2016
- There are 3.26 billion internet users as at December 2015; that’s over 40% of the world population.
- China has the highest number of internet users (640 million)
- Digital interactions influences retail sales to the tune of $2.2 trillion in 2015
- Facebook has 1.55 billion active users
- 2.9 billion google searches are made every day
- 2.7 million blog posts are published every day
Domain Name Statistics
- .com is the world’s number one domain extension
- There are over 123.78 million registered .com domain names
- The .com TLD accounts for 50% of all registered domain names
- There are a total of 1096 TLD’s
- The most expensive domain name ever sold is insurance.com for $35.6 million in 2010
Hosting / Website Statistics & Facts
- First website was published in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee
- WordPress is responsible for 76.5 million blogs
- 37 000 websites are hacked every day
- Google is the world’s biggest website, followed by Facebook and Youtube
- There are over 966 million websites in the world today
- WordPress is the most popular CMS
- The highest number of websites to ever exist was 1 billion (record was achieved in September 2014)
- 56% internet traffic comes from robots, spammers & scrapers
- 44% internet traffic is human
E-Commerce & Conversion Statistics
- 7% of a one second delay in site loading time will lead to loss in conversion
- 40% of people will abandon your website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load
- 51% of US online shoppers abandon a purchase because of a slow website
- 40% of shoppers consult 3 or more channels before making a purchase
- 97% of users abandon mobile shopping carts, compared to around 70-75% for desktop users
- More than 1 billion people have bought products online
- The US e-commerce economy is worth $349 billion
- China’s e-commerce economy is worth $562.66 billion
- Slow loading sites cost the US e-commerce market more than $500 billion annually
- 8/10 consumers will shop online if free shipping is available
- Internet visits from desktop lead to more sales than visits from other devices
- Increasing your website speed from 8 to 2 seconds can increase your conversion rate by 74%
Mobile Internet Statistics & Facts
- 48% of mobile users start their search on search engines
- Google now uses mobile compatibility as a ranking factor
- 4/5 consumers use a smart-phone to shop
- 70% of mobile searches result in an online action within an hour of the search being conducted
- 50% of mobile users will abandon a web page if it takes more than 10 seconds  to load, 60% won’t return to the site
- There are 52.7% more mobile users worldwide than desktop users
- 75.1% of US internet users access the internet through a mobile device
- In 2015, mobile influenced retail sales to the tune of $1 trillion
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Those are some fascinating statistics. I wasn’t aware that there are now more mobile browsers than desktop browsers in the world. That’s very surprising, since I exclusively use my desktop/laptop to browse.