In November 2023, the English version of Wikipedia received over 3 billion page views originating from the United States across all platforms. The United Kingdom was the country to generate the second-most page views for the subdomain, with 809.9 million views, followed by India, with 773.2 million visualizations.
As of July 2025, mobile phones accounted for **** percent of web page views in Saudi Arabia. The United Arab Emirates ranked second, with mobile devices generating approximately ***** percent of web traffic. Poland, Portugal, and Malaysia saw less than ** percent of their national internet traffic coming from mobile devices. Additionally, Russia ranked last for mobile internet traffic as of the middle of 2025, as ***** percent of the total internet traffic in the country came from smartphones and internet connected mobile devices.
In November 2024, WhatsApp.com was the most popular website in Spain by time per visit, with an average session length of approximately ** minutes and ** seconds. YouTube.com ranked second, with an average of ** minutes and ** seconds per visit. Despite being the leading website by total visits and unique visitors in the country, Google.com ranked fourth in engagement time, with ** minutes and ** seconds per session.
Mobile accounts for approximately half of web traffic worldwide. In the last quarter of 2024, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 62.54 percent of global website traffic. Mobiles and smartphones consistently hoovered around the 50 percent mark since the beginning of 2017, before surpassing it in 2020. Mobile traffic Due to low infrastructure and financial restraints, many emerging digital markets skipped the desktop internet phase entirely and moved straight onto mobile internet via smartphone and tablet devices. India is a prime example of a market with a significant mobile-first online population. Other countries with a significant share of mobile internet traffic include Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. In most African markets, mobile accounts for more than half of the web traffic. By contrast, mobile only makes up around 45.49 percent of online traffic in the United States. Mobile usage The most popular mobile internet activities worldwide include watching movies or videos online, e-mail usage and accessing social media. Apps are a very popular way to watch video on the go and the most-downloaded entertainment apps in the Apple App Store are Netflix, Tencent Video and Amazon Prime Video.
Google.com was the website with the most page views per day in Bolivia in February 2022, according to ranking by Alexa. The website had more than ***** daily page views and was followed by Unitel.bo, with ** page views per day that month. Within Latin America, Mexico was the country where Amazon Alexa contained the largest number of skills.
As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.
Adyen is a more common payment check-out option for websites originating from the Netherlands and Germany than for websites from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number of Dutch and German websites combined that accepted the technology from the Amsterdam-based fintech company was slightly higher than that for the U.S. That said, Adyen was relatively small compared to other payment service providers. This is because Adyen also offers point-of-sale terminals, which were not included in this overview.
Over ** percent of all the websites in the world that use Klarna as a check-out option in 2023 originate from Germany. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number for Germany is about as much as the number of websites for the United States and the United Kingdom combined. This is different from another source that also looked at the number of websites that offered Klarna in 2022 - citing nearly ****** websites for Germany as opposed to the ****** in this statistic. Neither source gives an explanation for this difference.
Seven out of 10 websites worldwide that use Square as a check-out option in 2023 came from either the United States or Canada. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. Square is a predominantly U.S.-focused digital payment brand, with the ***** other main countries all having English as one of their main languages. Square officially rebranded itself into Block in December 2021, although the source behind these figures kept referring to Square by its original name.
Almost four out of 10 websites in the world that use Google Pay as a check-out option in 2023 originate from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number for the U.S. is about as much as the number of websites for all of Europe combined. India ranks as the ***** in the country in this ranking. This may be somewhat surprising, given the integration of Google Pay within UPI. Note, however, that this ranking only tracks websites and does not take point-of-sale availability into account.
One third of all websites in the world that use Apple Pay as a check-out option in 2023 originate from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number for the U.S. is about as much as the number of websites for all of Europe combined. Notable are the figures recorded in Western Europe: The Netherlands has more websites that use Apple Pay than either India or Brazil.
Nearly half of websites worldwide that use Venmo as a check-out option in 2023 came from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The figure for the United States alone is higher than all of Europe combined, with only the United Kingdom and Australia boasting noticeable figures. Why this is the case is not immediately clear, as Venmo is only available to U.S. residents. The number of websites shown here for Germany, for instance, does not indicate Germans are using Venmo.
As of November 2024, Google.com had the highest average number of monthly visitors from Israel, at 284 million entries. It was followed by YouTube.com with 101 million visitors. Other popular websites included Ynet.co.il and Facebook.com, the former being the most visited news website in the country. Ynet had 65.3 million entries per month and was also the most popular Israeli website in the ranking.
Over ** percent of all the websites in the world that use Stripe as a check-out option in 2023 originate from the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The number for the U.S. is about as much as the number of websites for all of Europe combined. Japan's figure closely resembles that of Canada, potentially indicating that the Irish payment processor is used relatively often in Asia-Pacific compared to other parts of the world.
Roughly ********* of websites worldwide that use PayPal as a check-out option in 2023 were located in the United States. This according to data from an intelligence tool that tracks the adoption of certain technologies. The figure for the United States alone is higher than all of Europe combined. Noticeable, however, is that the number of websites with PayPal in, for example, Italy or France are higher than those of Canada or Australia. This is different from another source that also looked at the number of websites that offered PayPal in 2023 - citing nearly ****** websites for Germany rather than the ****** in this statistic. Neither source gives an explanation for this difference.
According to Nielsen Koreanclick, naver.com was the most visited website as of June 2025, with over ** million unique visitors and a reach of around ** percent. Naver’s home advantage against GoogleNaver is a search engine developed in South Korea and operated by Naver Corporation. After its launch in 1999, the company furthered its reach by becoming an early pioneer in user-generated content. Nowadays, the website features blogs, a web comic service, internet communities and much more. Having established an all-Korean website that features several all-Korean services, Naver has deep roots in South Korean online culture and a big advantage against Google. Another loss for Google was the blockade of its navigation service within the country boarders by the South Korean government. Internet usageSouth Korea is not only among the countries with the fastest mobile internet, but also an internet penetration rate of over ** percent. Additionally, ***percent of South Koreans aged six years or older own a smartphone. Therefore, it is no surprise, that South Korea was the first country to upgrade their networks to **. With an average citizen of each age group spending multiple hours online per day, the internet plays an important role in daily lives.
In May 2023, ** percent of Italy's digital audience browsed search engines. Internet tools and web services followed in the ranking with **** percent. The penetration rate of video and movie content on the internet was over nearly ** percent. On this category of websites, each Italian user spent on average almost six hours in February 2022.
Digital population in Italy In January 2022, Italy counted a digital population of ***** million internet users, with over ** million social media users. Between 2014 and 2020, the share of internet users in Italy surfing daily experienced a constant increase, reaching almost ***** in ** users in 2020.
Instant messaging platforms in Italy
In February 2022, Telegram was the most downloaded communication app from Android users in Italy, with *** thousand downloads. In 2021, WhatsApp was also among the most used social platforms in Italy, counting approximately ** million users in the country. As of the third quarter of 2021, Italy was among the countries worldwide with the highest monthly usage of the popular chat app.
The global number of internet users in was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 1.3 billion users (+23.66 percent). After the fifteenth consecutive increasing year, the number of users is estimated to reach 7 billion users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of internet users of was continuously increasing over the past years.Depicted is the estimated number of individuals in the country or region at hand, that use the internet. As the datasource clarifies, connection quality and usage frequency are distinct aspects, not taken into account here.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of internet users in countries like the Americas and Asia.
In March 2025, ******** accounted for ** percent of all social media site visits in the United States, confirming its position as the leading social media website by far. Other social media platforms, despite their popularity, had to make do with smaller shares of visits across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices combined. ********* ranked second with ***** percent of all U.S. social media site visits, while X (previously Twitter) accounted for ***** percent of the total visits in the country. Additionally, the U.S. is home to the third largest social media audience worldwide. Facebook: mobile vs desktop usage At the beginning of 2022, around ** percent of Facebook users across the globe were using the platform’s social networking services exclusively via mobile phone, while only *** percent reported using their desktop or laptop devices. In September 2022, three Facebook Inc. products occupied some of the leading positions as most downloaded social networking apps on the Apple App Store in the United States. WhatsApp’s messaging platform ranked second with more than *** million downloads, while Facebook and the instant-messaging service Messenger followed ranking third and fifth with *** million and **** million downloads respectively. Social media evolution Between 2012 and 2024, the daily time spent on social networks worldwide experienced an almost constant increase, with users reaching an average of *** minutes per day in 2023, with a decrease to *** daily minutes of engagement in 2024. However, users’ favorite platforms have changed since 2019, and the power balance appears to be shifting further from Facebook’s market dominance. Not only Facebook’s user growth rate is estimated to slow down in the next years, but users belonging to Generation Z appear to prefer video-first social platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube.
Almost *** Finnish small and medium-sized businesses had a website in 2022. The country leads the OECD ranking of share of SMEs with a web page. In contrast, less than **** of small enterprises in Turkey had a website or home page as of 2022, one of the lowest percentages among the ** nations included in this chart. Other countries with a relatively low percentage of small businesses with a web presence include Brazil, Israel, and Portugal.
In November 2023, the English version of Wikipedia received over 3 billion page views originating from the United States across all platforms. The United Kingdom was the country to generate the second-most page views for the subdomain, with 809.9 million views, followed by India, with 773.2 million visualizations.