In the end of 2023, China's internet had amassed almost 382 billion unique webpages, slightly over a third of which were registered in the country's capital Beijing. Guangdong and Zhejiang were other provinces reporting the highest number of registered webpages in China.
As of December 2024, there were in total around 4.46 million websites registered in China. This represent an increase from around 3.88 million by the end of 2023.
With nearly 5.8 million websites, .ru was the dominant domain name in Russia as of August 2024. It was followed by .rf (.рф) with nearly 780,000 websites under this domain name.
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.
According to a report published by DataReportal, as of December 2020, Huay.com had the highest number of visited pages per one time of around 25.88 pages. In that same period, Huay.com had a monthly traffic of approximately 32.3 million visits in Thailand.
The most viewed website as of July 2021 was the news platform digi24.ro, with over 1.3 million unique views from both Romania and abroad. Olx.ro, an online website for buying and selling services and goods, ranked third, with more than 750 thousand views in one day.
In January 2025, ravelry.com was the most visited website among the selected crafts web pages worldwide, with ** million visits. That month, hobbylobby.com followed in the ranking, with over ** million visits.
Over 20 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 70,000 websites for Germany as opposed to the 22,000 in this statistic. Neither source gives an explanation for this difference.
This statistic depicts the average number of websites visted before buying furniture in the United States in 2012, by age. The survey revealed that American's under the age of 35 visit, on average, 5.6 furniture websites before purchasing furniture.
As of December 2020, Wix was the leading website builder technologies in Indonesia, with 242 websites using its technologies. Wix is a cloud-based website builder that allows its users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites by using drag and drop tools.
The number of domains ending in .de from 1994 to 2023 has increased drastically. In 2023, the number of websites with this ending, that indicates their German origin, amounted to almost 17.7 million.
As of September 2020, Squarespace was the leading website builder in Australia with around 26.6 thousand websites using its technologies. Squarespace is an all-in-one SaaS website building and hosting solution.
As of December 2020, Wix was the leading website builder technology in Malaysia, with 428 websites using its technologies. Wix is a cloud-based website builder that allows its users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites by using drag and drop tools.
WP.pl had the highest number of visits in Poland in January 2022, with 10.27 million users visiting its main page. Onet.pl was second, with 9.63 million visits. All the websites with the most visited main pages were news and entertainment portals.
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.
Currently, Google holds the leading position as the most popular website worldwide with approximately 81 billion monthly visits at its peak. The online platform has held the top spot since June 2010, when it relieved Yahoo of the first place.
This statistic shows data on the share of companies with their own websites in Germany in 2020, broken down by number of employees. In the period of consideration, 93 percent of companies with 50 to 249 employees had their own website.
This statistics shows the leading social media websites by number of registered users in China in the year 2012. In 2012, the Chinese social media website Baihe had 36 million registered users.
In the period from January 2022 to May 2022, online marketplace bol.com, which serves consumers primarily within The Netherlands and Belgium, was the most visited e-commerce website in the Netherlands, registering almost 69 million monthly visits on average. This is over three times as much traffic from the country as was received by global online marketplace amazon.com within the same timeframe.
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.
In the end of 2023, China's internet had amassed almost 382 billion unique webpages, slightly over a third of which were registered in the country's capital Beijing. Guangdong and Zhejiang were other provinces reporting the highest number of registered webpages in China.