Website Statistics

How webmasters design their pages and what services are used on their sites.

Number of nodes

In September 2014, according to Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Web), there are a billion sites in the World.

In 2009, 47 million new sites were created. 300 million in 2011. In total, there were 550 million websites in January 2012.
And more than 3 billion email accounts.

Domain names

Number of domains surrendered in January 2012 by Pingdom.

Domain extensions Number in millions In 2013
All extensions 324  
.com 95.5 108
Country Expansion (ccTLD) 86.9  
.net 13.8 15
.org 9.3 10
.info 7.6 7
.biz 2.1  

Service statistics

After analyzing 4 million websites, Casual received the following percentages of sites and services to which they are tied....

Content ItemsPercent
Statistical analysis code 28%
Shot 20%
RSS feeds 18%
Adsense Ad Code 12%
Facebook link to pages 5%
Link to Twitter 5%
Facebook и Twitter 2%
Site Validation Tag 1%

The validation tag is used by GWT, which can also use a file, so this percentage is not representative.

Site Design Statistics

The "Mom" service, associated with the Opera browser, sets interest on the design of web pages annually. These figures were given in October 2008 .

HTML code and page size

Contents Quantity
Average characters per page 16500
Percentage of pages of document type 50%
Percentage of XHTML doctypes 65%
Percentage of transitive doctypes 90%

Using CSS

Percentage of pages using style sheets.

Contents Quantity
Stylesheet Pages 80%
Style sheets 45%
Average size of included CSS 1000 characters
Average Downloaded CSS File Size 8500 characters

Standard check

How many HTML pages pass the W3C test?

4,13% passent le test de validation W3C.
50%    affichent le badge "W3C valide" à tort.

Half of the pages that display the W3C match icon are actually non-compliant.

Speed ​ ​ (Google data for June 2010)

The average download speed is 4.9 seconds.

The average page size is 320 KB.

The middle page contains 44 external resource calls in the header (<head> to </head>). This is the main source of slowdown .

How many 2.0 websites?

Using Flash

Nodes using Flash Percent Percentage 2014
World Briefing 20% 33,5%
France   42%
China, maximum   67%
Germany, least of all   25%

After a year, Casual calculates 20%.

Using Ajax

Percentage of pages using the XMLHttpRequest object and therefore Ajax.

Sites using Ajax Percent
World Briefing 3,2%
France 3,68%
Norway, maximum 10,18%
Japan, minimum 0,87%

Use of scripts

Client-side scripted pages.

Scripted page Percent
Pages containing code without HTML/CSS 75%
Use script tag 88%
Using VBscript 4%
There is an included script file 65%
Average Script Size Enabled 2500 characters
Average loaded script file size 6500 characters

What Ajax frameworks

These framework selection statistics were presented by Webdirection at the end of 2008.

Ajax frameworkPercent
JQuery 62%
Prototype 23%
Script.aculo.us 18%
Mootools 19%
Yahoo UI 10%

Servers

Percentage shares of website servers in January 2012 Pingdom:

Server Percent
Apache 64%
II by Microsoft 14%
NGinx 13%
Google's GFE (online Google) 9%

Statistics for NetCraft in January 2010:

Server Percent
Apache 53.8%
II by Microsoft 24%
NGinx 7.5%
Google's GFE (online Google) 7%
Other 7%

Opera in 2008:

51% sous le serveur libre Apache.
36% sous IIS de Microsoft.

Navigators

Global market share by Net Applications in 2009 and StatCounters in January 2014.

Navigator 2009 2014
Internet Explorer 62,7% 25%
Firefox 24,6% 20%
Chrome 4,6% 47%
Safari 4,4% 4.8%
Opera 2.4% 1.3%

Internauts

Distribution by region as of January 2012.

Internauts Millions
Total amount 2100
Asia 922
Europe 476
United States and Canada 271
South and Central America 216
Africa 119
Middle East 68
Oceania 21.3

Source of internet statistics.

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