Did you know? – Web Statistics

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Well, here are some astonishing web statistics we were able to uncover:

• There are an estimated 966 million websites on the web today but this number is constantly rising. Your competitors almost definitely have a website so you should too!
• Google is the #1 most popular website in the world, followed by Facebook and YouTube.
• The most expensive domain name ever sold is insurance.com, which sold for $35.6 million in 2010.
• An estimated 37,000 websites are hacked every day.
• The most popular CMS (content management system) is WordPress, powering 25.4% of all websites in the world. WordPress is also responsible for over 76.5 million blogs created since 2004.
• The average e-commerce site takes 7.12 seconds to load in Internet Explorer 9, an average of 7.15 seconds to load in Firefox 7 and an average of 7.5 seconds to load in Google Chrome.
• 8 out of 10 consumers will shop online if offered free shipping.
• 50% of mobile users will abandon a web page if it takes more than 10 seconds to load, and 60% won’t return to the site.
• A single second delay in your website loading time can result in a 7% loss in conversion. 40% of web users will abandon a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Is your website struggling to keep up? We can help!
• Personalised recommendations can increase conversion rates by up to 5.5 times.
• 2.9 billion Google searches are made every day.
• Facebook has an estimated 1.2 Billion active users. Meaning that of the 7 billion people on Earth, 17% are on Facebook. Is your business on Facebook? Find our more about our social media account set up to get a head start.
• 1,700 tweets are sent every second!
• Around 250 billion emails are sent every day! Of those, 200 billion are spam!