While more people use the internet in Asia than anywhere else in the world, English is the predominant language of the world’s websites. According to First Site Guide (cited below): “25.9% of the internet is in English, 19.4% is in Chinese, and 8% is in Spanish.” Keep reading for more worldwide website statistics.
More world websites statistics
Asia has over 2.8 billion web users, with over 1 billion active users residing in China and 659 million in India.
Europe is the continent with the second most internet users, though they have under 700 million. The US comes in third with 307 million users (as of early 2022).
The age group with the most internet users (at least as of 2019) is 25 to 34-year-olds. They account for 1/3 of web users.
The majority of people also use Chrome as their browser. In fact, 65% of people use Chrome while the next most popular engine (Safari) is used by 16.82% of users.
According to First Site Guide: “The most connected region globally is North America, with over 75% of people having an internet connection. It is closely followed by Europe, in which over 68% of all people have internet access. The region with the least internet connectivity is Sub-Saharan Africa, with 24% of people having internet access according to internet usage statistics.”
Worldwide web searches
Google is by far the most popular search engine, holding 92.7% of the market share. In second place is Bing with just under 3%.
While DuckDuckGo is the search engine with the most privacy features, it’s used by only .5% of internet users.
And while you might think iPhones are ubiquitous, they’re also expensive. That’s probably why most mobile internet users (nearly 75%) use an Android OS.
And time spent on smartphones is rapidly increasing. 12 years ago, we spent less than an hour a day looking at the internet on our mobile devices. Today, we average about 2.8 hours. And this is only expected to increase. — WTF fun facts
Source: “Internet Statistics 2023: Facts You Need-to-Know” — First Site Guide