Internet Statistics 2020

Internet usage has been growing steadily for more than a decade. More than 1.5 billion websites exist today, and the number grows every second. More people browse, shop, communicate and receive therapy online than ever before. We Are Social reported that internet usage grows at an average of about 1 million new users every day. That's not even taking into account the endless number of people who use their mobile phones to conduct various tasks online. The following is some statistical information we put together for those who need a quick reference. You'll be amazed by how much internet use has grown and expanded.

Number of Internet Users in the World in 2019

As of January of 2019, there were 7.6 billion people in the world, 4.3 billion were internet users. That means that more than 56 percent of the population uses the internet. Apparently, billions of people own personal computers, as well. Forrester Research claimed that more than 2 billion computers were sold by the end of 2015. The current number of computers sold in 2019 alone is more than 232 million and growing every second, according to Worldometers.

WordPress Most Surprising Statistics

• 90% of hacked websites using WordPress
• 34% of the internet is powered by WordPress
• There are 54,500+ free plugins for WordPress
• Over 22% of all online stores run on WooCommerce

What People Do on the Internet

Now you're probably wondering what people do with their computers and the internet. Here's some fun information about how they use their computers at home:

Shopping

One of the main ways that internet users utilize their subscriptions is to shop online. Various research companies reported trend information about online shopping. In 2018, more than 69 percent of Americans said that they had purchased an item online at least once. Twenty-five percent of Americans said that they shopped online at least once a month. Many people shop online during the holidays. Reuters reported that in 2018, Americans spent more than $128 billion shopping online for holiday gifts.

Online Learning

Online learning is another way that many people spend their internet usage time. Many people go to online colleges because of distance challenges and time management issues. The internet makes it possible for them to earn degrees online. In 2017, more than 6 million people were enrolled in online courses. The number grows drastically every day.

Browsing

Some users use the internet to browse. They read the news, search for articles, and do self-help tasks online. Some of them search for games, music and the like. The most commonly used internet browsers are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Internet Explorer was the most popular browser in 2014, with 58.9 percent of users turning to it for their information. Google Chrome has now taken the lead in 2019.

Job Searches

Job searching is another popular use of the internet of which users take advantage. According to Workology, more than 90 percent of people use the internet to look for work. It looks like the days of paper applications and random employer stop-bys are long gone because of the ease of internet job searches.

Video Streaming

Video streaming is a popular activity that many internet users engage in. YouTube is the most popular video streaming site, with more than 2 billion active monthly users. More than 73 percent of Americans use the site, and the number grows larger every day, according to the Business of Apps.

Country With the Largest Number of Internet Users

Internet usage is a huge thing across the globe. Its popularity goes way beyond the United States. BroadBand Search calculated the number of global internet users to be little more than 4.2 billion, which is 55 percent of the entire global population. Asia had the most internet users out of those 4.2 billion people. The country rules the market with 49 percent. The second highest country for internet use was Europe at 16.8 percent. Africa came in at a strong third at 11.0, and Latin America came in fourth with 10.3 percent of the usage. North America was fifth with 8.9 percent of the usage, and then the Middle East and Australia trailed at the bottom with less than 4 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

Number of Mobile Internet Users

Mobile internet usage is another way that people use the net to perform various tasks. Wearesocial reports that there are more than 3.9 billion mobile phone users in 2019, and they expect the number to rise again in 2020.

Number of Domain Name Registrations

The second quarter of 2019 ended with more than 354 million domain name registrations. Out of those registrations, almost 43 percent of them were .com names.

Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names

The most expensive domain name ever sold is LasVegas.com, which was bought in 2005 for $90 million, but this domain transaction is still in progress. The estimated time of completion is in 2040.

• Voice.com sold for $30 million (2019)
• 360.com sold for $17 million (2015)
• Sex.com sold for $13 million (2010)
• Fund.com sold for $12 million (2008)
• Hotels.com sold for $11 million (2001)
• Tesla.com sold for $11 million (2014)
• Porn.com sold for $9.5 million (2007)
• Porno.com sold for $8.8 million (2015)
• Fb.com sold for $8.5 million (2010)
• We.com sold for $8 million (2015)

Number of Facebook Users

Facebook is one of the most widely-used sites on the internet. The site launched in 2003 and has grown to a social monstrosity since then. In 2019, the total number of Facebook users grew to more than 2.45 billion monthly active users, according to Zephoria. Facebook has more than 1.6 billion users who log onto the site at least once every day. More than 1.74 billion users log onto Facebook or use it in some other capacity with their mobile devices. Five Facebook profiles are created every second. Seventy-six percent of females use Facebook and 66 percent of males use the site. Furthermore, Facebook users upload more than 300 million photos to their accounts every day.

Number of Twitter Users

Twitter is another highly popular social media site on the internet. It launched in 2006 and became famous for the short status updates, called tweets, that let people's followers know what they were up to. Twitter is still popular. More than 23 percent of the population is on Twitter as of now. There are 336 million active users. People post 500 million tweets a day, and, which means that 6,000 tweets materialize every second.

Google Stats

Everyone knows that Google is the primary search engine in the world, but just how popular is that? Well, that's popular enough to own more than 90 percent of the search engine market. Aside from that, Google's Gmail email service owns about 27 percent of the email market.

People head for Google much more than they use Yahoo! Search, Bing or any of the alternative search engines. Statistics show that people perform more than 63,000 searches per second every day, with each person conducting about three to four daily searches.

Most Popular Search Terms

Have you ever been curious about what internet users search for when they conduct searches on Google? This is some information from October of 2019 about the 10 most popular search terms.

• Facebook 232,100,000 searches
• YouTube 196,100,000 searches
• Amazon 106,200,000 searches
• Gmail 93,420,000 searches
• Google 85,820,000 searches
• eBay 58,520,000 searches
• Yahoo 56,670,000 searches
• Weather 53,910,000 searches
• Craigslist 50,220,000 searches
• Yahoo Mail 49,910,000 searches

It's not surprising that all the top terms were the names of internet website brands. Users also conducted a lot of new searches in 2019. The most popular new search term of the year was "Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau" with 515,000 searches. The second-place new search term was "Brooke Nevils," with 33,000 searches. The third-place new search term was "Saddleridge fire" with 20,000 views.

Top Video Streaming Platforms

Video streaming is one of the activities that many internet users engage in for recreation and learning experiences. Users stream movies, sports, tutorials, television shows and more from various sites. YouTube is the leading go-to spot for video streaming, and it has more than 1 billion users. Netflix is another big dog in the video streaming game. Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu are three sites that internet users frequent, as well. Netflix has more than 130 million users. Amazon Prime Video has 100 million worldwide subscribers, and Hulu has 82 million users. Other video streaming sites include Vimeo, Roku, Eros, and Hotstar.

Time Spent Video Streaming

Video streaming statistics show that internet users spend most of their time watching videos. Comparitech reported that US consumers spend more than 40 hours a week watching videos. That's more than some people work in a week.

Ecommerce Stats

Ecommerce is a huge part of what people do when they're online. The use of the internet to do shopping is quickly surpassing brick and mortar shopping trends. According to Entrepreneur, 51 percent of US citizens prefer online shopping to visiting a store. ProfitIndustry estimates that 95 percent of shopping will be done by eCommerce by 2040. There certainly are enough stores to make that happen. More than 840,000 WordPress-powered stores exist already. Shopify hosts 820,000 stores, and Sellfy has 20,000 stores. Let's not forget all the online stores that pop up on sites such as eBay and Amazon. The eBay site has more than 1.5 million sellers on its roster, and most of them have full-blown stores.

Top Ecommerce Sites

10 main companies ruled the eCommerce sales in 2019. Amazon still has the crown in 2019, with more than 47 percent of eCommerce sales locked down. Their percentage dropped about 2 percent from their 49.1 percent number from 2018. Ebay came in at second place with 6.1 percent of the sales. They slipped .5 percent from the previous year. Walmart took third place with 4.6 percent of the eCommerce sales in 2019. Whatever they did over the past year worked because they had an increase of .9 percent from 2018 and jumped ahead of Apple. Apple only had 3.8 percent of the eCommerce sales for 2019, which was .1 percent less than they had last year. Other companies on the top retail eCommerce list included companies such as The Home Depot, Costco, Wayfair, Qurate Retail Group, Best Buy and Macy's.

Online Therapy Statistics

Online therapy has become a widely used alternative to visiting mental health professionals for traditional services. Sites like Talkspace, Regain, Better Help and Online-Therapy.com provide mobile and online therapy services that users can receive in the comfort of their homes. TalkSpace has 500,000 registered users to date and more users as signing up as they grow to have faith in the method.

What you just read is the most updated version of internet statistics available. The internet and its usage continue to grow more and more each day. Therefore, we'll be back with a new and improved statistical report very soon.

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