The presence of eCommerce in our lives can often be considered overwhelming, due to the increasing convenience they offer and the demand that is supplementing it. Now all of our favorite eCommerce websites exist because they have a web host provider.
What Is Web Hosting And Ecommerce?
Hosting basically refers to finding a place on a server that allows you to conduct your business there. With an increasing number of business ventures stepping foot into the world of eCommerce, the number of web hosting providers has also increased. Here are a few facts about them that can help you realize just how impressive their prominent presence is, on a global scale.
✅ The US has the largest number of hosted domains:
The United States is the hub for web hosting, and this country alone has at least 108,249,065 hosted domains, which accounts for around 20.7% of all the hosted websites across the world. Although 50% of registered domains choose to keep their location private, studies suggest that the US alone accounts for a huge chunk of it. It even trumps the number of hosted domains in China, which stands at 25,563,136 domains, making up only 4.89% of the entire hosted domain set.
✅ The web hosting market was worth 62.6 billion dollars in 2020:
The global web hosting market is today worth billions of US dollars, and this is no slight number. This statistic has been growing exponentially over the recent period, and it goes to show just how needed the web hosting service is in today’s market. In 2019, it was valued at about 56.7 US dollars, and in 2020, it climbed up to 62.6 billion dollars. Since the pandemic forced most of us to switch to online shopping anyways, the number is going to be a lot bigger for the year 2021.
✅ Amazon hosts the largest number of sites:
The hosting market has a number of big contenders, all of which have bagged some top clients and have acquired massive chunks of the entire market. Out of them, Amazon’s hosting technology stands out for hosting the largest number of sites – approximately 1,568,936 sites. Google cloud hosting comes in second, with 947,389 sites and GoDaddy hosting comes in third, with about 841,362 sites. Numerous other hosting technologies such as Bluehost, Aruba, WordPress, et cetera, also have a considerable share in this market.
✅ 52% of web traffic is fake:
While this may be hard to believe, but it is in fact true, that quite a huge chunk of web traffic is in fact fake. This fake web traffic is usually created by automated algorithms or bots, and let’s be honest, bots are almost everywhere so this should really come as no surprise. For a brief period in 2012 and 2020, human traffic overtook the traffic created by bots, but this too was short-lived and the bots are back on top now. Good bots will simply crawl through your website, but bad bots may try to hack it. Moreover, regardless of the amount of human traffic, bots will keep visiting domains.
Conclusion:
The eCommerce and web hosting markets are huge, and their magnanimous effect on our lives only continues to increase. This poses a huge opportunity for us both in terms of increasing economic activity as well as employment rates.
