Saturday 23 November 2013

Hosting locations of the world’s top one million websites

Hosting locations of your favorite websites


After going through the list of websites, we compiled the numbers and came up with some interesting facts. In total, we found 7,936 cities that between them host the top one million sites in the world.
We plotted all these hosting locations on an interactive map of the world, with the cities with one or more sites in the top million list marked with blue dots. The size of the dots signifies how many sites are hosted in each city.
Be aware that the map might take a while to load. You can also download the map as a picture.

The top 100 web hosting cities

Clicking around on the world map to see if there’s a top website where you live is great fun, but we also wanted to present a list of the cities in the world that host the most top websites.
Remember that the million websites are hosted in almost 8,000 cities. However, it should be noted that the top 10 cities combined account for 223,206 sites or just over 22% of the top million.
The top three cities combined account for about 10% of the top million websites.
What city hosts the biggest number of these top websites? Houston, Texas, in the United States, singlehandedly harbors over 50,000 of these sites, making it the number one city. Mountain View, California, is in the number two slot with almost 30,000 sites.
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Then, here are the 100 cities that host the most of the sites in the top million:
The top 100 web hosting cities
Number of websitesCityCountry
150,598HoustonUnited States
229,594Mountain ViewUnited States
324,822DallasUnited States
423,210ScottsdaleUnited States
521,808San AntonioUnited States
620,691ProvoUnited States
714,871AshburnUnited States
813,214San FranciscoUnited States
913,125ChicagoUnited States
1011,273BeijingChina
1110,006New YorkUnited States
129,412Los AngelesUnited States
138,170LansingUnited States
147,588TokyoJapan
157,538MontrealCanada
167,380Culver CityUnited States
177,349BreaUnited States
186,605OsakaJapan
196,296AtlantaUnited States
206,063AmsterdamThe Netherlands
214,546MoscowRussia
224,250BurlingtonUnited States
233,823WayneUnited States
243,627AbseconUnited States
253,491AustinUnited States
263,451SeattleUnited States
273,449OrlandoUnited States
283,361BerlinGermany
293,176ColumbusUnited States
303,146Saint LouisUnited States
313,088ShanghaiChina
322,907ParisFrance
332,819DenverUnited States
342,804SunnyvaleUnited States
352,659BangkokThailand
362,619EnglewoodUnited States
372,607ProvidenceUnited States
382,601TorontoCanada
392,579San JoseUnited States
402,525GuangzhouChina
412,366TampaUnited States
422,293LondonUnited Kingdom
432,283PhoenixUnited States
442,248HangzhouChina
452,196TempeUnited States
462,189San DiegoUnited States
472,181FremontUnited States
482,176McleanUnited States
492,097PittsburghUnited States
501,957NanjingChina
511,937Fort LauderdaleUnited States
521,920NewarkUnited States
531,795ScrantonUnited States
541,787TaipeiTaiwan
551,775MediaUnited States
561,735NassauBahamas
571,703SeoulSouth Korea
581,693AnaheimUnited States
591,692PlanoUnited States
601,632HerndonUnited States
611,520GloucesterUnited States
621,484Las VegasUnited States
631,457Santa RosaUnited States
641,448FulshearUnited States
651,441WalthamUnited States
661,428Kansas CityUnited States
671,417Arlington HeightsUnited States
681,395MiamiUnited States
691,361SanayiTurkey
701,352JacksonvilleUnited States
711,282MissoulaUnited States
721,262HanoiVietnam
731,240ChengduChina
741,217Santa MonicaUnited States
751,186MumbaiIndia
761,181WilmingtonUnited States
771,179RestonUnited States
781,173HenanChina
791,160WeehawkenUnited States
801,158ChesterfieldUnited States
811,150Buenos AiresArgentina
821,136CharlotteUnited States
831,107FarmingtonUnited States
841,102OrangeUnited States
851,102MatawanUnited States
861,087LenexaUnited States
871,066Simi ValleyUnited States
881,046Hong KongHong Kong
891,021Palo AltoUnited States
90989Saint PetersburgRussia
91973SydneyAustralia
92968KievUkraine
93967WashingtonUnited States
94965Ann ArborUnited States
95948Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam
96934SecaucusUnited States
97920Garden CityUnited States
98913Porto AlegreBrazil
99908CliftonUnited States
100898MarsTurkey
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USA and Top 20 web hosting countries

The US hosts 43% of the world’s top 1 million websites

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It should come as no surprise that the United States is the world leader in hosting websites. But just how many of the world’s top sites are hosted in the US? Following ourstudy of web hosting in Africa, we now broaden the perspective and can announce that 43% of the world’s top 1 million websites are hosted in the United States

Top 20 web hosting countries

After checking the IP addresses of the top 1 million websites as ranked by Alexa, we put them in order of how many websites are hosted in each country. You can read a bit more about our methodology at the end of the article.
In total, we identified 191 countries as hosting one or more sites in the top 1 million, with the following 20 in the top:
Top 20 web hosting countries
As you can see, the US is in a clear lead with 431,214 sites, followed by Germany with 82,152, China with 49,730, UK with 37,829, and France with 35,777. In 20th place we find South Korea with 5,659 websites hosted out of the top 1 million.
This is certainly a long tail if there ever was one :)

Europe vs US

With the US in such a commanding lead, it would, of course, be interesting to see how it compares to other parts of the world. One of the obvious comparisons would be with Europe. Here’s what that comparison looks like:
Web hosting: Europe vs US
Even compared to the countries in Europe combined, the US is still considerably larger, with 431,214 sites compared to the 313,252 in Europe.
You may have noted that Europe and the US together claim around 75% of the top 1 million sites.

Top 100 countries

Here are the top 100 countries, which host the most sites in the top 1 million:
Top 100 web hosting countries
CountryNumber of sites hosted
1United States431,214
2Germany82,152
3China49,730
4United Kingdom37,829
5France35,777
6Japan35,138
7Russia31,134
8Netherlands24,214
9Canada18,218
10Italy13,293
11Spain13,047
12Brazil10,481
13Poland9,989
14Turkey7,721
15Australia6,669
16Ukraine6,537
17Czech Republic6,257
18India6,255
19Hong Kong5,730
20Korea (South)5,659
21Sweden5,243
22Singapore4,276
23Thailand4,190
24Ireland4,122
25Denmark4,037
26Switzerland4,022
27Romania3,746
28Viet Nam3,434
29Hungary3,135
30Indonesia3,002
31Taiwan2,741
32Iran2,704
33Austria2,442
34Argentina2,312
35Malaysia2,289
36British Virgin Islands2,245
37Belgium2,064
38Norway1,887
39South Africa1,852
40Israel1,729
41Portugal1,724
42Bulgaria1,713
43Finland1,707
44Pakistan1,421
45Bahamas1,385
46Lithuania1,214
47Slovakia1,208
48New Zealand1,046
49Mexico1,038
50Chile867
51Latvia857
52Slovenia790
53Belarus754
54Greece712
55Kazakhstan688
56Estonia635
57Luxembourg591
58Croatia491
59Columbia412
60Panama379
61Serbia365
62Philippines325
63Saudi Arabia322
64Venezuela316
65Cyprus313
66Peru311
67United Arab Emirates279
68Azerbaijan277
69Egypt276
70Moldova235
71Georgia223
72Uzbekistan213
73Costa Rica196
74Mongolia191
75Iceland188
76Mauritius180
77Ecuador129
78Sri Lanka119
79Cayman Island107
80Bangladesh105
81Macedonia103
82Morocco97
83Curacao96
84Uruguay95
85Bosnia and Herzegovina92
86Kuwait92
87Armenia88
88Dominican Republic88
89Kyrgyzstan79
90Seychelles56
91Kenya54
92Qatar54
93Jordan52
94Liechtenstein52
95Bolivia51
96San Marino51
97Puerto Rico50
98Nigeria49
99Syria49
100Belize48

Will the rest catch up to the US?

Alexa may not be the definitive list to go by, but, at the very least, it should give a good indication of what the real numbers are. We doubt anyone is surprised that the US is in the lead, but it’s interesting to see how the countries seem to jockey for positions. Also, we just looked at the top 1 million sites, which is just a small fraction of all websites that exist.
We will keep an eye on this issue and see how it develops over the coming months and years.
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