USA and Top 20 web hosting countries

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

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:

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 20^th 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:

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

	Country	Number of sites hosted
1	United States	431,214
2	Germany	82,152
3	China	49,730
4	United Kingdom	37,829
5	France	35,777
6	Japan	35,138
7	Russia	31,134
8	Netherlands	24,214
9	Canada	18,218
10	Italy	13,293
11	Spain	13,047
12	Brazil	10,481
13	Poland	9,989
14	Turkey	7,721
15	Australia	6,669
16	Ukraine	6,537
17	Czech Republic	6,257
18	India	6,255
19	Hong Kong	5,730
20	Korea (South)	5,659
21	Sweden	5,243
22	Singapore	4,276
23	Thailand	4,190
24	Ireland	4,122
25	Denmark	4,037
26	Switzerland	4,022
27	Romania	3,746
28	Viet Nam	3,434
29	Hungary	3,135
30	Indonesia	3,002
31	Taiwan	2,741
32	Iran	2,704
33	Austria	2,442
34	Argentina	2,312
35	Malaysia	2,289
36	British Virgin Islands	2,245
37	Belgium	2,064
38	Norway	1,887
39	South Africa	1,852
40	Israel	1,729
41	Portugal	1,724
42	Bulgaria	1,713
43	Finland	1,707
44	Pakistan	1,421
45	Bahamas	1,385
46	Lithuania	1,214
47	Slovakia	1,208
48	New Zealand	1,046
49	Mexico	1,038
50	Chile	867
51	Latvia	857
52	Slovenia	790
53	Belarus	754
54	Greece	712
55	Kazakhstan	688
56	Estonia	635
57	Luxembourg	591
58	Croatia	491
59	Columbia	412
60	Panama	379
61	Serbia	365
62	Philippines	325
63	Saudi Arabia	322
64	Venezuela	316
65	Cyprus	313
66	Peru	311
67	United Arab Emirates	279
68	Azerbaijan	277
69	Egypt	276
70	Moldova	235
71	Georgia	223
72	Uzbekistan	213
73	Costa Rica	196
74	Mongolia	191
75	Iceland	188
76	Mauritius	180
77	Ecuador	129
78	Sri Lanka	119
79	Cayman Island	107
80	Bangladesh	105
81	Macedonia	103
82	Morocco	97
83	Curacao	96
84	Uruguay	95
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	92
86	Kuwait	92
87	Armenia	88
88	Dominican Republic	88
89	Kyrgyzstan	79
90	Seychelles	56
91	Kenya	54
92	Qatar	54
93	Jordan	52
94	Liechtenstein	52
95	Bolivia	51
96	San Marino	51
97	Puerto Rico	50
98	Nigeria	49
99	Syria	49
100	Belize	48

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.