The top 100 web hosting countries in 2013.

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You can read the full article at http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/14/web-hosting-countries-2013/

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Here are the highlights.

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If the top 1 million sites would be evenly distributed, each country in the world would host about 5,900 web sites.

But is that really the case?

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The world’s top one million sites are hosted in 191 different countries.

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The top 20 countries host 80% of the top million sites.

That leaves just 20% to the other 171 countries.

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United StatesGermany

ChinaUnited Kingdom

RussiaFranceJapan

NetherlandsCanadaPoland

SpainBrazil

ItalyTurkey

UkraineCzech Republic

AustraliaIndia

SingaporeSweden

0 125,000 250,000 375,000 500,000

Number of sites (out of the Alexa

top 1 million) hosted in each

country

25,63229,89834,49835,254

70,58735,90835,500

421,228

18,11612,10912,06210,8079,6748,4988,4017,3197,2997,2545,4795,201

Web hosting countries

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The US is in a big lead as you can see.

Actually, the US hosts almost as many sites as Asia and Europe together.

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0

125,000

250,000

375,000

500,000

United States Europe Asia Other

149,884114,571

314,317

421,228 Number of sites (out of the Alexa top 1 million) hosted in each region.

42.1%

15.0%

31.4%

11.5%

Number of websites hosted:Asia, Europe and the US

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So the United States may have a crushing lead in number of hosted sites.

But remember that 191 countries, that is more than 90% of the world’s nations, host at least one site out of the top million.

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Source for top one million:http://www.alexa.com/topsites(Data collected 2013-02-27)

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