Hosting locations of the world’s top one million websites

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You can read the full article at http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/07/hosting-locations-2013/

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Here is the short version.

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In 2012, we found that 43% of the world’s top one million sites were hosted in the United States.

But we felt eager to figure out more.

Exactly where are these sites are hosted? In which city?

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We found that 7,936 cities host the top one million sites in the world.

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The top 10 cities hosts 223,206 sites.

That is over 22% of the top million.

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The top three cities hosts about 10% of the top million websites.

(They are all U.S. cities)

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pingdom.com Top 20 web hosting citiesHouston

Mountain ViewDallas

ScottsdaleSan Antonio

ProvoAshburn

San FranciscoChicago

BeijingNew York

Los AngelesLansing

TokyoMontreal

Culver CityBrea

OsakaAtlanta

Amsterdam

0 15,000 30,000 45,000 60,000

13,21414,871

20,69121,808

29,59424,822

23,210

50,598

13,12511,273

10,0069,412

8,1707,5887,5387,3807,349

6,6056,2966,063

Number of sites (out of the top

1 million) hosted in each city

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The top one million web sites hosting mappingdom.com

(The size of the dots signifies how many sites are hosted in each city)

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The United States has a crushing lead in terms of hosting locations.

But almost every part of the world has at least some site represented in 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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