One of the backbones of today’s digital revolution is hosting services. It is to the information age what steam and coal were to the industrial age: the source of power to run things, in this case, to drive the internet. Having a website has come a long way from being an online vanity gig to what it is today—ground zero from where businesses set forth to reach the outlying borders of the web, from social media to mobile internet to the realm of apps and the cloud.
At the heart of your online presence is your website, while at its core is the hosting service. Whether you’re a service provider or any other large enterprise or small business for that matter, even a freelancer, it pays to know some key web hosting research data that are propelling the industry into the future—one that is likely to impact yours.
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- 66% of customers say that a frustrating online experience influences how they perceive a business overall (SuperOffice, 2021). Moreover, 84% are less likely to buy if their online experience is poor, and 76% have a negative impression of a business offering a poor online experience (Think Tribe).
- It is estimated that slow loading websites cost the US economy more than $500 million annually, with a one-second delay decreasing conversion rates by as high as 7% (WebsiteHostingRating, 2021).
- Increasing the loading time from eight seconds to two seconds results in a 74%increase in conversion rate (Website Hosting Insider, 2017).
- More than 30,000 websites get hacked each day (Forbes, 2013), while 43% of cybercrimes worldwide are committed against small and medium businesses (Verizon, 2019).
- It took the telephone 75 years to reach its first 50 million users, the radio 38 years, while television needed 13 years; the Internet only needed four years to do so (Citi, 2016).
- As of January 2021, an average of 1.8 billion websites worldwide are online at the same time on a daily basis (Internet Live Stats, 2021).
- The most expensive domain names in the world include carinsurance.com ($49.7 million), insurance.com ($35.6 million), privatejet.com ($30.18million), hotels.com ($11 million), fb.com ($8.5 million) and business.com ($7.5 million) (Hosting Tribunal, 2020; WPBeginner, 2019).
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