Where in the world are the top one million websites located?

Do you know the hosting locations of the biggest websites in the world? More specifically, do you know in which cities they are located?

We do and now you can as well. After analyzing the top one million websites in the world, we now present you with some rather astonishing findings.

Here’s a sample of some of the more interesting findings:

• 7,936 cities host the top one million sites in the world.
• The top 10 cities account for 223,206 sites or just over 22% of the top million.
• The top three cities account for about 10% of the top million 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.

You can read the report, complete with an interactive map of the world, here:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/07/hosting-locations-2013/

Best regards

The Pingdom Team

Contact person:

Magnus Nystedt

Twitter: @pingdom

Email: magnus@pingdom.com

Skype: mnystedt

Phone: +46 709 73 71 72

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Pingdom is a leading global provider of website uptime and performance monitoring services, monitoring websites and servers from multiple locations on the Internet to ensure the best reliability and accuracy possible. The company is growing fast and has hundreds of thousands of customers in over 200 countries, ranging from individuals to large international corporations. For more information, visit http://www.pingdom.com.