Website Usage Trends Among Top-Level Domains

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Website Usage Trends Among Top-Level Domains

By CircleID Reporter
July 08, 2014, 5:17 pm PDT Views: 8,031 Comments: 1

EURid and Leuven Statistics Research Centre have released the results of a study investigating websites under most popular top-level domains. The report focuses on three questions:

1. What is the most common usage of websites?
2. Is there a difference in how different top-level domains are used?
3. Has the way websites are used changed over time?

According to the report, most common use of a domain name is to link to a website used for business purposes. 30.5% of the categorised domain names linked to a business website. Other categories with a large percentage of websites were: holding page (27.8%), error (16.2%) and pay-per-click (12.9%). Relatively few sites (9.3%) were used as personal websites and the percentages for the password-protected, institutional and adult-content categories were almost negligible.

Average usage per category, across all eight TLDs – Since giving each TLD equal weight does not accurately reflect the Internet (users will visit vastly more .com sites than .pro sites), the group also calculated the average, weighting each TLD by size. The weighted averages are given in blue.

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what about websites using new gTLDs? DJ Chuang – Jul 12, 2014 10:01 PM

Good to see this analysis for those 8 TLDs (as noted over at eurid.eu’s report, those 8 are: .com .net .org .eu .biz .info .mobi .pro), would be really good to also see this kind of analysis for the new gTLDs after they’re in General Availiability for a month or two.

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