Key Takeaways
- Global digital advertising spend reached $786.5B in 2023, and $881.2B in 2024, (a key driver of website visits)
- Global time spent online by users was 6 hours 25 minutes per day in 2024
- There were 4.88 billion global internet users in January 2023
- The average web page takes 6.7 seconds to load on mobile in 2023
- The median LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) for mobile is 3.2 seconds
- The median TTFB (Time to First Byte) on mobile is 1.2 seconds
- Google Search is the largest referrer of web traffic globally (share varies by dataset)
- In 2023, Google held 91.47% global search engine market share
- In 2023, Bing held 2.7% global search engine market share
- The number of Google search queries per day is about 8.5 billion
- Google processes 99,000+ searches per second
- Average time on page for blogs was about 5 minutes in 2023
Website visitors rise with faster, mobile-friendly, Core Web Vitals scoring, plus SEO.
Website Traffic & Visits
Website Traffic & Visits Interpretation
Website Performance & Speed
Website Performance & Speed Interpretation
Website Traffic Sources & Channels
Website Traffic Sources & Channels Interpretation
Website Visitor Behavior
Website Visitor Behavior Interpretation
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