Web CEO Metrics – February, 2010

Here we are sharing the generalized numbers from our HitLens Web Analytics service. It covers 300,000+ websites from all over the world.

Microsoft’s Bing has grown its number of queries from 5% to 8% of global searches. Little by little, Yahoo’s visitors are declining with 8% of all Internet searches compared to the previous year’s 9%. Google continues to dominate – it refers 81% of all searches.

Global Search Engines(%)

You can see how visitors are being referred to websites.

Search engines hold the first place as a principal site visitor referrer, and their share has significantly grown compared to February 2009. Bookmarking and linking, with shares fluctuating between 20% and 22% during the last year, refer an almost equal number of visitors. The number of search marketers who use paid advertising has increased.

Visitor Referrers (%)