Web CEO Metrics – January, 2010

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

The January 2010 Google number is the same as in January 2009. The leading search engine firmly keeps its position on the search market. Bing’s share has grown, and it is obvious that this share has relocated from Yahoo.

Global Search Engines (%)

You can see how visitors are being referred to websites.

Search engines are referring more visitors than in January 2009, while linking and bookmarking are not so popular as before. Paid advertising is now more in demand – looks like companies are allocating more means to advertising this year.

Visitor Referrers (%)

This graph shows the web browser usage data for January 2010 compared to January 2009. Internet Explorer still adds up to 63% compared to 71% in 2009 which is a major amount of web surfers. Firefox is the second popular browser thanks to its free distribution and add-ons. Safari, Chrome, and Opera are gaining popularity because of their active usage in special web circles.

Browser Usage (%)