Web CEO Metrics – September, 2009

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

Global Search Engines (%)

This chart gives the idea of the market share of each of the three major search engines. The situation of search engine referrers is predictable. Google with its 79% remains the leading referrer and strenghtens its position by improving search options. Yahoo does not make progress, and Bing keeps its position.

Visitor Referrers (%)

You can see how visitors are being referred to websites. September 2008 is remembered as a critical point of the world economic depression. Since that time we’ve been watching a constant decrease of paid advertising. Instead, search engines and bookmarking became more popular visitor referrers.