Do you know the hosting locations of the biggest websites in the world? More specifically, do you know in which cities they are located? We do, and now you can to. We show you were in the world the top 1 million web cites are hosted, in which cities.

1. pingdom.com
Hosting locations of the
world’s top one million
websites
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2. pingdom.com
You can read the full article at
http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/03/07/hosting-locations-2013/
Here is the short version.
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3. pingdom.com
In 2012, we found that 43% of the world’s top one
million sites were hosted in the United States.
But we felt eager to figure out more.
Exactly where are these sites are hosted? In
which city?
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4. pingdom.com
We found that 7,936 cities
host the top one million sites
in the world.
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5. pingdom.com
The top 10 cities hosts 223,206
sites.
That is over 22% of the top million.
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6. pingdom.com
The top three cities hosts
about 10% of the top million
websites.
(They are all U.S. cities)
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7. pingdom.com Top 20 web hosting cities
Houston 50,598
Mountain View 29,594
Dallas 24,822
Scottsdale 23,210
San Antonio 21,808
Provo 20,691
Ashburn 14,871 Number of sites
San Francisco 13,214 (out of the top
Chicago 13,125 1 million) hosted in
11,273 each city
Beijing
New York 10,006
Los Angeles 9,412
Lansing 8,170
Tokyo 7,588
Montreal 7,538
Culver City 7,380
Brea 7,349
Osaka 6,605
Atlanta 6,296
Amsterdam 6,063
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8. The top one million web sites
pingdom.com
hosting map
(The size of the dots signifies how many sites are hosted in each city)
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9. The United States has a crushing
lead in terms of hosting
locations.
But almost every part of the
world has at least some site
represented in the top million.
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10. pingdom.com
Source for top one million:
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
(Data collected 2013-02-27)
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