Web CEO Metrics – August, 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. As expected, Google’s share hasn’t changed, while Microsoft has risen its positions in search industry by introducing Bing, a next generation search engine from Microsoft.

Visitor Referrers (%)

You can see how visitors are being referred to websites. The increased search engines’ and bookmarks’ shares denote the overall tendency: people are looking for cheaper alternative ways to be found in search results.