State of the Irish Web – March 2012

The Irish webscape is complex even though it is only approximately 350K domains in size. Not all of it is hosted on Irish IP addresses or webhosters. The website percentages below are based on a crawl and categorisation of detected Irish websites. The Active/Unclassified percentage is the core of the Irish web. Brand protection tends to be large companies protecting their brand across various TLDs. Clones are effectively multiple domains pointing to single websites without 301 or 302 redirects.

HosterStats.com – Irish Webscape – March 2012
Active/Unclassified — 44.5045%
Brand Protection — 2.4359%
Clones — 3.0023%
In page Redirects — 1.7684%
External TLD Redirects — 3.9020%
Forbidden — 1.2093%
Government/Education — 0.0395%
Holding Pages — 14.2133%
Internal Site Redirect — 5.1853%
Matched External TLD redirect — 2.8964%
Duplicate Content Networks — 0.0242%
PPC Parking — 14.4844%
Redirects (unclassified) — 0.3687%
For Sale — 0.0220%
Unavailable — 0.3738%
Hacked/Compromised — 0.0679%
Redirect to other site in same TLD — 5.5020%