UK Web sites

[adamcmoran]

Can anyone point me in the right direction, I am trying to find out, how many UK businesses have web sites, how many this is, and any other general info of this nature can anyone suggest any web sites. Or know of any stats themselves.

Adam

[engine]

The silence on this one, Adam, suggests we're stumped.

I don't know there is any one place to go to find the info. Companies house lists all the companies and Nominet lists all the domains (not sites).

The bigger search services, such as Google, contain the indexed data and something like Yell has an extensive list of firms, but not websites.

Not sure it has helped on this one.

[TallTroll]

Its a difficult one. Depending on who you ask, you'll get wildly different answers on the number of UK businesses, never mind how many have websites.

Companies House only records info on certain types of businesses (notably limited companies), and Nominet only records domain info, which as engine points out, says nothing about actual sites. Also, consider how many UK companies have .com domains, and how many non-UK companies have .co.uk domains

Isn't this fun? :)

[engine]

Some facts have come to light:

- 200,000 commercial web sites in the UK (DTI figures) brochure pages, simple sites through to BA and Tesco etc.
- 20,000 have e-commerce facilities of some form (again DTI)
- 9500 companies have advertised on the web - with an aim to drumming up UK business in 2001
- c 5000 of these are British based

According to my source, they estimate that there are 2500 bodies in the UK investing a substanial sum on developing their sites and take ebusiness very seriously. The ones with obvious revenue models and clear paths to profitability are in ; finance, travel, shopping and @dult.

It would be interesting to know if anyone else has stats to help expand this further.

[DML]

Try here [statistics.gov.uk...]

[tweak]

Not sure if this is helpful, but I know that there are at least 15,000 business sites in the east midlands (Lincs, Leics, Notts, Derbys & Northants) - because we have a list of those 15k.

[engine]

Tweak, welcome to wmw and I hope you find it an interesting and useful resource.

Thanks for the information.

[tigger]

tweak.

Did you buy that information? If so could you drop me a stickymail with the details.

P.S stickymail is the internal mail systems used at WmW you can find a link to it on the top of the page

ta

[tweak]

Thank you for the welcome! I have been finding it very useful while I've been lurking...

This list is actually the list of submitted sites to the search engine that I "maintain". Our current privacy policy prohibits us reselling the list, so I can't really help you. Sorry.

tweak

ps - sorry for the delayed response - holidays 'n such...