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The Gmail web client is the 2nd largest email client, at about 30% market share. The number of people who use gmail but use an email client instead of the web c
by jcranmer 5y ago
The Gmail web client is the 2nd largest email client, at about 30% market share. The number of people who use gmail but use an email client instead of the web client is going to be much, much higher. (Especially when you include people whose clients automatically block the tracking pixels used to generate these statistics, which is sadly few of the clients).
The vast majority of email routes through a few major email service providers, with gmail the largest, but MS (via O365 hosting) and Yahoo are also likely double-digit market share.
- sbuk 5y agoHow much traffic does that generate? On average, there are ~300 billion messages sent daily - the majority coming from automated services and/or bulk messaging providers. Sure, Gmail and Google Workspaces have a lot of "market share", but that is meaningless in the context of worldwide mail-flow.
- pixl97 5y agoIn this case, the context of worldwide mail flow may be a meaningless statistic. Sending messages to real individuals for purposes of commerce is going to be much more important to a companies profit, than say a script sending out a message saying "This task completed successfully" to an email address.