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The digital footprint gap: web traffic across 15 sectors

Median website traffic differs 10x between sectors. 'Every business is digital', the medians disagree.

Veltria Research·2026-05-22·5 min read
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The digital footprint gap: web traffic across 15 sectors

Everyone measures digital maturity by survey. We measured it by traffic: yearly website visits across the market, sector by sector. First, the honest caveat: traffic data exists for 15.7% of companies in our dataset (small-site traffic is hard to estimate), so treat these as medians of the measurable web, not gospel.

The claim

Every business is a digital business now.

Source: ubiquitous keynote line since roughly 2015

Our data says

The medians say otherwise. The median hospitality & travel company gets 50,562 visits a year; the median construction & real estate company gets 13,230, a 4x gap. Construction, logistics and agriculture firms operate near-invisible web presences even at $50M+ revenue. Digital is a sector property, not an era property.

Median yearly website visits by sectorMedian of companies with measurable traffic (15.7% of dataset).
Hospitality / Travel51k
Retail / Consumer42k
Public Sector / Non-Profit35k
Education34k
Food / Beverage33k
Healthcare / Life Sciences24k
Technology / Software22k
Media / Entertainment22k
Financial Services21k
Manufacturing / Industrial17k
Agriculture17k
Business / Professional Services15k
Energy / Utilities14k
Transportation / Logistics14k
Construction / Real Estate13k

Source: Veltria dataset, 4,840,019 companies, computed 2026-07-09.

Why low-traffic sectors are the interesting ones

  • For digital agencies & SaaS: a $30M construction firm with 15k yearly visits is not a bad lead, it is a greenfield one. The low-footprint sectors are where digitisation budgets go next.
  • For investors: weak web presence correlates with founder-owned, under-marketed businesses, the classic "great company, terrible website" value signal.
  • For analysts: traffic is a usable proxy for B2C exposure. Retail, hospitality and media dominate the top; pure B2B sectors cluster at the bottom.

Traffic estimates ship with every record that has them, filter the low-footprint sectors and go find the greenfield.

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Every number in this piece was computed from our dataset of 4.8 million companies. You can buy the exact slice of data behind this analysis, or build your own custom list.