Latest Press Release. The Touch-Friendly Web Keeps on Growing. In December 2009, mobile search engine Taptu found about 326,000 touch-optimized mobile sites on the Internet. By April 2010, this number had grown by over 35%. According to Taptu's latest report, there are now over 440,000 touch-enabled sites on the Web. The annual growth rate for touch-friendly websites is close to 230%. In comparison, Apple's App Store is currently seeing annual growth rates of around 144% and the Android store is growing at around 400% annually. Growing Much Faster than Expected In the company's last report, Taptu estimated that the size of touch-friendly Web would reach half a million sites by the end of the year and about 1 million by the end of 2011.
Given these new numbers, however, Taptu now estimates that there will be 1.1 million touch-optimized sites on the Web by the end of 2010. The reason for this rapid growth is surely the increasing popularity of touch-screen phones and touch-screen enabled devices like the iPad. Taptu: Virtual Roundtable. Q&A with Plextek Limited | UK Technology LIVE. News from Cambridge UK.