There are more than 1.86 billion websites on the internet. Around 1% of these — something like 18,500,000 — are infected with malware at a given time each week; while the average website is attacked 44 times every day.

Sitelock has published its Q4 2017 Website Security Insider analysis of malware and websites based on statistics from 6 million of its 12 million customers. All these customers use at least one of Sitelock’s malware scanners, while a smaller subset also use the firm’s cloud-based web application firewall (WAF). The WAF provides insight into DDoS attacks against websites, while the scanners provide insight to the state of malware in websites.