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Where are your users from? - (By SQL Email Domain)

19 Apr 2009

Ever wondered who your users use as their email provider? Who are the biggest email providers of the users on your website? Luckily SQL has the answer in 1 easy step using the SUBSTRING_INDEX string function.

mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) AS Total, 
  SUBSTRING_INDEX(email, '@', -1) AS Domain
  FROM users 
  GROUP BY SUBSTRING_INDEX(email, '@', -1)
  ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
  LIMIT 10;
+-------+------------------+
| Total | Domain           |
+-------+------------------+
|  1000 | hotmail.com      |
|   999 | yahoo.co.uk      |
|   888 | aol.com          |
|   777 | btinternet.com   |
|   666 | yahoo.com        |
|   555 | hotmail.co.uk    |
|   444 | gmail.com        |
|   333 | ntlworld.com     |
|   222 | tiscali.co.uk    |
|   111 | eircom.net       |
+-------+------------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)