The e-commerce sector is getting fiercer day by day with the competition getting heated up between big brothers in Indian shopping arena which are Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon, Jabong and ShopClues.

Based on the report from SimilarWeb which measures website and mobile app around the world, it says that India is currently the worlds hottest smartphone market with e-commerce sector seeing a the maximum growth, and huge opportunity in future.

According to the report, it estimates that by the end of 2015, India’s e-commerce sales will grow to $16 billion, which is 364% more than the $4.4 billion generated in 2010. This triggered Amazon to invest $2 billion in its Indian e-commerce operations this year.

Also, the app usage in India is growing significantly, which grew 131% in one year, from rate of 21% a year earlier in May 2014, to 54% in May 2015.

So, this means that e-commerce apps in India will be see big opportunities in future. The combination of demand for smartphone with lower bandwidth costs for internet in both urban and rural India will open doors for more players to take part in this growing sector.

Some more statistics that the report provides are –

Indian women spends two hours in average each month on shopping apps, which is 16 minutes more than men.

Smartphone users in India spends an average of nearly three hours on their devices.

Android in India dominates OS with 62% market share.

By 2017, India will have more consumers buying phones than in US.

The report says, Flipkart and its fashion-focused Myntra unit have a 60% market share of Daily Active Users (DAU) out of India’s top six Android e-commerce apps. The others includes Snapdeal, Amazon, Jabong and ShopClues.

Snapdeal’s share declined to 24% in January to 19% in July. Amazon saw growth in its android app share with 12% increase. Jabong and ShopClues both had share hovering around 5%.

It also provided glance to the web traffic usage across desktop and mobile. Interestingly, Amazon mobile web traffic has surpassed Flipkart in April.

Looking at the current trend, the Indian consumers are getting more and more dependent on mobile devices and less on desktop computers, so Flipkart is clearly seen as the market leader in this space.