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The Internet by the Numbers: 2010
Posted on 14.10.2011 by John Bailey
The team over at Pingdom had their googling monkeys run some numbers on the Internet. Here's the full data overload with some highlights below:
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107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
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294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
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1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
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480 million – New email users since the year before.
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89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
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262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
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2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.
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25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.
Websites
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255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
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21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.
Internet users
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1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
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14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
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825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
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475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
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266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
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204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
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110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
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63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
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21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media
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152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
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25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
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100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
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175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010
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7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
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600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
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250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.
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30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
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70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
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20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.
Videos
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2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
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35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
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186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
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84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
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14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
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2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
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20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.
Images
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5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
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3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
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130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
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3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
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36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
Full report here.
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| John Bailey previously served as Deputy Policy Director at the US Department of Commerce, and most recently served at the White House as part of the President’s domestic policy council where he was responsible for coordinating education and labor issues including stabilizing student loans. From 1995 to 2001, John served as Pennsylvania’s first Director of Educational Technology where he led the development of several initiates to expand online learning and improve the use of technology in education. In addition to his experience in government, John has also worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he managed a portfolio of national advocacy grants. In 2009, John was named as one of the 25 American Council on Germany “Young Leaders” to participate in an annual conference with German business, finance and government professionals. He was also selected by eSchoolNews as one of the most influential leaders in the education technology industry. |