The Internet In Numbers; See What It Looks Like

Sometimes you may wonder what really is going on the Net statically speaking. How many email accounts were there in the world? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube?

Here are the stats from Pingdom:

Email

• 3.146 billion – Number of email accounts worldwide.
• 27.6% – Microsoft Outlook was the most popular email client.
• 19% – Percentage of spam emails delivered to corporate email inboxes despite spam filters.
• 112 – Number of emails sent and received per day by the average corporate user.
• 71% – Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam (November 2011).
• 360 million – Total number of Hotmail users (largest email service in the world).
• $44.25 – The estimated return on $1 invested in email marketing in 2011.
• 40 – Years since the first email was sent, in 1971.
• 0.39% – Percentage of email that was malicious (November 2011).

Domain names

• 95.5 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2011.
• 13.8 million – Number of .net domain names at the end of 2011.
• 9.3 million – Number of .org domains names at the end of 2011.
• 7.6 million – Number of .info domain names at the end of 2011.
• 2.1 million – Number of .biz domain names at the end of 2011.
• 220 million – Number of registered domain names (Q3, 2011).
• 86.9 million – Number of country code top-level domains (.CN, .UK, .DE, etc.) (Q3, 2011).
• 324 – Number of top-level domains.
• 28% – Market share for BIND, the number one DNS server type.
• $2.6 million – The price for social.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2011.

Internet users

• 2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
• 922.2 million – Internet users in Asia.
• 476.2 million – Internet users in Europe.
• 271.1 million – Internet users in North America.
• 215.9 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
• 118.6 million – Internet users in Africa.
• 68.6 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
• 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
• 45% – Share of Internet users under the age of 25.
• 485 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any other country in the world.
• 36.3% – Internet penetration in China.
• 591 million – Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.

Social media

• 800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
• 200 million – Number of users added to Facebook during 2011.
• 350 million – Number of Facebook users that log in to the service using their mobile phone.
• 225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
• 100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
• 18.1 million – People following Lady Gaga. Twitter’s most popular user.
• 250 million – Number of tweets per day (October 2011).
• 1 – #egypt was the number one hashtag on Twitter.
• 8,868 – Number of tweets per second in August for the MTV Video Music Awards.
• $50,000 – The amount raised for charity by the most retweeted tweet of 2011.
• 39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
• 70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
• 1 billion – The number of messages sent with WhatsApp during one day (October 2011).
• 2.6 billion – Worldwide IM accounts.
• 2.4 billion – Social networking accounts worldwide.

Websites

• 555 million – Number of websites (December 2011).
• 300 million – Added websites in 2011.

Mobile

• 1.2 billion – The number of active mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
• 5.9 billion – The estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
• 85% – Percentage of handsets shipped globally in 2011 that included a web browser.
• 88% – Apple iPad’s share of global tablet web traffic in December.

Images

• 14 million – Number of Instagram accounts created during 2011.
• 60 – The average number of photos uploaded per second to Instagram.
• 100 billion – Estimated number of photos on Facebook by mid-2011.
• 51 million – Total number of registered users on Flickr.
• 4.5 million – Number of photos uploaded to Flickr each day.
• 6 billion – Photos hosted on Flickr (August 2011).
• 1 – Apple iPhone 4 is the most popular camera on Flickr.

Web servers

• 239.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2011.
• 68.7% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2011.
• 34.4% – Growth in the number of NGINX websites in 2011.
• 80.9% – Growth in the number of Google websites in 2011.

Now let’s see it from another perspective. These info-graphics are courtesy of Intel

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And the future? The Web will surely become a virtual world with its own laws and inhabitants by 2050. The future…is exciting!