Numbers Galore: The Internet 2009, A Collection of Stats You'll Likely Keep All Year
Pingdom, a company that offers services to measure server uptime and performance monitoring along with letting the webmaster (in many cases that the server is down, has done one impressive job compiling a large amount of stats from a variety of sources (they're provided at the bottom of the post) about the Internet in 2009.
Here's a sample. The post itself has MANY more categories and numbers.
E-Mail
+ 90 trillion The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
+ 247 billion Average number of email messages per day.
+ 200 billion The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
+ 47 million Added websites in 2009.
Internet users
+ 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
+ 18% Increase in Internet users since the previous year
Social media
+ 4.25 million People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitters most followed user).
+ 350 million People on Facebook.
+ 50% Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
Video
+ 12.2 billion Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
+ 924 million Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
182 The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
+ 82% Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
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