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, Twitter’s 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).
Again, more numbers and categories in the
complete post.
Source: Royal Pingdom via The Resourceshelf
