Internet 2011 in Numbers
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jan, 2012So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? 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?
We’ve got answers to these questions and many more. A veritable smorgasbord of numbers, statistics and data lies in front of you. Using a variety of sources we’ve compiled what we think are some of the more interesting numbers that describe the Internet in 2011. From Royal Pingdom
From Celia: a few figures that caught my attention
19% – Percentage of spam emails delivered to corporate email inboxes despite spam filters.
71% – Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam (November 2011).
40 – Years since the first email was sent, in 1971.
Internet users
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
118.6 million – Internet users in Africa.