From its humble beginnings in 1968 at Stanford Research Institute, the Internet has grown well and truly beyond the expectation of its inventors. Reflecting on the following statistics it is almost impossible to imagine these same inventors, could have visualized the growth this technology would achieve, not to mention the impact it would have on society.
When you consider that 1.97 Billion users globally, perform over 300 Billion searches for products/services offered by 255 Million websites, it's not hard to understand why a small percentage of these websites owners are prepared to spend collectively in excess of 50 Billion Dollars to secure prominent Page-One search engine rankings, and as incredible as it sounds Google, are forecast to increase revenues by 20%.
Email Statistics
262 Billion spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
2.9 Billion email accounts worldwide.
25% of email accounts are corporate.
107 Trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
294 Billion email messages per day.
1.88 Billion email users worldwide.
480 Million new email users since the year before.
89.1% of emails were spam.
Images Statistics
5 Billion photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
3000+ photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
130 Million at the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
3+ Billion photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
36 Billion at the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
Videos Statistics
84% of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
14% of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
2+ Billion videos watched per month on Facebook.
20 Million videos uploaded to Facebook per month.
2 Billion videos watched per day on YouTube.
35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
186 online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
Social Media Statistics
30 Billion pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.
70% of Facebook’s user base outside the United States.
20 Million Facebook apps installed each day.
152 million blogs on the Internet.
25 Billion tweets on Twitter in 2010
100 Million new accounts added on Twitter in 2010
175 Million people on Twitter as of September 2010
600 Million people on Facebook at the end of 2010.
250 Million new people on Facebook in 2010.
Web Servers Statistics
39.1% Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
15.3% Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
4.1% Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
5.8% Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
55.7% Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.
Domain Name Statistics
88.8 Million .COM domain names at the end of 2010.
13.2 Million .NET domain names at the end of 2010.
8.6 Million .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.
79.2 Million country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
202 Million domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).
7% increase in domain names since the year before
Website Statistics
255 Million websites as of December 2010.
21.4 Million Added websites in 2010.
Internet Users Statistics
204.7 Million Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
110.9 Million Internet users in Africa.
63.2 Million Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 Million Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
1.97 Billion Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
14% Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
825.1 Million Internet users in Asia.
475.1 Million Internet users in Europe.
266.2 Million Internet users in North America.
