Internet
- The Linkscape Web Index indexes an incredible 39,821,634,471 (39.8 Billion) pages on the internet and they aren’t indexing near the number of Webpages that Google, Yahoo/Bing etc. are. There are still very many pages that aren’t being indexed so the true number of Websites and Webpages out there is much much bigger.
- Google estimates the internet at about 5 million terabytes of data, which is 5 billion gigabytes, or 5 trillion megabytes.
- The human brain could hold an estimated 1 to 10 terabytes. It would take about a million human brains to store the internet, or 1 billion DVDs or 200 million blu-rays.
- World average internet population is about 27%, North America is leading with more than 76%.
- In 2010 people watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos! That is 700,000,000,000. Over 35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- As at September 2010, 3,000 images per minute were uploaded to Flickr and over 5 billion images had been uploaded.
- 247 billion emails are sent every day, 81% are spam though. 90 trillion emails were sent every year.
- Akismet spam comment filter has saved an incredible 20,892,632,758 spam comments from cluttering up Blogs (that’s about 30 million spam comments per day).
Social media
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook, there are over 600 million active users and half of these access Facebook EVERY DAY, 200 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices.
- There were 25 billion Tweets in 2010 and 100 million new registered accounts.
- The average Facebook user is connected to 80 community sites, blogs, etc.
- 30 million pieces of content are shared a month on Facebook and the average person creates 90 unique pieces of information.
- Mobile Facebook users are twice as active as those who access through computer alone.
- Since April 2010, 10,000 new sites integrate with Facebook everyday.
- 21% 0f tweeters follow 100 people or more.
- 16% of people on twitter have over 100 followers.
- 44% of tweeters provide a website URL.
- 89% of people use blogs and other social media to research the latest stories and gossip.
- 32% of buyers post questions on social media sites.
- 89% of journalists use blogs for story research, 65% turn to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and 52% utilize microblogging services such as Twitter.
Mobile
- Over 300,000 Android devices and 270,000 iPhones are activated every day.
- Smartphone sales increased by 96% worldwide from 2009 to 2010 whilst mobile phone sales increased by 35%.
- By 2015, 4 major regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East) and 40 countries (including India, Indonesia, and Nigeria) will have more people with mobile network access than with access to electricity at home.
- Global mobile data traffic grew 2.6-fold in 2010, nearly tripling for the third year in a row.
- Last year’s mobile data traffic was three times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000.
- Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent for the first time in 2011.
