Very cool little video here by Jess3 documenting Internet growth and activity. Ironically, Berin sent it to me as Adam Marcus and I were updating the lengthy list of Net & online media stats you’ll find down below. Many of the stats we were compiling are shown in the video. Enjoy!
1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of Sept 2009; an 18% increase from the previous year.[1]
81.8 million .COM domain names at the end of 2009; 12.3 million .NET names & 7.8 million .ORG names.[2]
234 million websites as of Dec 2009; 47 million were added in 2009.[3] In 2006, Internet users in the United States viewed an average of 120.5 Web pages each day.[4]
There are roughly 26 million blogs on the Internet[5] and even back in 2007, there were over 1.5 million new blog posts every day (17 posts per second).[6]Continue reading →
Most of you have probably already seen this but Pingdom recently aggregated and posted some amazing stats about “Internet 2009 In Numbers.” Worth checking them all out, but here are some highlights:
1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of Sept 2009; 18% increase in Internet users since previous year.
81.8 million .COM domain names at the end of 2009; 12.3 million .NET & 7.8 million .ORG
234 million websites as of Dec 2009; 47 million were added in 2009.
90 trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2009; 1.4 billion email users worldwide.
26 million blogs on the Internet.
27.3 million tweets on Twitter per day as of Nov 2009.
350 million people on Facebook; 50% of them log in every day; + 500,000 active Facebook applications.
4 billion photos hosted by Flickr as of Oct 2009; 2.5 billion photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
1 billion videos served by YouTube each day; 12.2 billion videos viewed per month; 924 million videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US as of Nov 2009; + the average Internet user in the US watches 182 online videos each month.
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