I stumbled upon something fun and interesting today that I thought would be worth sharing. Pingdom compiled and released a bunch of cool data from different resources on 2009 online usage.
Here are some of my favorite stats I thought you’d enjoy.You can check out the full report here.
- 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
- 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
- 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
- 100 million – New email users since the year before.
- 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
- 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
- 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
- 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Internet users
- 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
- 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
- 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
- 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
- 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
- 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
- 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
- 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
- 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media
- 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
- 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
- 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
- 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
- 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.
- 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
Images
- 4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
- 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
- 30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
Videos
- 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
- 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).
- 39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
- 81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.
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Holy cow!I had no idea that there was so much communication online.Well, that’s not actually true, I knew there was but those numbers are still mind blowing.
That is a truly impressive list of stats!
I cannot believe that the average internet user watches so many videos in a month That comes out to around 6 a day and there are a lot of people out there who do not watch videos at all
It is probably a portion of people who just do nothing but that online which is crazy
“27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)”
That’s almost 19,000 tweets per minute or over 300 per second… I wonder what that number will hit in 2010… I’d imagine it will probably double or more…
It really is about time someone come up with solid content on 2009 internet usage.
Saving yuor web blog to my favorites.
+1 within the publish, good data man
I need a custom twitter background made up, do you do that type of design work?
According to my thinking the person who is free in his life and no work that person see the videos.
I need to reply to a blog for my online class, here I am doing this. This has very interesting facts. Thank you.
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