JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
The video goes quick so I jotted down the numbers below for us to analyze. Here are some interesting facts about the state of the Internet:
- 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009)
- 738,257,230 in Asia
- 418,209,796 in Europe
- 67,371,700 in Africa
- 20,371,700 in Oceania / Australia
- 179,031,479 in Latin America / Caribbean
- 252,908,000 in North America
- 90 trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2009
- 247 billion is the average number of emails per day, 200 billion of those emails are SPAM (81%)
- 1.4 billion email users worldwide
- 234 million websites as of December 2009
- 126 million blogs on the Internet
- 84% – Percentage of social network sites with more women than men
- 27.3 million tweets per day on Twitter (November, 2009)
- Ashton Kutcher has 4.25 million followers on Twitter (@aplusk)
- Facebook serves up 260 billion page views per month (6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion page views in a year)
- Page Views per month
- Facebook 260 billion
- MySpcae 24 billion
- Twitter 4.4 billion
- LinkedIn 1.9 billion
- Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers to run the site
- 350 million people on Facebook
- 2.5 billion photos uploaded each month to Facebook (about 30 billion a year)
- There are 4 billion photos hosted on Flickr (October 2009)
- YouTube serves up 12.2 billion videos per month in the US
- Hulu serves up 924 million per month in the US
- The average person watches 182 videos per month on the Internet in the US (82% of us)
- 148,000 new zombie computers created per day
- 2.6 million malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc)
- Page Views per month