Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Some numbers for you

Here's a few interesting statistics about the Internet from Royal Pingdom:
  • 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
  • 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
  • 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
  • 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
  • 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
  • 152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
  • 25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
  • 2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
  • 35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
  • 5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
  • 3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.

1 comment:

Carol- Beads and Birds said...

And that is how the internet became a necessity to some rather than a luxury.