Balacruse » Internet http://balacruse.com Advertise Your World Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:38:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Internet 2009 in numbers http://balacruse.com/2010/05/internet-2009-in-numbers/ http://balacruse.com/2010/05/internet-2009-in-numbers/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 17:24:49 +0000 admin http://balacruse.com/?p=60 www 2009What happened with the Internet in 2009?

How many websites were added?
How many emails were sent?
How many blog posts were published?  We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. Below are the source references in details.

 

Email

  • 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).

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    Websites

  • 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
  • 47 million – Added websites in 2009.

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    Web servers

  • 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
  • -22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
  • 35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
  • 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
  • -72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.
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    Domain names

  • 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
  • 12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
  • 7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
  • 76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
  • 187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
  • 8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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    Malicious software

  • 148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
  • 2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
  • 921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.
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    How many websites were added?
    How many emails were sent?
    How many blog posts were published?  We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. Below are the source references in details.

    Email

    • 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
    • 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
    • 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.
    • 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

    Websites

    • 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
    • 31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.

    Web servers

    • 24.4% – The growth of Apache websites in 2008.
    • 13.7% – The growth of IIS websites in 2008.
    • 22.2% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2008
    • 336.8% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2008.
    • 100.3% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2008.

    Domain names

    • 77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
    • 77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
    • 7.2 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2008.
    • 174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
    • 19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.

    Internet users

    • 1,463,632,361 – The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
    • 578,538,257 – Internet users in Asia.
    • 384,633,765 – Internet users in Europe.
    • 248,241,969 – Internet users in North America.
    • 139,009,209 – Internet users in Latin America/Caribbean.
    • 51,065,630 – Internet users in Africa.
    • 41,939,200 – Internet users in the Middle East.
    • 20,204,331 – Internet users in Oceania/Australia.

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    Blogs

    • 133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).
    • 900,000 – The number of new blog posts in a day.
    • 329 million – The number of blog posts in 2008.

    Images

    • 10 billion – Photos hosted by Facebook (October 2008).
    • 3 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (November 2008).
    • 6.2 billion – Photos hosted by Photobucket (October 2008).

    Videos

    • 12.7 billion – The number of online videos watched by American Internet users in a month (November 2008).
    • 87 – The number of online videos viewed per month per Internet user in USA.
    • 34% – The increase in viewing of online video in USA compared to 2007.
    • 3.1 – The number of minutes of an average online video.

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    Malicious software

    • 1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
    • 468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.
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