Pingdom is a Swedish company that
specialises in monitoring uptime for online resources (server resources and
actual websites). They also maintain a blog where as they say “also ramble and
muse about technology in general, and the Internet and web technology, in
particular”. One of the interesting data collection and collation that they do
allows them to present an annual report on the Internet doings (The Internet in
Numbers).
How many emails were sent
during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser?
How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer
for you. To bring you these answers, Pingdom “have gone to the ends of the web
– wherever that is – and back again, and compiled a list of truly fascinating
facts about the year that was. Some of the numbers are snapshots taken during
the year, others cover the entire period. Either way, they all contribute to
giving us a better understanding of Internet in 2012”.
Some interesting measurements :
(visit the Pingdom page, to
access the individual numbers’ sources, plus a wealth of more informative
collected measurements on other topics as well, such as video & images
traffics) :
2.2 Billion – Number of email
users worldwide.
144 Billion – Total email
traffic per day worldwide.
61% – Share of emails
that were considered non-essential.
68.8% – Percentage of
all email traffic that was spam.
634 Million – Number of
websites (December 2012).
51 Million – Number of
websites added during the year (2012).
87.8
Million – Number of Tumblr blogs.
59.4
Million – Number of WordPress sites around the world.
$2.45
Million – The price for Investing.com, the most expensive domain name sold in
2012.
2.4 Billion – Number of
Internet users worldwide.
565 Million – Number of
Internet users in China
1 Billion – Number of
monthly active users on Facebook, passed in October.
2.7 Billion – Number of likes
on Facebook every day.
40.5
years – Average age of a Facebook user.
200 Million – Monthly active
users on Twitter, passed in December.
175 Million – Average number
of tweets sent every day throughout 2012.
37.3
years – Average age of a Twitter user.
1.2 Trillion – Number of
searches on Google in 2012.
67% – Google’s
market-leading share of the U.S.
5 Billion – Number of
mobile broadband subscriptions.
6.7
Billion – Number of mobile subscriptions.
59% – Share of global
mobile data traffic that was video.
[Ref.] The Internet in
Numbers report http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/01/16/internet-2012-in-numbers/,
with links to previous years’ reports.
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