Facts and figures of Internet Usage for 2012

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Brush up your general knowledge and be astonished at the Facts and figures of Internet Usage for 2012

Email
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.
4.3 billion – Number of email clients worldwide in 2012.
35.6% – Usage share of the most popular email client, which was Mail for iOS.
425 million – Number of active Gmail users globally, making it the leading email provider worldwide.
68.8% – Percentage of all email traffic that was spam.
50.76% – Percentage of all spam that was about pharmaceuticals, the top category of all spam.
0.22% – Share of worldwide emails that comprised some form of phishing attack.
Web pages, websites, and web hosting
634 million – Number of websites (December).
51 million – Number of websites added during the year.
43% – Share of the top 1 million websites that are hosted in the U.S.
48% – Share of the the top 100 blogs that run WordPress.
75% – Share of the top 10,000 websites that are served by open source software.
87.8 million – Number of Tumblr blogs.
17.8 billion – Number of page views for Tumblr.
59.4 million – Number of WordPress sites around the world.
3.5 billion – Number of webpages run by WordPress viewed each month.
37 billion – Number of pageviews for Reddit.com in 2012.
35% – The average web page became this much larger during 2012.
4% – The average web page became this much slower to load during 2012.
191 million – Number of visitors to Google Sites, the number 1 web property in the U.S. in November.
Web servers
-6.7% – Decline in the number of Apache websites in 2012.
32.4% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2012.
36.4% – Growth in the number of NGINX websites in 2012.
15.9% – Growth in the number of Google websites in 2012.


Domain names
246 million – Number of domain name registrations across all top-level domains.
104.9 million – Number of country code top-level domain name registrations.
329 – Number of top level domains.
100 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2012.
14.1 million – Number of .net domain names at the end of 2012.
9.7 million – Number of .org domain names at the end of 2012.
6.7 million – Number of .info domain names at the end of 2012.
2.2 million – Number of .biz domain names at the end of 2012.
32.44% – Market share for GoDaddy.com, the biggest domain name registrar in the world.
$2.45 million – The price for Investing.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2012.
Internet users
2.4 billion – Number of Internet users worldwide.
1.1 billion – Number of Internet users in Asia.
519 million – Number of Internet users in Europe.
274 million – Number of Internet users in North America.
255 million – Number of Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
167 million – Number of Internet users in Africa.
90 million – Number of Internet users in the Middle East.
24.3 million – Number of Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
565 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any other country in the world.
42.1% – Internet penetration in China.




Social media
85,962 – Number of monthly posts per Facebook Page in Brazil, the most active country on Facebook.
1 billion – Number of monthly active users on Facebook, passed in October.
47% – Percentage of Facebook users that are female.
40.5 years – Average age of a Facebook user.
2.7 billion – Number of likes on Facebook every day.
24.3% – Share of the top 10,000 websites that have Facebook integration.
200 million – Monthly active users on Twitter, passed in December.
819,000+ – Number of retweets of Barack Obama’s tweet “Four more years”, the most retweets ever.
327,452 – Number of tweets per minute when Barack Obama was re-elected, the most ever.
729,571 – Number of messages per minute when the Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo saw 2012 finish and 2013 start.
9.66 million – Number of tweets during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 olympics.
175 million – Average number of tweets sent every day throughout 2012.
37.3 years – Average age of a Twitter user.
307 – Number of tweets by the average Twitter user.
51 – Average number of followers per Twitter user.
163 billion – the number of tweets since Twitter started, passed in July.
123 – Number of heads of state that have a Twitter account.
187 million – Number of members on LinkedIn (September).
44.2 years – Average age of a Linkedin user.
135 million – Number of monthly active users on Google+.
5 billion – How many times per day the +1 button on Google+ is used.
20.8% – Usage share of HootSuite as a social media management tool among the world’s top 100 brands.
Web browsers


Search
1.2 trillion – Number of searches on Google in 2012.
67% – Google’s market-leading share of the U.S. search market (December).
1 – The top trending question of the year on Ask.com: “Will Rob and Kristen get back together?”
Mobile
1.1 billion – Number of global smartphone subscribers.
6.7 billion – Number of mobile subscriptions.
5 billion – Number of mobile phone users.
5.3 billion – Number of mobile handsets.
1.3 billion – Number of smartphones in use worldwide by end of 2012.
465 million – Number of Android smartphones sold in 2012, a 66% market share.
31% – Percentage of the U.S. Internet population that used a tablet or e-reader.
13% – Mobile share of global Internet traffic.
5 billion – Number of mobile broadband subscriptions.
1.3 exabytes – Estimated global mobile data traffic per month in 2012.
59% – Share of global mobile data traffic that was video.
500 megabytes – Amount of monthly data traffic consumed by the average smartphone.
504 kbps – The average mobile network connection speed globally (all handsets).
1,820 kbps – The average mobile network connection speed globally (smartphones).
Video
14 million – Number of Vimeo users.
200 petabytes – Amount of video played on Vimeo during 2012.
150,648,303 – Number of unique visitors for video to Google Sites, the number one video property (September).
1 billion – PSY’s Gangnam Style video became the first online video to reach 1 billion views (currently just over 1.1 billion) and it achieved it in just 5 months.
2.7 billion – Number of views of videos uploaded to YouTube tagged Obama or Romney during the 2012 U.S. election cycle
2.5 million – Number of hours of news-related video that was uploaded to YouTube.
8 million – The number of concurrent viewers of the lifestream of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the edge of space, the most ever on YouTube.
4 billion – Number of hours of video we watched on YouTube per month.
60 million – Number of global viewers monthly on Ustream.
16.8 million – Number of total viewers in a 24 hour period for a video on Ustream, the most ever.
181.7 million – Number of total unique viewers of online video in the U.S. during December.
Images
7 petabytes – How much photo content Facebook added every month.
300 million – Number of new photos added every day to Facebook.
5 billion – The total number of photos uploaded to Instagram since its start, reached in September 2012.
58 – Number of photos uploaded every second to Instagram.
1 – Apple iPhone 4S was the most popular camera on Flickr.

Source : http : // royal.pingdom. com/2013/01/16/internet-2012-in-numbers/]Internet 2012 in numbers

 

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As of the third quarter of 2019, there are over 4.33 billion active internet users (Datareportal, 2019). That marks a 327 million year-over-year increase compared to 2018’s Q3 figures. At 8.2 percent, the growth in active internet users worldwide is more than eight times faster than the total population growth, which stands at one percent.

Considering there’s a global population of 7.74 billion people, that equates to an internet penetration rate of approximately 56 percent. In other words, more than half of the population worldwide are active internet users.

And with so many things to do online, it’s also important to know other internet usage statistics and more importantly, how internet users are spending their time online.

Watching videos is the most popular activity carried out by internet users: nine out of every ten internet users watch videos online. This is followed by streaming music (70 percent), watching vlogs (51 percent), listening to online radio (47 percent), and listening to podcasts (39 percent). The world has come a long way since the internet was made publicly available in 1991 – 28 years ago now. Nine years later at the turn of the millennium, 361 million people around the world had access to the internet.

Fast-forwarding nearly two decades to today, nearly six out of every ten, or 57.3 percent, to be exact, of the entire world’s population has internet access (Internet World Stats, 2019).

It should come as no surprise that, as the largest continent, Asia is home to the majority of global internet users.

Of the 4.33 billion active internet users, 2.4 billion (56 percent) are located in Asia. Europe and Africa have the second- and third-largest groups of internet users with 651 million and 453 million respectively.

Despite the prevalence of internet usage in Asia, it’s Africa that has the fastest-growing online population. Seven out of the ten fastest growing online populations are based in Africa, with Western Sahara leading the charge – as of January 2019, the number of internet users in the region has grown 364 percent year-over-year.There are currently 3.9 billion unique mobile internet users worldwide, representing around 51 percent of the global population (Statista, 2019).

That means that out of the 5.1 billion mobile phone owners in the world, more than three-quarters use their phones to access the internet.

In fact, mobile phones are the most popular device with which users access the internet – 50.6 percent of overall web traffic comes through mobile phones. That’s even more than laptops and computers (45.5 percent) and tablet devices (3.75 percent) combined.

And it probably wouldn’t be surprising if the number of mobile internet users continues to grow. This is especially likely because of the increasing speeds of mobile internet connections, which has increased by 19 percent from 2018 to 2019.Given that there are so many things to do online, the next internet usage statistic shouldn’t surprise many – on average, internet users spend 6 hours and 30 minutes online each day (Bond Cap, 2019).

As an ecommerce business owner, you may be interested to know just how internet users are spending their time on ecommerce activities online.

The latest figures show that 91 percent of internet users visit online stores, 84 percent carry out online searches for a product or service to purchase, and 77 percent follow through with their purchases.

Online shopping and browsing aside, social media is also where internet users spend a large bulk of their time. In fact, the average person spends over two hours a day on social media, and usage is highest among Millennials followed by Generation X.