I think we can agree that 2011 was a hectic year for pretty much everyone. The web also continued to grow at an enormous rate, we all know that, but how about some figures to put that into perspective.
Well Web Traffic Monitoring Company Pingdom made it their business to track what we all got up to last year. They recently released a report on what we all got up to last year, and I think you’ll agree that there’s some pretty crazy figures in there.
Have a look at some of these:
- 3.146 Billion email accounts worldwide
- 112 emails sent and received everyday by the average corporate user
- 71% of email traffic was spam
- 40 years since the first email was sent
- 800+ million Facebook users
- 200 million new Facebook users in 2011
- 350 million Facebook users who log in with Mobile Phones
- 100 billion estimated number of pictures on Facebook
- 225 million Twitter accounts
- 18.1 million people followed Lady Gaga (most popular user)
- 250 million average number of tweets a day
- 70 million WordPress Blogs
- 2.4 billion Social networking accounts worldwide
- 1 trillion number of video playbacks on YouTube
- 140 number of playbacks per person
- 48 hours worth of video uploaded every minute
- 4,189,214 new users on Vimeo
- 201.4 billion videos watched online every month
- 4.5 million pictures uploaded to Flickr everyday
- 6 billion photos on Flickr
- 555 million websites
- 300 million new websites in 2011
- 95.5 million .com domain names
- 13.8 million .net domain names
- 9.3 million .org domain names
- 220 million registered domain names
- $2.6 million the price of the most expensive domain name sold in 2011 (social.com)
- 2.1 Billion internet uses worldwide
- 45% of internet users are under the age of 25
- 591 million fixed broadband subscriptions worldwide
- 5.9 billion estimated mobile phone subscriptions worldwide
Now they are some pretty mind boggling figures! It’s hard to even imagine how Pingdom even managed to track all of this data. One things for sure though, these figures will continue to increase and grow next year as well.
What figure surprised/amazed you the most?
Let us know in the comments
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I wonder if these stats have any use at all for the common man:) Interesting read nevertheless.
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Interesting article, but I cannot understand the stats. I see the numbers, they’re amazing big, but I have nothing to compare with, they should be relative, but they only tell me that many people are using the net.
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How did you get that estimation! Very shocking! Perhaps we all notice that social media has a large widespread on the globe.
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Wow! thanks for the statistics, i didn’t know that we had over 8m facebook users and 3.146 Billion email accounts worldwide! Internet is becoming a big business… Keep sharing more stats, i love your site.
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Those figures are kind of shocking! I didn’t really expect those numbers to be quite that high. We really are in the computer age aren’t we? This was a very interesting and fun article to read. I wonder how much those figures are going to grow within the next year.
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After reading this I have concluded that FB is much used than Twitter :)
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This is quite interesting! I truly amazed me with this kind of research. I think now that its 2012 we can now see that the internet had began to shrink.
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