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.
• 11.8 million – .NET 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

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.

Original post is from here

Tags: internet

It’s the year of change. Internet is at the center of all the changes. Omaba represents all the possible bigger changes from all perspectives. I can’t wait to see more exciting things / changes to come online.

“The Internet has not seen anything like it until yesterday with the inauguration of the new President, Barack Obama. Internet traffic hit a record high - slowing, but not crippling the Internet. Online traffic to view live video streams of the big event spiked so high that the Internet’s top 40 sites slowed by as much as 60 percent when the ceremony started at 11 a.m. according to Keynote Systems.” (from WebGuild)

And, “at precisely 9:01 AM PST, after President Barack Obama took the oath of office, the Government of the United States of America launched a new Website for the White House, which is the official office and residence of the President of The United States of America.” (from WebGuild)

Most of the social media sites have participated in Obama’s campaign. The two sites - change.gov and the new one whitehouse.gov - are all well designed and full of social media tools. This is so exciting!

Tags: internet, obama, social media