Some absolutely mind-boggling stats about the state of the Internet in 2010 via Pingdom. The numbers reminded me of this quote from John Piper: “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
- 107 trillion — The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
- 294 billion — Average number of email messages per day.
- 1.88 billion — The number of email users worldwide.
- 480 million — New email users since the year before.
- 89.1% — The share of emails that were spam.
- 262 billion — The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
- 2.9 billion — The number of email accounts worldwide.
- 25% — Share of email accounts that are corporate.
Websites
- 255 million — The number of websites as of December 2010.
- 21.4 million — Added websites in 2010.
Internet users
- 1.97 billion — Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
- 14% — Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
- 825.1 million — Internet users in Asia.
- 475.1 million — Internet users in Europe.
- 266.2 million — Internet users in North America.
- 204.7 million — Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
- 110.9 million — Internet users in Africa.
- 63.2 million — Internet users in the Middle East.
- 21.3 million — Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media
- 152 million — The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
- 25 billion — Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
- 100 million — New accounts added on Twitter in 2010
- 175 million — People on Twitter as of September 2010
- 7.7 million — People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).
- 600 million — People on Facebook at the end of 2010.
- 250 million — New people on Facebook in 2010.
- 30 billion — Pieces of content (links, notes, photos) shared on Facebook per month.
- 70% — Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.
- 20 million — The number of Facebook apps installed each day.
Videos
- 2 billion — The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.
- 35 — Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- 186 — The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
- 84% — Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
- 14% — Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).
- 2+ billion — The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.
- 20 million — Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.
Images
- 5 billion — Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).
- 3000+ — Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.
- 130 million — At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
- 3+ billion — Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
- 36 billion — At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.