Amazing Internet Statistics

DURING 2012

144 billion Emails were sent per day during the year, of which 68.8% were spam.
43% of the top 1 million websites were Hosted In The US.
4 Billion Hours of video was viewed via YouTube each month.
7 PBs (petabytes, or 10 to the 15th power) of Photo Content was added to Facebook every month.

• Asia: 1.1 billion Internet users
• Europe: 519 million
• North America: 274 million
• Latin America / Caribbean: 255 million
• Africa: 167 million
• Middle East: 90 million
• Oceania/Australia: 24.3 million

LESS THAN HALF THE WORLD HAS INTERNET ACCESS! Imagine when the entire world does….

DOMAIN NAMES

• Stats on Web domains as of December 2012, from Verisign:
• Number of domain name registrations across all top-level domains: 246 million
• Number of country code top-level domain name registrations: 104.9 million
• Number of .com domain names: 100 million
• Number of .net domain names: 14.1 million
• Number of .org domain names: 9.7 million
• Number of .info domain names: 6.7 million
• Number of .biz domain names: 2.2 million

WEBSITES

• Total number of websites as of December 2012: 634 million
• Number of websites added in 2012: 52 million
• Share of the top 100 blogs powered by WordPress: 48%
• Share of the top 10,000 websites served by open source software: 75%

EMAIL

• Number of email users worldwide: 2.2 billion
• Total email traffic per day worldwide: 144 billion messages
• Number of email clients worldwide: 4.3 billion
• Number of email users worldwide: 2.2 billion
• Number of active Gmail users globally, making it the leading email provider worldwide: 425 million.
• Usage share of iOS, the most popular email client: 35.6%

FACEBOOK STATS

• Number of monthly posts by Facebook Pages in Brazil, making it the most active country on Facebook: 85,962
• Number of monthly active users on Facebook: 1.15 billion
• Percentage of Facebook users who are woman: 47%
• Average age of a Facebook user: 40.5
• Number of likes posted on Facebook every day: 2.7 billion
• Share of the top 10,000 websites integrated with Facebook: 24.3%

TWITTER STATS

• Twitter Launch Date: March 1, 2006
• Total Number of Twitter users: 500+ million
• Total numbers of tweets sent: 170 billion
• Monthly active Twitter users: 200 million
• Average Number of Followers per Twitter User: 208
• Average number of tweets send per day: 400 million

LINKEDIN

• LinkedIn launch date: May 5, 2003
• Total number of LinkedIn users: 225 million
• Total number of LinkedIn Business pages: 2.7 million
• Geographical Reach: 200 countries

PINTEREST

• Pinterest Launch date: March 2010
• Total number of Pinterest users: 70 million
• Percentage of total Pinterest pins are repins: 80%
• Pinterest brand with the most followers: Nordstrom, 4.4 million

GOOGLE PLUS

• Google Plus started in 2011 as a Beta version
• Total active users: 343 million
• Google Plus is now the second largest social networking platform behind Facebook.

SEARCH ENGINES

• 67% of search traffic goes through Google.
• 15% of search traffic goes through Bing.
• 13% of search traffic goes through Yahoo.
• 95% of search traffic goes through Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
• There are approximately 200 billion searches made per month.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• 133,000 of the top 1 million sites are on WordPress
• 55,000 of the top 1 million sites are on Drupal
• 52,000 of the top 1 million sites are on Joomla

ECOMMERCE

• Over 1 trillion dollars was sold online in 2012 Worldwide.
• The United States led all countries with 343 billion dollars in sales.
• The top eCommerce platform is Magento eCommerce powering over 200 thousand stores online.