Amazing Internet Statistics

Isaiah Bollinger

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 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 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.