Statistics for Internet Usage in 2009
Remember not too long ago when pagers were the fad of the times? I believe I was pretty cool by knowing that “8181″ in pager code meant “bye-bye.” Well, at least, it did amongst my peers when I lived in San Gabriel Valley, California — where the Asian population ranked fairly high (in Chinese, “8-1-8-1″ sounds very similar to the English, “bye-bye”).
Then, remember when cell phones took over the pager fad? Ahem, Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell and his brick phone? I know I’m not getting any younger, but those days just don’t seem that long ago…
Well, whether it be by mp3 player, cell phone, portable gaming device, desktop, laptop or netbook, I’d say we are in the fad of Internet usage these days. Actually, I take that back, I don’t think it’s a fad — Internet is here to stay! Either way, Pingdom came out with interesting numbers today regarding Internet usage.
- 247 billion: average number of email messages sent per day
- 200 billion: number of spam emails per day (using the assumption that 81% of emails are spam)
- 100 million: new email users since 2008
Websites
- 47 million: new websites added in 2009
Internet Users
- 1.73 billion: Internet users wordwide
Social Media
- 126 million: blogs on the Internet
- 350 million: people on Facebook
- 50 percent: of Facebook users log on every day
Media
- 30 billion: images uploaded to Facebook per year (at a rate of 2.5 billion per month)
- 1 billion: total number of videos YouTube serves in one day
- 924 million: videos viewed on Hulu per month
Stunned? Shocked? Surprised? Not really? What do you think of these stats and Internet usage? Should more people be online? Do you feel like more people are online? Less? head over to Pingdom for more stats, surprising or not as they may be to you. Hit comment and tell us what you think!
