Internet Stats From 2011
Pingdom released internet usage for 2011, which covered everything from email accounts to mobile phones. posted
1. Internet users by region
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
476.2 million – Internet users in Europe.
271.1 million – Internet users in North America.
485 million – Number of Internet users in China
45% – Share of Internet users under the age of 25.
591 million – Number of (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.
2. Web browser
3.146 billion – Number of email accounts worldwide.
360 million – Total number of Hotmail users (largest email service).
112 – Number of emails sent and received per day by corporate user.
71% – Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam (November 2011).
555 million – Number of websites (December 2011).
95.5 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2011.
3. Online Video
1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
140 – The number of YouTube video playbacks per person on Earth.
48 hours – The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
82.5% – Percentage of the U.S. Internet audience that viewed video online.
4,189,214 – Number of new users on Vimeo
1 – The most viewed video on YouTube during 2011 was Rebecka Black’s “Friday.”
4. Social Media
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
200 million – Number of users added to Facebook during 2011.
2.4 billion – Social networking accounts worldwide.
2.6 billion – Worldwide IM accounts.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
250 million – Number of tweets per day (October 2011).
18.1 million – People following Lady Gaga. Twitter’s most popular user.
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