tisdag, januari 26, 2010

Internet in numbers



Email
•90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009
•247 billion – Average number of email messages per day
•1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide
•100 million – New email users since the year before
•81% – The percentage of emails that were spam
•92% – Peak spam levels late in the year
•24% – Increase in spam since last year
•200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam)

Websites
•234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
•47 million – Added websites in 2009.
Web servers
•13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
•-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
•35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
•384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
•-72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.

Domain names
•81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009
•12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009
•7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009
•76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.)
•187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009)
•8% – The increase in domain names since the year before

Internet users
•1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009)
•18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year
•738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia
•418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe
•252,908,000 – Internet users in North America
•179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean
•67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa
•57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East
•20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia