Thursday, January 13, 2011

What happened with the Internet in 2010..???

How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place.

Email
  • 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.
  • 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
  • 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
  • 480 million – New email users since the year before.
  • 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.
  • 262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).
  • 2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.
  • 25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.
Websites
  • 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.
  • 21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.

Domain names
  • 88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.
  • 13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.
  • 8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.
  • 79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
  • 202 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).
  • 7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.
Internet users
  • 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
  • 14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
  • 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
  • 475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
  • 266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
  • 204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
  • 110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
  • 63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
  • 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Web servers
  • 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
  • 15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
  • 4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
  • 5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
  • 55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

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