DO YOU KNOW ?
35.6% of Internet users are Asian
With average of 389 million of Internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest Internet crowd among other world regions
In Africa, 3 out of 100 surf the Internet
In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet
In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf the Internet
In Middle East, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet
In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet
In Latin America, 16 out of 100 surf the Internet
In Australia, 53 out of 100 surf the Internet
Only 16.6% of world population surf the Internet
1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month
Amount of Internet surfers in Asia (389,392,28) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443)
19% of Internet users are from United States (210,080,067)
Around 18 countries still doesn't have Internet connection
Internet Explorer and Firefox are the most common browsers.
Windows XP is the most popular operating system. The Windows family counts for about 90%
According to Gartner research, GSM carriers will make up 89% of all global wireless networks by 2011.
Global access will approach a $1 trillion market by 2012.
At the end of 2008, approximately 19% of Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps.
Google search stats :
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1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google's index (source)
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2,000,000,000 (two billion) - very rough number of Google searches daily (source)
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$110,000,000 - approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button (source)
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68,000,000 - the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source: keyword tool)
Wikipedia stats:
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2,695,205 - the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
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684,000,000 - the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
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75,000 - the number of active contributors to Wikipedia
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10,000,000 - the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all languages
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260 - the number of languages articles have been written in on Wikipedia (source)
YouTube stats :
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70,000,000 - number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
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200,000 - number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)
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100,000,000 - number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat from 2006 is the most recent I could locate)
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112,486,327 - number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)
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2 minutes 46.17 seconds - average length of video
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412.3 years - length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)
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26.57 - average age of uploader
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13 hours - amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
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$1,000,000 - YouTube's estimated bandwidth costs per day (sources here, here and here)
