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TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS ONLINE
1993
4.6 million online in US
1995
9.6 million online in US
19% are shopping online
1996
10 million online in US (4% of US population)
8% of online users buying products via Internet
1997
11 million online in US
17% claim to be online buyers spending at least $50 a year
27% are shopping online
1998
19.1 million online in US
20 million users (netizens) worldwide say Internet is indispensable
over 1.2 million users in Russia
1999
158 million online worldwide
58 million - 92 million online in US (depending on research source)
average surfer got over 1,700 email messages
37 million use Web for e-commerce
2000
122.7 million online in US (source Yahoo! Internet Life)
180 million online in the US as of December 2000
2.1 billion online worldwide (out of 6 billion)
Internet sales up 1,200% since 1997
500,000 new users to Internet every month
7 million US homes now getting 10 MB of two-way Internet access
2003
500 million users projected to be online
INTERNET STATS (as of Septermber 2000)
76 million in US surf Internet and use email daily
333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million)
46% of American workers use the Net for personal reasons
48% of engaged couples used Web to gather info on and plan weddings
55% of online gamblers are women
650 thousand new jobs created based on Internet contact
5,400 jobs cut between January and June 2000 due to dot-com failures
44% of online surfers have participated in an online auction this year
32% used the Net to keep up with and gather voting and election
information
18% relay on Internet completely or very much for daily news
68% say that e-mail and instant messaging has reduced long distance
phone bill
71% of men have shop online
58% of women shop online
Most likely shoppers are males with at least Bachelors degree and
earning $75,000
Companies are launching Web sites at record pace
Over half of all businesses with Web sites maintain their own site
advertising online has gone from $400 million in 1997 to $4.8 billion
in 2000
32 million households to bank online by 2003
OTHER INTERESTING STATS
Total US business at end of 1996 - 6.22 million
50% of all businss owners are 35-54 years old
50% of these are 35-44 years old
70% are married
54% are home-based sole proprietorships
66% are first time businesses
DEMOGRAPHICS OF INTERNET USERS
2000
84% Caucasian (1999 - 76% Caucasian)
12 % African-American
3% Asian
1% mixed
38% have Bachelors degree or higher (down from 47% in 1996)
27% are relatively new to the Web
60% are married or partnered (was 71% in 1997)
Over 50% go online every day
TOP ONLINE ACTIVITIES
92% browse the Web
88% send/receive email
87% collect information about hobby or personal interest
81% collect product or service information
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74% read the news
65% get business or work information
63% collect travel information
60% download images or photos
58% look up entertainment events
56% check the weather
xx% doing online investing
WHOS BUYING WHAT (January 1999)
MEN
men mostly buying computers, CDs and videos
12.6 million male shoppers research automobiles and buy auto parts
9.4 million men buy computers online
WOMEN
number of women buyers up 80%
9.6 million women bought books, CDs and videos
6.9 million women buy clothing online
6.4 million women buy computers online
SMALL BUSINESS USE OF INTERNET
72% use for email and customer contact (up from 62% in 1999)
48% operate a Web site
28% sell goods or services online
WEB SITE STATS
Over 1 million active Web sites (over 80 million web pages)
typical Web page 5k
typical Web image 12k
median site has 300 pages
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50 sites have over 30,000 pages
top 1,000 sites account for 50% of all web traffic
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Most Questions Asked Online
On May 17, 1997, Sir Paul McCartney received over 3 million questions from fans in 30 minutes, during a web event to promote his album Flaming Pie.
Largest Domain Ownership
According to NetNames Ltd., as of April 2000, the USA has over 11 million domains of the 15,719,462 that exist worldwide.
Smallest Web Server
The web page of the Wearables Laboratory at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, is supported by Jumptec's DIMM-PC, a server only slightly higher and wider than a box of matches and only one-third of the thickness. By January 1999 the site was averaging 40 hits a minute.
Hotmail
MSN Hotmail is the world's largest free web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 110 million active subscribers as of January 2003. The Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998 - more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years - and on most days, the number of new people signing up for an account is greater than the number of babies born into the world!
An average of 40 million Hotmail emails are sent each day, and MSN have estimated that their service saves 500 trees - that's about 72,720 kg - of paper per day.
Google
Google, with around 4.2 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world's search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with a staff of four people.
Most Expensive Internet Domain Name
The Internet domain name business.com was sold by Texan entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky on Dec 1 1999 for £4.6 million ($7.5 million).
Marc, a 38-year-old Houston media entrepreneur, bought the domain name from a London Internet service provider for $150,000 in 1996, the same year his children's nanny won $21 million in the Texas lottery. Ostrofsky is not only a savvy businessman but also a very thoughtful husband. When he sold the domain name www.eflowers.com for $25,000 - and 50 cents on every transaction at that site - he made eFlowers promise to send his wife a dozen roses each month for the rest of her life!
FIVE MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES
Business.com - $7.5 million
AsSeenOnTv.com - $5.1 million
Altavista.com - $3.3 million
Wine.com - $2.9 million
Autos.com - $2.2 million
Largest Single E-commerce Transaction
If you're feeling flush you might end up buying a few CD's over the net. Or possibly a holiday - a couple of clicks can get you anywhere in the world. Business tycoon Mark Cuban, however, made these regular web transactions look like small change when he spent $40 million on his own luxury Gulfstream V jet. The jet was the second sold by the Gulfstream company over their website. Cuban's purchase is the largest ever single internet transaction.
Largest Internet Joke Vote
LaughLab, an Internet experiment into humor, was conducted by psychologist Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Running from September 2001 to October 2002, the project collected over 40,000 jokes submitted from the worldwide public, and around 2 million votes were cast on what was the funniest.
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