Some Stats Of The Internet In 2010

[bludex]

Some basic stats of our industry just reported:

January 13, 2011 12:30 PM
Internet in 2010: 107T E-Mails, 255M Websites

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.

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.

- Web server market share: Apache - 59.4%; Microsoft - 22.2%; nginx - 6.6%; Google - 5.9%; Lighttpd - .5%; Other - 5.4%

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.

Social media

- 152 million - The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).

- 25 billion - Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010

- 100 million - New accounts added on Twitter in 2010

- 175 million - People on Twitter as of September 2010

- 7.7 million - People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter's most followed user).

- 600 million - People on Facebook at the end of 2010.

- 250 million - New people on Facebook in 2010.

- 30 billion - Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.

- 70% - Share of Facebook's user base located outside the United States.

- 20 million - The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

- Web browser market share: Internet Explorer - 46.9%; Firefox - 30.8%; Chrome - 14.9%; Safari - 4.8%; Opera - 2.1%

[...]

 

[lothos]

nice info, thanks for sharing.

 

[jmcc]

Interesting stats.

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.
sers in Latin America / Caribbean.

Those figures are wrong. The figures at the end of 2010 were:
.com: 91500564 (91.5M)
.net: 13560222 (13.56M)
.org: 8764928 (8.76M)

The must be quoting the dodgy figures from webhosting.info which are over 2.5 million domains in error on .com alone.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Archangel]

I was about to say that I was skeptical of these stats but the you pretty much proved me right.

Interesting stats.

Those figures are wrong. The figures at the end of 2010 were:
.com: 91500564 (91.5M)
.net: 13560222 (13.56M)
.org: 8764928 (8.76M)

The must be quoting the dodgy figures from webhosting.info which are over 2.5 million domains in error on .com alone.

Regards...jmcc

 

[eyedomainous]

The bottom line...
Despite impressive numbers, including a 400% growth rate over the last decade, the internet still only has a 26.6 population penetration rate.

However, this new decade looks to be the decade of critical mass... as internet users are expected to go from 1.8 billion today to 5 billion in 2020.

[Source: Zdnet Internet World Stats, Network World, via: http://www.intac.net/the-internet-in-2020/]

 

[domainstaff]

I'm a bit slow as I just saw these numbers on Royal Pigdom and was about to quote the article.

Wow what #'s!! And you're right eyedomainous, critical mass here we come!

 

[flippinguru]

255 million - The number of websites as of December 2010.

thats a heck of a lot of websites!

 

[SDK1975]

Those email numbers are just staggering.

 

[DNProperty.com]

cctld's have a lot of room to grow.

I suspect .com will taper off when all the combinations are done. 1word, 2 word, 3 word, 2 word domains with hphen, idomains, edomains

 

[jmcc]

cctld's have a lot of room to grow.

I suspect .com will taper off when all the combinations are done. 1word, 2 word, 3 word, 2 word domains with hphen, idomains, edomains

Doesn't seem to be working out that way. There is a lot of com/cctld pair domains appearing now. Most ccTLD domain registrants will register their .com if it is available. These domains tend to be specific company/business names rather than generics.

Regards...jmcc

 

[labrocca]

Websites

- 255 million - The number of websites as of December 2010.

- 21.4 million - Added websites in 2010.

And Namepros is ranked around 3000. Not bad.