Everyone who is anyone knows how to speak the most popular language in the world. The lingo we are talking about here is called the ‘Internet’. If there is one sure way to exclude yourself from what is the business mainstream, it is to deny the dominant role that this global phenomenon plays in our society today.

If nothing else, these Internet statistics for 2010 will make you sit up and take notice. Read them and be amazed at how many of us connected via the World Wide Web last year.

Email, one of our preferred methods of written communication
*       107 trillion        – the number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010
*       294 billion        – the average number of email messages per day
*       1.88 billion        – the number of email users worldwide
*       480 million       – the number of 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%                   – the share of email accounts that are corporate

Websites, a popular medium for individuals, businesses and organisations alike
*       255 million      – the number of websites as at December 2010
*       21.4 million     – websites added in 2010

Web servers hard at work, delivering content via the Internet
*       39.1%              – the growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010
*       15.3%              – the growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010
*       4.1%                – the growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010
*       5.8%                – the growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010
*       55.7%              – the growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010

Domain names have come a long way since the launch of .COM in 1985
*       88.8 million    – the number of .COM domain names at the end of 2010
*       13.2 million    – the number of .NET domain names at the end of 2010
*       8.6 million      – the number of .ORG domain names at the end of 2010
*       79.2 million    – the number of country code top-level domains like .CN, .UK,  and .DE
*       202 million    – the number of domain names across all top-level domains (Oct 2010)
*       7%                  – the increase in domain names since the year before

Internet users make for a formidable family
*       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, connecting users around the world
*       152 million     – the number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
*       25 billion        – the number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010
*       100 million    – the number of new accounts added on Twitter in 2010
*       175 million     – the number of people on Twitter as at September 2010
*       7.7 million      – the number of people following Twitter’s most followed user, Lady Gaga
*       600 million    – the number of people on Facebook at the end of 2010
*       250 million    – the number of new people on Facebook in 2010
*       30 billion        – the number of pieces of content like links, notes & photos, shared on Facebook per month
*       70%                – the share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States
*       20 million      – the number of Facebook apps installed each day

Web browsers accessing videos and images
Videos
*       2 billion           – the number of videos watched per day on YouTube
*       35                    – the number of hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
*       186                  – the number of online videos that the average Internet user watches in a month (USA)
*       84%                – the share of Internet users that view videos online (USA)
*       14%                – the share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA)
*       2+ billion       – the number of videos watched per month on Facebook
*       20 million     – the number of videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images
*       5 billion          – the number of photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010)
*       3000+           – the number of photos uploaded per minute to Flickr
*       130 million    – at the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.
*       3+ billion       – the number of photos uploaded per month to Facebook.
*       36 billion       – at the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year

The popularity of the Internet as a communication tool – both socially and in business – is supported by these staggering statistics. The message is simple … hop on the bus or be left behind.

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