Internet in numbers: global statistics for 2012

    The company Pingdom, which specializes in maintaining the health and productivity of sites, and whose services are used by companies from different countries, has published statistics on the Internet for 2012.

    How many Internet domains, sites, blogs? What is the amount of spam? You will get answers to these and many other questions.


    Email

    2.2 billion is the number of email users worldwide.
    144 billion - daily e-mail traffic.
    61% - messages that users consider unimportant.
    4.3 billion - the number of email clients worldwide.
    35.6% - using the most popular email client - Mail for iOS.
    425 million is the number of active users of Gmail, the world's largest email service provider.
    68.8% - spam from all e-mail traffic.
    50.76% - spam about drugs - the most popular topic of spam messages.
    0.22% - messages containing phishing.

    Sites and hosting

    634 million - the number of sites (as of December 2012)
    51 million - the number of new sites that appeared in the past year.
    43% - of the million most popular sites hosted in the United States.
    48% of the 100 most popular blogs use WordPress.
    75% of the 10,000 most popular sites are supported by Open Source (open source) programs.
    87.8 million is the number of blogs on Tumblr.
    17.8 billion is the number of page views of Tumblr.
    59.4 million - the number of Wordpress sites worldwide.
    3.5 billion is the number of WordPress sites that are crawled every month.
    37 billion - the number of page views on Reddit.com in 2012.
    35% - the average volume of sites in 2012 grew so much.
    4% - the average speed of loading sites in 2012 slowed down so much.

    191 million - the number of visitors to Google Sites.

    Web servers

    -6.7% - decrease in the number of sites on Apache in 2012
    32.4% - increase in the number of sites on IIS in 2012
    36.4% - increase in the number of sites on NGINX in 2012
    15.9% - increase in the number of sites on Google in 2012 g.
    63% - market share of software for Apache servers in 2012;
    20% - market share of software for IIS servers in 2012;
    14% - market share of software for NGINX servers in 2012;
    4% - market share of software for Google servers in 2012 d.

    Domain names

    246 million - domain names registered in all zones.
    104.9 million - names registered in the national domain zones.
    329 - the number of top-level domains.
    100 million domains were registered in the .COM zone by the end of 2012.
    14.1 million domains were registered in the .NET zone by the end of 2012;
    9.7 million domains were registered in the .ORG zone by the end of 2012;
    6.7 million domains were registered in the .INFO zone by the end of 2012
    2.2 million - domains registered in .BIZ zone by the end of 2012
    32.44% - market share of GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar.
    $ 2.45 million - the cost of the sale. Investing.com - the size of the largest domain transaction in 2012.

    Internet users

    2.4 billion - Internet users worldwide.
    1.1 billion - Internet users in Asia.
    519 million are Internet users in Europe.
    274 million are Internet users in North America.
    255 million are Internet users in Latin America and the Caribbean.
    167 million Internet users in Africa.
    90 million are Internet users in the Middle East.
    24.3 million - Internet users in Australia and Oceania.
    565 million - Internet users in China - more than in any other country in the world.
    42.1% - the population of China has access to the Internet
    78.6% - the population of North America has access to the Internet
    67.6% - the population of Australia and Oceania has access to the Internet
    63.2% - the population of Europe has access to the Internet
    42.9% - the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has access Internet
    42% - the Middle East's population has access to the Internet
    27.5% - Asia's population has access to the Internet
    15.6% - of the population of Africa has access to the Internet

    Social networks

    85.962 - Users from Brazil write posts per month, where Facebook is most popular.
    1 billion - the number of active Facebook users, i.e. of those who visited their page at least once in the last month (as of October 2012)
    47% - Facebook users - women
    40.5 years old - the average age of a Facebook user.
    2.7 billion likes on Facebook every day.
    24.3% of the 10,000 most popular sites use Facebook.
    200 million - the number of active Twitter users (as of December 2012)
    819,000+ - the number of retweets of Barack Obama's “Four more years” message - the leader in the number of retweets.
    327,452 - the number of tweets per minute after the announcement of Obama's re-election as US president
    ; 729,571 - the number of messages per minute on Sina Weibo's Chinese microblog on New Year's Eve 2012-2013.
    9.66 million is the number of tweets during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.
    175 million - the average number of tweets per day during 2012;
    37.3 years - the average age of Twitter users.
    307 - the number of tweets of the average Twitter user.
    51 is the average number of follow-up messages per Twitter user.
    163 billion - the total number of tweets since the launch of Twitter (as of July 2012)
    123 - the number of heads of state with a Twitter account.
    187 million is the number of LinkedIn users (in September).
    44.2 years is the average age of LinkedIn users.
    135 million is the number of active Google+ users.
    5 billion - so many times a day, Google+ users click the +1 button.
    20.8% - of the 100 largest brands in the world use the HootSuite system to manage their presence on social networks.

    Browsers

    36.4% - the market share of Chrome in December 2012.
    30.8% - the market share of Internet Explorer.
    21.9% is the market share of Firefox.
    7.9% is Safari's market share.
    1.3% is Opera's market share.
    1.7% is the market share of all other browsers.

    Search

    1.2 trillion - the total number of Google searches in 2012.
    67% - Google market share in the field of search engines in the USA (December).
    1 - The most popular question of the year on Ask.com: “Will Rob and Kristen reunite?”



    Mobile technology

    1.1 billion - the number of subscribers to services for smartphones.
    6.7 billion - the number of subscriptions to mobile services.
    5 billion is the number of mobile phone users.
    5.3 billion - the number of mobile phones.
    1.3 billion - the number of smartphones worldwide (as of the end of 2012)
    465 million - the number of Android smartphones sold in 2012 - a market share of 66%.
    31% - Internet users in the US used e-books.
    13% - of all Internet traffic goes through mobile communications.
    5 billion - the number of subscriptions for wireless Internet access via mobile devices.
    1.3 hexabytes - the total volume of mobile traffic per month in 2012.
    59% - the percentage of video from all mobile traffic.
    500 megabytes - the amount of traffic per month consumed by an average smartphone.
    504 kbps - the average speed of communication over the mobile Internet worldwide (all mobile phones).

    1,820 kbps - the average speed of communication via mobile Internet worldwide (smartphones only).

    Video

    14 million - the number of Vimeo users.
    200 petabytes - the volume of videos played on Vimeo during 2012.
    150,648,303 - the number of unique visitors who viewed videos on Google Sites, (September).
    1 billion - PSY's Gangnam Style video was the first video to be watched by more than a billion users in just 5 months.
    2.7 billion is the number of views of videos uploaded to YouTube marked “Obama” or “Romney” during the US presidential election.
    2.5 million is the number of hours of a news video uploaded to YouTube.
    8 million is the number of users who simultaneously watched the broadcast of Felix Baumgartner’s “jump from the stratosphere” on YouTube.
    4 billion is the number of hours of videos viewed on YouTube per month.
    60 million is the number of Ustream visitors per month.
    16.8 million - the number of users who viewed saw on Ustream more than 24 hours.
    181.7 million - the number of unique visitors who watched online video in the USA (December)

    Images

    7 petabytes - the amount of photo content uploaded to Facebook every month.
    300 million - new photos uploaded every day on Facebook.
    5 billion - photos uploaded to Instagram since its launch (by September 2012)
    58 - photos are uploaded to Instagram every second.
    1 - Apple iPhone 4S is the most popular camera on Flickr.

    More detailed data with links to the sources of all the information provided can be found on the Pingdom website..

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