What has changed on the Internet in 2010? How many websites were created? How many people used the Internet? Let's try to figure it out. To build these statistics, we used a large number of sources, you can find them at the end of the article.
Letters
107 trillion - letters sent in 2010
294 billion - the average number of messages per day
1.88 billion - the number of email users worldwide
480 million new users this year
89.1% - spam
262 billion - the number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% of spam)
2.9 billion email accounts
25% - the share of corporate accounts
Sites
255 million - the number of web sites in December 2010
21.4 million - new sites for 2010
Growth in the number of web servers in 2010
39.1% - Apache
15.3% - IIS
4.1% - Nginx
5.8% - Google GWS
55.7% - Lighttpd
Domains
88.8 million - the number of domain names at the end of 2010 in the .COM zone
13.2 million - the number of domain names at the end of 2010 in the .NET zone
8.6 million - the number of domain names at the end of 2010 in the .ORG zone
79.2 million - the number of top-level domains of countries (for example .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.)
202 million - the number of domain names in all top-level domains (October 2010)
7% - an increase in the number of domain names compared to 2009.
Internet users
1.97 billion users worldwide (June 2010)
14% - an increase compared to 2009
825.1 million - Asia
475.1 million - Europe
266.2 million - North America
204.7 million - Latin America and the Caribbean
110.9 million - Africa
63.2 million - in the Middle East
21.3 million - Oceania / Australia
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Social media
152 million - the number of blogs on the Internet (according to statistics BlogPulse)
25 billion - the number of tweets for 2010
100 million new Twitter users
175 million people on Twitter (as of September 2010)
7.7 million - people subscribed to ladygaga (Lady Gaga)
600 million Facebook users at the end of 2010
250 million new Facebook users in 2010
30 billion - new entries in Facebook (links, notes, photos, etc.) every month
70% of Facebook users are outside the US
20 million installed applications by Facebook users every day
Browsers
Video
2 billion - viewed videos on YouTube, per day
35 - hours of video uploaded every minute to YouTube
186 - the average number of videos viewed per month by a YouTube user (USA)
84% - people watching online video (USA)
14% - people adding a new video (US)
2+ billion - viewed videos on Facebook, per month
20 million - uploaded clips on Facebook, per month
A photo
5 billion - photo on Flickr (September 2010)
3000+ - photos uploaded to Flickr, per minute
130 million - uploaded photos on Flickr, per month
3+ billion - uploaded photos on Facebook, per month
36 billion - uploaded photos on Facebook, per year, at current rates