Internet in numbers: world statistics for 2012
The company Pingdom, which specializes in maintaining the performance and productivity of sites, and whose services are used by companies from different countries, published statistics on the Internet for 2012.
How many domains, sites, blogs are online? What is the amount of spam? You will get answers to these and many other questions.
Email
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2.2 billion - the number of email users worldwide.
144 billion - daily email traffic.
61% - messages that users consider unimportant.
4.3 billion - the number of mail 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 medications - the most popular topic of spam messages.
0.22% - messages containing phishing.
Sites and hosting
634 million - the number of sites (in December 2012)
51 million - the number of new sites that have appeared in the past year.
43% of the million most popular sites are located in the United States.
48% of the top 100 blogs use WordPress.
75% of the 10,000 most popular sites are supported by Open Source programs (open source).
87.8 million is the number of blogs in Tumblr.
17.8 billion is the number of Tumblr page views.
59.4 million is the number of Wordpress sites worldwide.
3.5 billion is the number of WordPress sites that are viewed every month.
37 billion - the number of page views on Reddit.com in 2012
35% - so increased the average volume of sites for 2012.
4% - slowed down the average download speed of sites in 2012.
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% - an increase in the number of sites on IIS in 2012
36.4% - increase in the number of sites on NGINX in 2012
15.9% - an increase in the number of sites on Google in 2012
63% - market share of software for Apache servers in 2012
20% - the market share of software for IIS servers in 2012
14% is the market share of software for NGINX servers in 2012
4% - the market share of software for Google servers in 2012
Domain names
246 million domain names registered in all zones.
104.9 million registered in national domain zones.
329 - the number of top-level domains.
100 million domains registered in the .COM zone by the end of 2012
14.1 million domains registered in the .NET zone by the end of 2012
9.7 million domains registered in the .ORG zone by the end of 2012
6.7 million - domains registered in the .INFO zone by the end of 2012
2.2 million - domains registered in the .BIZ zone by the end of 2012
32.44% is the market share of GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar.
$ 2.45 million - the cost of selling 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 Internet users in Europe.
274 million Internet users in North America.
255 million Internet users in Latin America and the Caribbean.
167 million Internet users in Africa.
90 million Internet users in the Middle East.
24.3 million Internet users in Australia and Oceania.
565 million Internet users in China are more than any other country in the world.
42.1% of the population of China has access to the Internet
78.6% of the population of North America has access to the Internet
67.6% of the population of Australia and Oceania has access to the Internet
63.2% of the population of Europe has access to the Internet
42.9% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean have access to the Internet
42% of the population of the Middle East has access to the Internet
27.5% of the population of Asia has access to the Internet
15.6% of the population of Africa has access to the Internet
Social networks
85.962 - posts per month are written by users from Brazil, where Facebook is the most popular.
1 billion is the number of active Facebook users, i.e. those who have visited their page at least once in the last month (as of October 2012)
47% - Facebook users - women
40.5 years is the average age of a Facebook user.
2.7 billion likes put 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 the message of Barack Obama "Four more years" - the leader in the number of retweets.
327,452 - the number of tweets per minute after the announcement of Obama's re-election to the US presidency
729,571 - the number of messages per minute on the Chinese microblogging Sina Weibo on New Year's Eve 2012-2013.
9.66 million - the number of tweets during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.
175 million - the average number of tweets per day over 2012
37.3 years old - the average age of Twitter users.
307 is the number of tweets from the average Twitter user.
51 is the average number of followers for one Twitter user.
163 billion - the total number of tweets since the launch of Twitter (as of July 2012)
123 is the number of heads of state with a Twitter account.
187 million - the number of users of LinkedIn (in September).
44.2 years is the average age of LinkedIn users.
135 million is the number of active Google+ users.
5 billion — Google+ users click the “+1” button so many times a day.
20.8% of the top 100 brands in the world use the HootSuite system to manage their presence in social networks.
Browsers
36.4% - Chrome's market share for December 2012
30.8% - the market share of Internet Explorer.
21.9% - Firefox market share.
7.9% - Safari market share.
1.3% - Opera's market share.
1.7% - the market share of all other browsers.
Search
1.2 trillion - the total number of search queries on Google in 2012
67% - Google’s market share in search engines in the US (December).
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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 is 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% of Internet users in the United States used e-books.
13% - of all Internet traffic goes through mobile communication.
5 billion - the number of subscriptions to wireless Internet access via mobile devices.
1.3 hexabytes - total volume of mobile traffic per month in 2012
59% is the percentage of video from all mobile traffic.
500 megabytes - the amount of traffic per month consumed by the average smartphone.
504 kbps - the average speed of communication through the mobile Internet throughout the world (all mobile phones).
1,820 kbps - the average speed of communication through the mobile Internet throughout the world (only smartphones).
Video
14 million is the number of Vimeo users.
200 petabytes - the amount of video lost on Vimeo throughout 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 that was watched by over a billion users in just 5 months.
2.7 billion - the number of views of videos uploaded to YouTube labeled "Obama" or "Romney" during the presidential elections.
2.5 million - the number of hours of news videos uploaded to YouTube.
8 million - the number of users who simultaneously watched Felix Baumgartner’s “jump from the stratosphere” on YouTube.
4 billion - the number of hours of video viewed on YouTube per month.
60 million - the number of Ustream visitors per month.
16.8 million - the number of users who watched Ustream for more than 24 hours.
181.7 million - the number of unique visitors who watched online video in the US (December)
Images
7 petabyte - the amount of photo content uploaded to Facebook every month.
300 million new photos are uploaded to Facebook every day.
5 billion photos uploaded to Instagram since its launch (by September 2012)
58 - photos are uploaded every second to Instagram.
1 - Apple iPhone 4S - the most popular camera on Flickr.
More detailed data with links to sources of all the information provided can be found on the Pingdom website .
How many domains, sites, blogs are online? What is the amount of spam? You will get answers to these and many other questions.
')
2.2 billion - the number of email users worldwide.
144 billion - daily email traffic.
61% - messages that users consider unimportant.
4.3 billion - the number of mail 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 medications - the most popular topic of spam messages.
0.22% - messages containing phishing.
Sites and hosting
634 million - the number of sites (in December 2012)
51 million - the number of new sites that have appeared in the past year.
43% of the million most popular sites are located in the United States.
48% of the top 100 blogs use WordPress.
75% of the 10,000 most popular sites are supported by Open Source programs (open source).
87.8 million is the number of blogs in Tumblr.
17.8 billion is the number of Tumblr page views.
59.4 million is the number of Wordpress sites worldwide.
3.5 billion is the number of WordPress sites that are viewed every month.
37 billion - the number of page views on Reddit.com in 2012
35% - so increased the average volume of sites for 2012.
4% - slowed down the average download speed of sites in 2012.
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% - an increase in the number of sites on IIS in 2012
36.4% - increase in the number of sites on NGINX in 2012
15.9% - an increase in the number of sites on Google in 2012
63% - market share of software for Apache servers in 2012
20% - the market share of software for IIS servers in 2012
14% is the market share of software for NGINX servers in 2012
4% - the market share of software for Google servers in 2012
Domain names
246 million domain names registered in all zones.
104.9 million registered in national domain zones.
329 - the number of top-level domains.
100 million domains registered in the .COM zone by the end of 2012
14.1 million domains registered in the .NET zone by the end of 2012
9.7 million domains registered in the .ORG zone by the end of 2012
6.7 million - domains registered in the .INFO zone by the end of 2012
2.2 million - domains registered in the .BIZ zone by the end of 2012
32.44% is the market share of GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar.
$ 2.45 million - the cost of selling 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 Internet users in Europe.
274 million Internet users in North America.
255 million Internet users in Latin America and the Caribbean.
167 million Internet users in Africa.
90 million Internet users in the Middle East.
24.3 million Internet users in Australia and Oceania.
565 million Internet users in China are more than any other country in the world.
42.1% of the population of China has access to the Internet
78.6% of the population of North America has access to the Internet
67.6% of the population of Australia and Oceania has access to the Internet
63.2% of the population of Europe has access to the Internet
42.9% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean have access to the Internet
42% of the population of the Middle East has access to the Internet
27.5% of the population of Asia has access to the Internet
15.6% of the population of Africa has access to the Internet
Social networks
85.962 - posts per month are written by users from Brazil, where Facebook is the most popular.
1 billion is the number of active Facebook users, i.e. those who have visited their page at least once in the last month (as of October 2012)
47% - Facebook users - women
40.5 years is the average age of a Facebook user.
2.7 billion likes put 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 the message of Barack Obama "Four more years" - the leader in the number of retweets.
327,452 - the number of tweets per minute after the announcement of Obama's re-election to the US presidency
729,571 - the number of messages per minute on the Chinese microblogging Sina Weibo on New Year's Eve 2012-2013.
9.66 million - the number of tweets during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.
175 million - the average number of tweets per day over 2012
37.3 years old - the average age of Twitter users.
307 is the number of tweets from the average Twitter user.
51 is the average number of followers for one Twitter user.
163 billion - the total number of tweets since the launch of Twitter (as of July 2012)
123 is the number of heads of state with a Twitter account.
187 million - the number of users of LinkedIn (in September).
44.2 years is the average age of LinkedIn users.
135 million is the number of active Google+ users.
5 billion — Google+ users click the “+1” button so many times a day.
20.8% of the top 100 brands in the world use the HootSuite system to manage their presence in social networks.
Browsers
36.4% - Chrome's market share for December 2012
30.8% - the market share of Internet Explorer.
21.9% - Firefox market share.
7.9% - Safari market share.
1.3% - Opera's market share.
1.7% - the market share of all other browsers.
Search
1.2 trillion - the total number of search queries on Google in 2012
67% - Google’s market share in search engines in the US (December).
1 is 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 is 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% of Internet users in the United States used e-books.
13% - of all Internet traffic goes through mobile communication.
5 billion - the number of subscriptions to wireless Internet access via mobile devices.
1.3 hexabytes - total volume of mobile traffic per month in 2012
59% is the percentage of video from all mobile traffic.
500 megabytes - the amount of traffic per month consumed by the average smartphone.
504 kbps - the average speed of communication through the mobile Internet throughout the world (all mobile phones).
1,820 kbps - the average speed of communication through the mobile Internet throughout the world (only smartphones).
Video
14 million is the number of Vimeo users.
200 petabytes - the amount of video lost on Vimeo throughout 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 that was watched by over a billion users in just 5 months.
2.7 billion - the number of views of videos uploaded to YouTube labeled "Obama" or "Romney" during the presidential elections.
2.5 million - the number of hours of news videos uploaded to YouTube.
8 million - the number of users who simultaneously watched Felix Baumgartner’s “jump from the stratosphere” on YouTube.
4 billion - the number of hours of video viewed on YouTube per month.
60 million - the number of Ustream visitors per month.
16.8 million - the number of users who watched Ustream for more than 24 hours.
181.7 million - the number of unique visitors who watched online video in the US (December)
Images
7 petabyte - the amount of photo content uploaded to Facebook every month.
300 million new photos are uploaded to Facebook every day.
5 billion photos uploaded to Instagram since its launch (by September 2012)
58 - photos are uploaded every second to Instagram.
1 - Apple iPhone 4S - the most popular camera on Flickr.
More detailed data with links to sources of all the information provided can be found on the Pingdom website .
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