Internet 2008 in numbers

It is always interesting to look back and see the fruits of their “activities”. Royal Pingdom collected, summarized and calculated how many sites were created by Internet workers. How many letters have been sent, and photos and videos uploaded. Figures, graphics and details under the cut.

Email

• 1.3 billion - The number of users e-mail.
• 210 billion. - The number of sent messages per day.
• 70% - The proportion of spam in sent emails.
• 53.8 trillion - The amount of spam sent.

Sites

• 186,727,854 - The number of sites by December 2008.
• 31.5 million - The number of sites created in 2008.

Web servers

• 24.4% - Apache growth in 2008.
• 13.7% - IIS growth in 2008.
• 22.2% - Growth of Google GFE in 2008.
• 336.8% - Growth of Nginx in 2008.
• 100.3% - Lighttpd Growth in 2008.

Domains

• 77.5 million. - The number of domain names in the .COM zone at the end of 2008.
• 11.8 million. - The number of domain names in the .NET zone at the end of 2008.
• 7.2 million - The number of domain names in the .ORG zone.
• 174 million - The number of all top-level domains.
• 19% - Increase in the number of domain names in 2008.

Internet users

• 1,463,632,361 - Number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
• 578,538,257 - The number of Internet users in Asia.
• 384,633,765 - The number of Internet users in Europe.
• 248,241,969 - The number of Internet users in North America.
• 139,009,209 - Number of Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
• 51,065,630 - Number of Internet users in Africa.
• 41,939,200 - The number of Internet users in the Middle East.
• 20,204,331 - Number of Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Blogs

• 133 million - The number of blogs on the Internet.
• 900,000 - The number of new posts per day.
• 329 million - The number of blog posts.

Photo

• 10 billion - Number of photos posted on Facebook (October 2008)
• 3 billion - Number of photos posted on Flickr (November 2008).
• 6.2 billion. - The number of photos posted on Photobucket (November 2008).

Video

• 12.7 billion - The number of online video views by American users per month.
• 87 - The number of videos viewed per month by one American user.
• 34% - Increase in online video views compared to 2007.
• 3.1 min - The average duration of online video.

Browsers

Viruses

• 1 million - The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
• 468% - Increase in malicious code in comparison with 2007.