Pingdom, a company that covers the uptime monitoring needs of 90 percent of the companies in the world, has published their annual internet numbers for 2012. Issues covered are how many emails, how many websites, how many blogs, how much spam…Some of the highlights of Pingdom Internet 2012 In Numbers are:
- 246 million – Number of domain name registrations across all top level domains
- 104.9 million – Number of country code top level domain name registrations
- 329 – Number of top level domains
- 100 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2012
- 14.1 million – Number of .net domain names at the end of 2012
- 9.7 million – Number of .org domain names at the end of 2012
- 32.44% – Market share for GoDaddy.com, the biggest domain name registrar in the world
- $2.45 million – The price for Investing.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2012.2.2 billion
- 144 billion – Total email traffic per day worldwide
- 68.8% – Percentage of all email traffic that was spam
- 50.76% – Percentage of all spam that was about pharmaceuticals, the top category of all spam
- 0.22% – Share of worldwide emails that comprised some form of phishing attack
- 634 million – Number of websites (December)
- 51 million – Number of websites added during the year
- 43% – Share of the top 1 million websites that are hosted in the U.S.
- 2.4 billion – Number of Internet users worldwide
- 1.1 billion – Number of Internet users in Asia
- 85,962 – Number of monthly posts per Facebook Page in Brazil, the most active country on Facebook
- 1 billion – Number of monthly active users on Facebook, passed in October
- 47% – Percentage of Facebook users that are female
- 40.5 years – Average age of a Facebook user
- 2.7 billion – Number of likes on Facebook every day
- 24.3% – Share of the top 10,000 websites that have Facebook integration
- 7 petabytes – How much photo content Facebook added every month
- 300 million – Number of new photos added every day to Facebook
- 200 million – Monthly active users on Twitter, passed in December
- 175 million – Average number of tweets sent every day throughout 2012
- 1.1 billion – Number of global smartphone subscribers
- 6.7 billion – Number of mobile subscriptions
- 5 billion – Number of mobile phone users
- 5.3 billion – Number of mobile handsets.
Looking into their crystal ball for 2013, Pingdom predicts “we will be accessing the Internet more with mobile devices, social media will play an increasingly important role in our lives, and we’ll rely even more on the internet both privately as well as professionally.”To check out Pingdom’s complete Internet in 2012, go to royal.pingdom.com/2013/01/16/internet-2012-in-numbers/