2010 Internet statistics: social media, email, websites, web servers, domain names, internet users, videos, images

1. TOP 2010 MUST HAVE INTERNET STATS & SOCIAL MEDIA STATS

2. social media 152 million 25 billion 100 million 175 million 7.7 million 600 million 250 million 30 billion 70% 20 million The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse). Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010. New accounts added on Twitter in 2010. People on Twitter as of September 2010. People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user). People on Facebook at the end of 2010. New people on Facebook in 2010. Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month. Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States. The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

3. email 107 trillion 294 billion 1.88 billion 480 million 89.1% 262 billion 2.9 billion 25% The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. Average number of email messages per day. The number of email users worldwide. New email users since the year before. The share of emails that were spam. The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam). The number of email accounts worldwide. Share of email accounts that are corporate.

4. web sites 255 million 21.4 million The number of websites as of December 2010. Added websites in 2010.

5. web servers 39.1% 15.3% 4.1% 5.8% 55.7% Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010. Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010. Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010. Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010. Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

6. domain names 88.8 million 13.2 million 8.6 million 79.2 million 202 million 7% .COM domain names at the end of 2010. .NET domain names at the end of 2010. .ORG domain names at the end of 2010. The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.). The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010). The increase in domain names since the year before.

7. internet users 1.97 billion 14% 825.1 million 475.1 million 266.2 million 204.7 million 110.9 million 63.2 million 21.3 million Internet users worldwide (June 2010). Increase in Internet users since the previous year. Internet users in Asia. Internet users in Europe. Internet users in North America. Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean. Internet users in Africa. Internet users in the Middle East. Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

8. videos 2 billion 35 186 84% 14% 2+ billion 20 million The number of videos watched per day on YouTube. Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA). Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA). Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA). The number of videos watched per month on Facebook. Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

9. images 5 billion 3000+ 130 million 3+ billion 36 billion Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010). Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr. At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr. Photos uploaded per month to Facebook. At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

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