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The Internet in Numbers: 2008

Email
1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.
53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

Websites
186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.

Web servers
24.4% – The growth of Apache websites in 2008.
13.7% – The growth of IIS websites in 2008.
22.2% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2008.
336.8% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2008.
100.3% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2008.

Domain names
77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
11.8 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2008.
7.2 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2008.
174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.

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

Blogs
133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).
900,000 – The number of new blog posts in a day.
329 million – The number of blog posts in 2008.

Images
10 billion – Photos hosted by Facebook (October 2008).
3 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (November 2008).
6.2 billion – Photos hosted by Photobucket (October 2008).

Videos
12.7 billion – The number of online videos watched by American Internet users in a month (November 2008).
87 – The number of online videos viewed per month per Internet user in USA.
34% – The increase in viewing of online video in USA compared to 2007.
3.1 – The number of minutes of an average online video.

Malicious software
1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.

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