3.146 billion – Number of email accounts worldwide.
27.6% – Microsoft Outlook was the most popular email client.
19% – Percentage of spam emails delivered to corporate email inboxes despite spam filters.
112 – Number of emails sent and received per day by the average corporate user.
71% – Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam (November 2011).
360 million – Total number of Hotmail users (largest email service in the world).
$44.25 – The estimated return on $1 invested in email marketing in 2011.
40 – Years since the first email was sent, in 1971.
0.39% – Percentage of email that was malicious (November 2011).
Websites
555 million – Number of websites (December 2011).
300 million – Added websites in 2011.
Web servers
239.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2011.
68.7% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2011.
34.4% – Growth in the number of NGINX websites in 2011.
80.9% – Growth in the number of Google websites in 2011.
Domain names
95.5 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2011.
13.8 million – Number of .net domain names at the end of 2011.
9.3 million – Number of .org domains names at the end of 2011.
7.6 million – Number of .info domain names at the end of 2011.
2.1 million – Number of .biz domain names at the end of 2011.
220 million – Number of registered domain names (Q3, 2011).
86.9 million – Number of country code top-level domains (.CN, .UK, .DE, etc.) (Q3, 2011).
324 – Number of top-level domains.
28% – Market share for BIND, the number one DNS server type.
$2.6 million – The price for social.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2011.
Internet users
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
922.2 million – Internet users in Asia.
476.2 million – Internet users in Europe.
271.1 million – Internet users in North America.
215.9 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
118.6 million – Internet users in Africa.
68.6 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
45% – Share of Internet users under the age of 25.
485 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any other country in the world.
36.3% – Internet penetration in China.
591 million – Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.
Social media
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
200 million – Number of users added to Facebook during 2011.
350 million – Number of Facebook users that log in to the service using their mobile phone.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
18.1 million – People following Lady Gaga. Twitter’s most popular user.
250 million – Number of tweets per day (October 2011).
1 – #egypt was the number one hashtag on Twitter.
8,868 – Number of tweets per second in August for the MTV Video Music Awards.
$50,000 – The amount raised for charity by the most retweeted tweet of 2011.
39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
1 billion – The number of messages sent with WhatsApp during one day (October 2011).
2.6 billion – Worldwide IM accounts.
2.4 billion – Social networking accounts worldwide.
Mobile
1.2 billion – The number of active mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
5.9 billion – The estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
85% – Percentage of handsets shipped globally in 2011 that included a web browser.
88% – Apple iPad’s share of global tablet web traffic in December
2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide.
922.2 million – Internet users in Asia.
476.2 million – Internet users in Europe.
271.1 million – Internet users in North America.
215.9 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
118.6 million – Internet users in Africa.
68.6 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
45% – Share of Internet users under the age of 25.
485 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any other country in the world.
36.3% – Internet penetration in China.
591 million – Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.
Social media
800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011.
200 million – Number of users added to Facebook during 2011.
350 million – Number of Facebook users that log in to the service using their mobile phone.
225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
100 million – Number of active Twitter users in 2011.
18.1 million – People following Lady Gaga. Twitter’s most popular user.
250 million – Number of tweets per day (October 2011).
1 – #egypt was the number one hashtag on Twitter.
8,868 – Number of tweets per second in August for the MTV Video Music Awards.
$50,000 – The amount raised for charity by the most retweeted tweet of 2011.
39 million – The number of Tumblr blogs by the end of 2011.
70 million – Total number of WordPress blogs by the end of 2011.
1 billion – The number of messages sent with WhatsApp during one day (October 2011).
2.6 billion – Worldwide IM accounts.
2.4 billion – Social networking accounts worldwide.
Mobile
1.2 billion – The number of active mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
5.9 billion – The estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
85% – Percentage of handsets shipped globally in 2011 that included a web browser.
88% – Apple iPad’s share of global tablet web traffic in December
Videos
1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
140 – The number of YouTube video playbacks per person on Earth.
48 hours – The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
1 – The most viewed video on YouTube during 2011 was Rebecka Black’s “Friday.”
82.5% – Percentage of the U.S. Internet audience that viewed video online.
76.4% – YouTube’s share of the U.S. video website market (December 2011).
4,189,214 – Number of new users on Vimeo.
201.4 billion – Number of videos viewed online per month (October 2011).
88.3 billion – Videos viewed per month on Google sites, incl. YouTube (October 2011).
43% – Share of all worldwide video views delivered by Google sites, incl. YouTube.
Images
14 million – Number of Instagram accounts created during 2011.
60 – The average number of photos uploaded per second to Instagram.
100 billion – Estimated number of photos on Facebook by mid-2011.
51 million – Total number of registered users on Flickr.
4.5 million – Number of photos uploaded to Flickr each day.
6 billion – Photos hosted on Flickr (August 2011).
1 – Apple iPhone 4 is the most popular camera on Flickr.
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