Internet in numbers
- Monday, 30 January 2012 09:33
- Written by Pawel Frankowski
- 0 Comments
Royal Pingdom website in one place has gathered statistics on the Internet in 2011. How many accounts, e-mail? How many web sites? How much was paid for the most expensive domain name?
If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place. Very clearly you will see an increase, if we compare statistics of two years.
| Info | 2011 | 2010 |
| The number of email accounts worldwide | 3.146 billion | 2.9 billion |
| Percentage of worldwide email traffic that was spam | 71% | 89.1% |
Websites
| 2011 | 2010 | |
| Number of websites | 555 million | 255 million |
| Added websites | 300 million | 21.4 million |
Internet users
| 2011 | 2010 | |
| Internet users worldwide |
2.1 billion |
1.97 billion |
| Internet users in Asia |
922.2 million |
825.1 million |
| Internet users in Europe | 476.2 million | 475.1 million |
| Internet users in North America |
271.1 million |
266.2 million |
| Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean |
215.9 million |
204.7 million |
| Internet users in Africa |
118.6 million |
110.9 million |
| Internet users in the Middle East |
68.6 million |
63.2 million |
| Internet users in Oceania / Australia |
21.3 million |
21.3 million |
| Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide |
591 million |
Domain names
| 2011 | 2010 | |
| Number of .com domain names at the end of year |
95.5 million |
88.8 million |
| Number of .net domain names at the end of year | 13.8 million |
13.2 million |
| Number of .org domains names |
9.3 million |
8.6 million |
| Number of country code top-level domains (.CN, .UK, .DE, etc.) |
86.9 million |
79.2 million
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| $2.6 million – The price for social.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2011. | 7% – The increase in domain names since the year before. |
Pawel Frankowski
Pawel Frankowski is an experienced books writer, blogger and Joomla! teacher. For over 7years, Paul has been developing numerous web sites, from corporate web sites to small personal sites – many of them using Joomla!
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