Have you ever tried to quantify the internet? Ever wondered how many websites are online, number of e-mails sent per day or the general impact and use of social media? This article will give you a good idea of what’s happening, with statistics up to 2010.

Emails

107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.

294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.

480 million – New email users since the year before.

89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.

262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).

2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.

25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate.

Websites

255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.

21.4 million – Added websites in 2010.

Web servers

39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.

15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.

4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.

5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.

55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

Domain names

88.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2010.

13.2 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2010.

8.6 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2010.

79.2 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).

202 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2010).

7% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).

14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.

825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.

475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.

266.2 million – Internet users in North America.

204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.

110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.

63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.

21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

152 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).

25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010

100 million – New accounts added on Twitter in 2010

175 million – People on Twitter as of September 2010

7.7 million – People following @ladygaga (Lady Gaga, Twitter’s most followed user).

600 million – People on Facebook at the end of 2010.

250 million – New people on Facebook in 2010.

30 billion – Pieces of content (links, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook per month.

70% – Share of Facebook’s user base located outside the United States.

20 million – The number of Facebook apps installed each day.

Web browsers

Videos

2 billion – The number of videos watched per day on YouTube.

35 – Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.

186 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).

84% – Share of Internet users that view videos online (USA).

14% – Share of Internet users that have uploaded videos online (USA).

2+ billion – The number of videos watched per month on Facebook.

20 million – Videos uploaded to Facebook per month.

Images

5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010).

3000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr.

130 million – At the above rate, the number of photos uploaded per month to Flickr.

3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.

36 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Source: Royal Pingdom