The State Of The Internet Video

Here's an excellent video that's a fun watch that depicts the current state of the Internet. Get ready for some staggering numbers.



JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

The State Of The Internet - Part 2

A few days ago, we posted The State of The Internet numbers that looked more at Internet users than anything else. Pingdom recently posted some amazing stats about "Internet 2009 In Numbers," that are more about the Internet itself. Here are some highlights.


There are:

• 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of Sept 2009; 18% increase in Internet users since previous year.

• 81.8 million .COM domain names at the end of 2009; 12.3 million .NET and 7.8 million .ORG

• 234 million websites as of Dec 2009; 47 million were added in 2009.

• 90 trillion emails were sent on the Internet in 2009. There are 1.4 billion email users worldwide.

• 26 million blogs on the Internet.

• 27.3 million tweets on Twitter per day as of Nov 2009.

• 350 million people on Facebook and 50% of them log in every day. There are more than 500,000 active Facebook applications.

• 4 billion photos hosted by Flickr as of Oct 2009. 2.5 billion photos are uploaded each month to Facebook.

• 1 billion videos served by YouTube each day, and 12.2 billion videos viewed per month. 924 million videos are viewed per month on Hulu in the US as of Nov 2009. The average Internet user in the US watches 182 online videos each month.

The Internet and its use continues to grow at breakneck speed. Let's see what the next year brings.

The State Of The Internet

Focus.com offered this great graphic that tells exactly who uses the Internet, what they do with it, and how often. Unfortunately, the graphic won't go any larger than you see on the left in Blogger, so you'll have to go to Mashable to see it in full.

Here are some of the interesting points that the graphic makes:

- Internet use is as even as it gets. 74% of men use it, but so do 74% of women.

- 93% of people ages 18-29 use it, 70% of people 50 – 64 are online, but only 38% of people 65 and older.

- The higher the income level, the more someone has broadband access.

- 94% of college graduates are online (that low?), while only 39% of people with less than a high school education are.

- Just like you'd expect, Internet use is up significantly in just the past five years. In 2005, 27% of people surveyed used the Internet “several times a day.” Now it’s 38% (once again, that low?)

- 58% of users have a desktop computer while 46% have a laptop.

- Ages 25 – 44 make up the majority of people who blog. Only 7% of people under 25 do but people 55 – 64 make up 14%.

- 54% of bloggers consider themselves experts on whatever it is they’re blogging about, 15% are "confessional" and 16% are "snarky." 41% are journalistic while 44% are "humorous."

- Norway has the highest level of Internet penetration, while the United States is in fifth place.

- Japan has the fastest Internet connections on average with the average speed at a whopping 61mbps!!! The US is 15th with an average of only 4.8mbps.

- The average mobile Internet connection is only about 700 Kbps, which is no surprise if you own an iPhone and you like to surf the web.