Some stats on Internet usage in 2009

Email

  • 90 trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
  • 247 billion email messages per day.
  • 1.4 billion email users worldwide.

Websites

  • 234 million websites as of December 2009.
  • 47 million websites added in 2009.

Web Servers

  • 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
  • 35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
  • 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.

Domain Names

  • 81.8 million .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
  • 8% increase in domain names since 2008.

Internet Users

  • 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
  • 18% Increase in Internet users since 2008.

Social Media

  • 126 million blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
  • 27.3 million tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
  • 350 million people are on Facebook.

Images

  • 4 billion photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).

Videos

  • YouTube serves 1 billion videos every day.
  • 12.2 billion videos viewed per month are viewed on YouTube in the US (November 2009).

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