Internet Used Stats in 2009

Royal Pingdom has porsted a stats about "What happened with the Internet in 2009" with some mind-boggling stats. Here you can read some of few of the highlights on how people used Internet in 2009. These stats were compiled from several sources from across the internet. 

Emails
90 trillion emails were sent on the Internet in 2009 with an average of 247 billion new messages per day and 200 billion The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam)..
Website and Domain names
47 million websites were created in 2009 taking the total number of websites to 234 million in 2009. 76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.). 81.8 million domains were .Com
Web servers
The Apache web server grew 13.9%, Nginx (which we use) grew 384.4%. 35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009. 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
Internet users
1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009). Total 738,257,230 Internet users in Asia. The largest users were from Asia, followed by Europe and North America
Social media 
126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
 
Images and Videos 
4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos. 
Web browsers
IE still has 62% market share, followed by Firefox 24.6%, Google Chrome 4.6.
Malicious software 
148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.
 
Now think about what these figures in next year 2011!
source:royal.pingdom.com

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