Internet Statistics for 2011!
Internet was great in many respects even before 2011. But from several perspectives was 2011 really a successful year for the Internet. Among other things, I added about 300 million new websites, in total covering the Internet now about 550 million websites. It is unclear on how you have defined sites, it is an all websites including all subpages. Or is it just top site as counted in the number.
Pindom has collected large amounts of Internet data for 2011. From a security perspective, we note that approximately 20% of spam reached the receiver in spite of various filters and security software. To put it in relation to the total number of spam mail, they accounted for 70% of all email traffic. More than three billion messages were sent in 2011. This means that it sent 2.1 billion spam in 2011.
Besides that, we can see a lot of interesting information about Internet use and Internet domains. The most expensive domain sold in 2011 was social.com and went off on the entire $ 2.6 million. It shows that the domain trade really has taken off in recent years. In the case of Internet users was the total 2.1 billion in 2011. Nearly half of them are based in Asia, and fourth in Europe.
As for social media is Facebook by far the largest with over 800 million users at year end. They have increased by 200 million users this year. In total there are 225 million Twitter accounts, but only 100 million of them are counted as active. Of all active tweets are about 20% Lady Gaga. A staggering figure.
Pingdom has made an extensive study and presents lots of interesting statistics on its website. Unfortunately they are a bit diffuse, and presents no definitions of the terms that they use.
