{"id":2986,"date":"2010-01-28T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T08:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/2010\/01\/28\/internet-in-2009-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T08:13:52","slug":"internet-in-2009-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/28\/internet-in-2009-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet in 2009: wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>What happened with the Internet in 2009?<\/span><\/p>\n<p >How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p >We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p >Enjoy!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Email<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>90 trillion<\/strong> \u2013 The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>247 billion<\/strong> \u2013 Average number of email messages per day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>1.4 billion<\/strong> \u2013 The number of email users worldwide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>100 million<\/strong> \u2013 New email users since the year before.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>81%<\/strong> \u2013 The percentage of emails that were spam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>92%<\/strong> \u2013 Peak spam levels late in the year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>24%<\/strong> \u2013 Increase in spam since last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>200 billion<\/strong> \u2013 The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Websites<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>234 million<\/strong> \u2013 The number of websites as of December 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>47 million<\/strong> \u2013 Added websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Web servers<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>13.9%<\/strong> \u2013 The growth of Apache websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>-22.1%<\/strong> \u2013 The growth of IIS websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>35.0%<\/strong> \u2013 The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>384.4%<\/strong> \u2013 The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>-72.4%<\/strong> \u2013 The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Web server market share\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4295546152_b8e094e8cc_o.png\" alt=\"Web server market share\" width=\"406\" height=\"210\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Domain names<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>81.8 million<\/strong> \u2013 .COM domain names at the end of 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>12.3 million<\/strong> \u2013 .NET domain names at the end of 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>7.8 million<\/strong> \u2013 .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>76.3 million<\/strong> \u2013 The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>187 million<\/strong> \u2013 The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>8%<\/strong> \u2013 The increase in domain names since the year before.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Internet users<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>1.73 billion<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users worldwide (September 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>18%<\/strong> \u2013 Increase in Internet users since the previous year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>738,257,230<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>418,029,796<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in Europe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>252,908,000<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in North America.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>179,031,479<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in Latin America \/ Caribbean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>67,371,700<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in Africa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>57,425,046<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in the Middle East.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>20,970,490<\/strong> \u2013 Internet users in Oceania \/ Australia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Internet users by region\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4295546114_5130d09d6a_o.png\" alt=\"Internet users by region\" width=\"406\" height=\"210\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Social media<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>126 million<\/strong> \u2013 The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>84%<\/strong> \u2013 Percent of social network sites with more women than men.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>27.3 million<\/strong> \u2013 Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>57%<\/strong> \u2013 Percentage of Twitter\u2019s user base located in the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>4.25 million<\/strong> \u2013 People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter\u2019s most followed user).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>350 million<\/strong> \u2013 People on Facebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>50%<\/strong> \u2013 Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>500,000<\/strong> \u2013 The number of active Facebook applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;\"><span >Images<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>4 billion<\/strong> \u2013 Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>2.5 billion<\/strong> \u2013 Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>30 billion<\/strong> \u2013 At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 ><span >Videos<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>1 billion<\/strong> \u2013 The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>12.2 billion<\/strong> \u2013 Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>924 million<\/strong> \u2013 Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>182<\/strong> \u2013 The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>82%<\/strong> \u2013 Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>39.4%<\/strong> \u2013 YouTube online video market share (USA).<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>81.9%<\/strong> \u2013 Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 ><span >Web browsers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Web browser market share\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4038\/4294800391_edec20a549_o.png\" alt=\"Web browser market share\" width=\"406\" height=\"210\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 ><span >Malicious software<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li ><span ><strong>148,000<\/strong> \u2013 New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>2.6 million<\/strong> \u2013 Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span ><strong>921,143<\/strong> \u2013 The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><span ><em><strong>Data sources:<\/strong> Website and web server stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.netcraft.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/24\/december_2009_web_server_survey.html\">Netcraft<\/a>. Domain name stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/domain-name-services\/domain-information-center\/industry-brief\/index.html\">Verisign<\/a> and<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/webhosting.info\/\">Webhosting.info<\/a>. Internet user stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetworldstats.com\/stats.htm\">Internet World Stats<\/a>. Web browser stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?qprid=0&amp;qpmr=15&amp;qpdt=1&amp;qpct=3&amp;qptimeframe=M&amp;qpsp=131&amp;qpnp=1\">Net Applications<\/a>. Email stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radicati.com\/?p=3237\">Radicati Group<\/a>. Spam stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/us\/local_content\/reports\/7315rpt_threat_1009.pdf\">McAfee<\/a>. Malware stats from<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/eval.symantec.com\/mktginfo\/enterprise\/other_resources\/b-symc_intelligence_quarterly_oct-dec_2009_20949850.en-us.pdf\">Symantec<\/a> (<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/eval.symantec.com\/mktginfo\/enterprise\/white_papers\/b-whitepaper_internet_security_threat_report_xiv_04-2009.en-us.pdf\">and here<\/a>) and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/us\/local_content\/reports\/7315rpt_threat_1009.pdf\">McAfee<\/a>. Online video stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Press_Events\/Press_Releases\/2010\/1\/November_Sees_Number_of_U.S._Videos_Viewed_Online_Surpass_30_Billion_for_First_Time_on_Record\">Comscore<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sysomos.com\/reports\/video\/\">Sysomos<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube-global.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/y000000000utube.html\">YouTube<\/a>. Photo stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.net\/en\/2009\/10\/12\/4000000000\/\">Flickr<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/press\/info.php?statistics\">Facebook<\/a>. Social media stats from <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogpulse.com\/\">BlogPulse<\/a>, Pingdom (<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2009\/11\/13\/in-depth-study-of-twitter-how-much-we-tweet-and-when\/\">here<\/a> and<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2009\/11\/27\/study-males-vs-females-in-social-networks\">here<\/a>), <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/twittercounter.com\/pages\/100\">Twittercounter<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/press\/info.php?statistics\">Facebook<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/10\/twitter-valuation\/\">GigaOm<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span ><em>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2010\/01\/22\/internet-2009-in-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">pingdom<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened with the Internet in 2009? 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