Ever wondered how much email is sent each year? How many websites there are online? How many videos there are on Youtube? How much people twitter? Etc? Pingdom composed a nice blog about it here, so either click the link for the full post or read some quick stats below:
Email
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year before.
81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
24% – Increase in spam since last year.
200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
47 million – Added websites in 2009.
Web servers
13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
-72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.
Domain names
81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.
Internet users
1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
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
4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.
Videos
1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.
Web browsers
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.
Main data source is Pingdom.com, you’ll find the full list of data sources in their blog post.
Firmly grasping my alarm clock in one hand, I open my eyes. The alarm clock never rang, because I shut it off before it ever had the chance, then I stayed in bed for twenty two more minutes thinking about how I should get up. I thought that I should get up, and then go take a walk, because that’s how a great day should start. Now, twenty two minutes later, I’m sitting by the computer after a quick breakfast and no walk. Outside the clouds have the sky covered, the moon is still up there somewhere behind them, yet the street lamps and the white snow make the world brighter than it needs to be. I don’t feel like walking, I feel like writing, I feel like writing a book. So why resist the urge? It’s typing time.
Woke up late as usual, but the sun was shining today so I ventured outside for a midday walk. There’s a bird tower by the lake, and I was on my way there plowing through a thick layer of snow when I found a little creek in my way. The ice was visible and didn’t really seem thick enough to carry me, but I thought I’d test it a bit and so I stepped out on what I thought was the edge to feel the ice with one foot. Turns out it wasn’t the edge though, and I plummeted straight through with water up to my waist, my feet on a bottom ledge. I quickly crept up backwards and jogged home, took a warm shower after struggling to get my boots off and am now sitting here by the computer with a cup of warm tea and a story to tell. I’m happy it’s not much below zero at the moment, and that the weather is nice and sunny, would probably have caught a big cold if it was, as it was now I didn’t need to catch anything but my breath when I reached the door. Didn’t feel cold at all while jogging home either, but in the shower my legs starting itching like crazy warming up, must’ve been numbed out or something. I had a camera bag in a lower pocket too, flooded, I had just minutes before the ice crushing placed the new camera in a jacket pocket, so it survived, lucky!! It was a morally enriching experience, I suppose, and good exercise, so all in all it’s been a fun and adventurous day.
I wrote a post about this game earlier, just played it some more and took a few printscreens, so here they are for the world to see. Just about every wave (level) in the game up until level 32 is shown here, along with all kinds of foes and powerups. After level 30 the game really gets annoying, even on normal mode. Then there’s difficult and insane, just imagine how that would be?! Anyhow, great game, great timewaster. After each five levels a checkpoint is formed so you can skip back into the game from that level (though your score is reset) if you lose, each tenth level is somekind of boss level, and each level after is just a collect-bonus-points-within-timelimit level. Music builds up overtime, as do enemies and powerups. I didn’t complete the game, no time now, but I guess there are about a hundred levels in it (judging by the leftover space on the checkpoint page), so there’s plenty of gameplay! Anyhow, pictures below.
Bullet Candy is a fun space shooter game full of special effects, like the “game over” screen below …
… or the “next level” screen below. Obviously they’re both animated too, but I couldn’t capture that with a printscreen. Seems like I couldn’t capture the text with a printscreen either, it just dissapeared right out of the picture, but it looks much better without text anyway.
And here’s a pic of the game itself:
It’s a small game (28MB), with smooth gameplay and a nice batch of sequential levels, powerups, etcetc. Pictures say more than a thousand words, so I won’t bother writing too much.
Redefine creativity, Refine activity, Define webdesign, Design the fine signs, Confine aligned lines, Combine kind minds
Keeping the world in rythem, Keeping my words with me.
26/01/2010 
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