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The Internet - 2008 Facts and Figures

Pingdom have released some facts and figures relating to internet usage during 2008.

Some of them jump out, others one just wants to say meh at!

Email

  • 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
  • 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).

Websites

  • 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
  • 31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.

Domain names

  • 174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
  • 19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.

Internet users

  • 1,463,632,361 – The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
  • 384,633,765 – Internet users in Europe.

Blogs

  • 133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).

Malicious software

  • 1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
  • 468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.

Full facts and figures over at Pingdom.

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