and that is one kickass overview of 2009….

Phenomenal information. Thank you.

Yes nice work

-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.

Does this mean the market shrank, or it grew 22.1% less while maintaining market share.

Ditto other servers

Confusing stats.

How many of those Billions of bed sites are PORN? Got to be about half of them I would say!

Well done. Thank you for the effort. Great to see all this phenominal statistics in one place.

By my calculation, the average email user got 34 legitimate e-mails per day.

247b (including spam) – 200b (spam) = 47b

47b emails / 1.4b users = 34

I find that hard to believe.

@Pingdom – re the IIS stats being -22.1%, thats quite bizarre because all of the other stat companies have IIS with increasing growth, no reducing. Quite bizarre.

On another note, I’ve never heard of Nginx, Lighttpd and whats “Google GFE”? Even more bizarre as I work in the web hosting arena.

Other than that little mistake (by NetCraft)… this is a great ‘overview’

Typo in “1,73 billion”, where in English would be “1.73 billion”.

1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).

Who are the ~330 million internet users who don’t have email addresses?

Nice overview!

Is there also information about digital agenda users?
What is the most used digital agenda? How many people use a digital agenda?

@my last post…

Maybe this is a better question What is the most used e-mail client?

@GTR: you should take a look on Nginx and lighttpd, both are modern, fast and elegant web servers, used by many really big web sites. Way faster than Apache in a lot of typical scenarios.
GFE is the name you can see in the ‘Server’ http header sent by Google on a number of their services, like maps or gmail.

Loved these stats, by the way. Thanks!

Hey, is that 1 as in ONE billion videos I’m seeing there???? That is one hell of a number. Wondering how come Google of all companies is still struggling to make Youtube profitable

Very good post … all numbers in one place. Thank you!

Well done!

As with all statistics, the numbers isolated does not say that much. if you had provided a comparison year by year this would be much more useful.

Excelent work! Translated to Spanish:

http://mangasverdes.es/2010/01/23/estado-internet-diciembre-2009/

@ghabuntu Google struggles to profit because they forgot to hire your brain

very interesting. I’m surprire to see Internet Explorer market share.

Nice one, thanks a lot!

These numbers are absolutely mind-boggling. Thank you for putting your data crunching and analysis skills to the test in putting this post together.

Very intressting. The span mails are incredible. This shows how huge the internet community is grown. Unbelieble!

Thanks 4 Sharing! Very nice stats.

Nice information.
Thank you very much.

interesting information specially the spam

thanks a lot

excellent article and stats, thanks

Great snapshot! Wow, when you look at those enormous numbers… Kinda takes you back for a moment. It’s amazing to see the number of people who use the Internet in one fashion or another. Thank you for gathering this and sharing!

Excellent stats, would be good to compare to what happens in the wide web world this year!

Wow 2010′s gonna be fun

Wow! Amazing

Great collection of stats; thanks.

One quibble: it’s 4.25 million Twitter accounts, and not “People” following @aplusk, and I suspect there’s quite a difference between the “accounts” and “people” thanks to spam, bots et al.

wow just think what the stats will show in 10 year. I bet at least 5 billion internet users

“1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.”

Is this the amount of email acc. on the Internet? Or active users? Because I have like 20+ emails..

~ Good overview

234 million websites? 126 million blogs means only 108 million non-blog websites? Sounds low.

I’m not saying it’s wrong…it probably isn’t, it just surprised me. I thought the number would be higher.

The carbon footprint of spam email can be phenomenal. At 81%, that is 72.9 trillion emails. To store/forward/transmit such a vast amount of email may take huge amount of infrastructure that consumes lot of power. All this is to send the emails to the junk folder where they are never opened. Something must be done to address this than just filtering, which doesn’t address the real problem.

Thanks for gathering all the stats. I wonder how the Twitter community can even digest 27.3 million tweets in a day.

Victor

Useful, interesting stats (the amount of spam is simply unbelievable/gone out-of-control). Thanks for bringing these facts to everyone’s attention.

Loved the Stats.

Indeed. So… why don’t you have any POPs in Asia?

great stats! thanks for sharing these in one spot. Would also be great to see comparisons to 2009 either next to the statistics or one click away.

this is truly amazing statistics! who knew there were so many emails sent out in one year!!!!

@Ebun – we’ll never know !

57% – Twitter’s user base in the US – this is something to think about for brands using twitter for local promotions. (outside the US). would like to see the breakdown for other countries.

Nice info ! about 140k new zombie computers ! Oh my God … It will be new spam fabrics -.-`

16% follow Ashton Kutcher? That’s too many.

Fascinating stats! But, I’m not sure how you’d know “the percentage of emails that were spam”. I’m thinking of all those folks who still wade through stuff and people forced to create filters in their mail client for stuff that slips through their ISP. Sadly, that means the number is probably higher than 81%.

Awesome effort! Thanks a lot.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/01/overallc.png <– yeah IIS did loose 20% or so in 2009 … interesting to see that apache was at its peak in 2005 too!

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unbelievable data

Massive numbers!

Very curious for the 2010 figures.
It’s all about the figures

Amazing numbers! Internet is so big!
Social media is growing fast, because the smartphone are getting used more often.

Very interesting stats! It’s going to be interesting to see stats on social growth next year…

thanks for sharing

90 trillion emails sent on the Internet in 2009! Incredible those numbers.

Thx for sharing those informations about “Internet 2009 in numbers”!

Hey may I quote some of the insight here in this blog if I provide a link back to your site?

As a marketer, all those stats make me salivate.
Done correctly, I still believe the Internet is the best marketing game in town, notwithstanding the 4,000,000,000 who don’t have it.
In my view the Internet of the (near) future encompasses the aggregation of all the marketing channels to some degree.

Whow, keep forgetting that Asia is so massive online. Hard to track those markets. There is much to gain.

Amazing numbers! Internet is so big!
Social media is growing fast, because the smartphone are getting used more often.

Very interesting and useful report on internet stats. I wonder how it is being calculated. Based upon search engine statistics probably?
Another thing is the number of internet users in Australia/Oceania. Australia and New Zealand’s population is about 27 million. And there are 21 million internet users. Seems like everyone has a keyboard under their fingers …
Europe’s population is about 825 million. And internet users are nearly half…

WOw this data is really good. And it clearly gives reasons why youtube is youtube. this data is really precious to me and i am bookmarking it. Hope to find latest data. i was infact googling internet users stat and landed over here.

Thank for research)

62.7 IE? I don’t think so

Is there also information about digital agenda users?
What is the most used digital agenda? How many people use a digital agenda?

What are excellent collections on the internet information?
Here have a lot of important information. Nice work, Thanks` a lot…..

62.7% of Internet Explorer is made up of versions 6,7 and 8. Nothing against it but people should be moving to version 8 as soon as possible.

Nice article by the way.

I am amazed at the stats with all that is going on in today’s techology. If it’s like this in the year 2010, imagine what it’s going to be like in the next 5-10 years. Go technology!!!

Does this mean the market shrank, or it grew 22.1% less while maintaining market share.

Ditto other servers

Confusing stats.

would also be interested to see how 2009 compared with 2008 – these are great numbers (and very nice presentation) – but what is the percentage growth over 2008?

wow

keep forgetting that Asia is so massive online. Hard to track those markets. There is much to gain.Thanks Marc.