When comparing the number of Google+ recommendations with the number of Facebook likes of this article. Google has a looong way to go in becoming a Social Network..

Hey guys...can anyone tell me how many websites there are in the Caribbean? or where I can get a breakdown of websites per country

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Awesome aggregation of figures in one place. I was just wondering, if and how these figures could lead to an impact on the nascent business of IPV6? For example, if there are 255 million websites - migrating them to V6, would be huge opportunity. Would love some stats/pieces of info co-relating the figures into unique V6 migration challenge and/or opportunity, depending on how one looks at it. thanks

How is it possible that the Internet Users counted in this stat are 1.97 billion if the world population is 6.891.000.000?

@Pingdom: Is this right? Comparing the email traffic back in 2008 and 2009, by end of 2010 email has grown by 30T and spam has grown by 42T. Does this mean that real email has reduced by 12T??

Amazing stats, its time for the digital revolution, everyone as individuals, brands, companies, groups, should be aware of the online presence & it can affect them

INSANITY! over 20 million photos upload on facebook everyday! why people have so much off time, i wonder?

@jordan: 1 billion SMS sent per day in France only (source: regulatory body http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=10743) So it could be inferred these outnumber "non-spam" emails.

In the US?

Thanks for sharing. you mentioned the 30billion content pieces are shared on Facebook per month. Does this include status updates, chats and private messages? Facebook publishes a much higher number for chats and p2p messages only: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-underlying-technology-of-messages/454991608919

As Iria, i would like to compare these data with previous years. Thanks

Do you have any data from past years 2009 or 2008 to compare the information? Thanks for your help! Excelent work!

North America makes up 13.5% of internet users. What percent of online shopping is from North America?

There sure has been an explosive growth with photos and video each gaining 1 billion uploads. That's huge! Thanks for sharing this.

Internet Explorer is shrinking - 2-3 more years and FF will be the 1st :)

Regardless of the discussion about figures being 100% correct or a little up/down, its a fact that internet is getting more and more into our lives and it is not restricted to the developed world only, it is changing life style of people in developing countries also. Putting these numbers in one post here is a great effort overall.

Great post, regardless of how accurate the statistics really are precisely. Is there any detailed info specifically focused on The Netherlands available at one of the original sources used?

Whether it's all correct or not it's still interesting to see what aspects of the digital age users/businesses are attempting to follow/monitor.

I wonder how many sites are mobile?

Wow, a lot of numbers. I never thought that are so many sites. can be calculated only on certain countries?

@Jon including that one "88% of statistics are false." but I love it.

Very interesting, it seems as the Internet grows, the quality of its 'median' information must gradually be declining

I'd love to see the stats on text messages or bbm's sent...i'd bet they'd outnumber emails.

Very interesting numbers. They show why brands enter so massive in social media.

James has raised a few of very interesting points (see a very early comment) but I guess the questions need a completely different way of measuring, quantitative vs qualitative approaches don't always work that well. A very good post and thanks for sharing it!

phillip wood, I was able to find more detailed data only for FACEBOOK in UK and also in the Netherlands (Facebook usage by city) http://russiansphinx.blogspot.com/p/facebook-usage-by-city.html I have never seen other detailed data for example internet usage by city :( so I can not help

Very interesting statistics. May be they are the most important for international companies I suppose!

Internet has changed the way we learn, live and play. The numbers represented here clearly validate this. This trend will continue for months and years to come. It'll soon be unimaginable to live even a day without the Internet, just as electricity and telephone was thought of a few years ago.

Thank you for the rehash. Just wondering what the number of new Domain names in 2010 was? Thank you in advance.

Is it possible to get the entire break down? Maybe in terms of country of continents, but a bit more detailed. I'd appreciate since I run an email marketing firm in Kenya, E Africa

Thanks so much for pulling these stats together and sharing! We loved them so much we actually made a video about them to help educate our clients about how important the internet is and why they need an online presence. It was way too long though (almost 5 minutes) so we had to cull a lot of the Facebook and Twitter stuff out to get it back to about 2-3 minutes. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XyWTGepCHo

I hadn't looked at stats since 2005 and the changes are immense in comparison in 2010. Social media and videos are taking a much higher proportion of internet time and space. There is no doubt the internet is here to stay. Another interesting observation is the dominance of Internet Explorer has diminished to around 50 percent. About 10 years ago it was 90 percent of the market.

wow.. amazing.. Its been calculated.. How about our breath everyday.. anyone can take some calculation..

I had no idea that the U.S was the one with the lowest web users. I guess it makes sense since there's a billion people in Asia and I don't know how many in Europe. Cool facts though! I can use these numbers for sure.

480 million – New email users since the year before. ^is that new email accounts?

kd Orkut? Brazil is one of the fastest growing countries the number of User in the world and is now talking about the USA!

Social "notworking", that's a good one James! Just happens to be what I'm doing now. Thanks for the reality check.

Hello, Would you be able to break any of these figures down to regional areas? If so, how about Leeds or Yorkshire in the UK?

And if we consider that in China YouTube is now really accessible, but they have theirs own "youku" and "tudou" and the Chinese are big fans of movies... I do not want to know the actual number of uploaded movies.

88% of statistics are false.

50 million multiplied by 365 days = 18.25 billion... Quote Siem January 12th, 2011 at 2:34 pm “25 billion – Number of sent tweets on Twitter in 2010″ I don’t think 25 million tweets is correct as there are 50 million tweets sent every day

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