Internet Still Expanding, Says 2012 Final Numbers

>> There were 144 billion emails sent per day worldwide.

>> 68.8% of all email traffic was spam.

>> 43% of the top 1 million websites were hosted in the U.S.

>> 48% of the top 100 blogs ran WordPress.

>> 75% of the top 10,000 websites were served by open source software.

>> The average Web page became 35% larger during 2012.

>> There were 246 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains.

>> There were 2.4 billion Internet users worldwide, including 1.1 billion in Asia (565 million in China).

>> 47% of Facebook users were female.

>> 40.5 years was the average age of a Facebook user.

>> 175 million tweets were sent every day.

>> 37.3 years was the average age of a Twitter user.

>> 1.2 trillion Google searches were executed.

>> 4 billion hours of video were viewed on YouTube every month.

>> 7 petabytes of photo content were added to Facebook every month.

—Complete report: royal.pingdom.com/2013/01/16/internet

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