The Internet in Numbers – 2008
Author: Stuart
24
Jan
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.

Filed under: General, Software
5 Responses for "The Internet in Numbers – 2008"
this is EXACTLY the same post as pingdom, only done in a less interesting way
oh.. and you didnt even bother posting a link to the pingdom post that you copied.. i will take the liberty of doing that for you:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008...
Not everyone reads Pingdom and part of the aim is to get folks to read their article.
Pingdom is my initial link in the article and I finish by stating that Pingdom has the full article. Ok – so I didn't include the diagrams and all the facts, but then you'd just say I was plagiarising!
Bloggers can't win – either we don't point you at enough stuff or we're too self centered.
Let me ask – what do you want?
Actually if you bother to look I did – THREE TIMES. The very first pingdom in the post is just to the site itself. Then there's the "internet usage" comment in the first line and finally the very last Pingdom and last word of the article links directly to the full post itself.
There's a problem with my theme and to get links to show up properly I need to embolden them. I''d forgotten to do that for this post but will rectify it presently.
As my prior comment said – we can't win! What is it you want??
I've also now edited my style sheet so that all links are in RED to make them easier to see for any others I may have missed.
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