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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