Everything That Happened on The Internet in 2012
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Pingdom attempted to get every applicable statistic they could find concerning internet use across the world in 2012. Memorize a few of these stats and bust them out at your next dinner party, impressing everyone with your truth bombs.
Here’s a few. Read a lot more at pingdom.com.
- 144 billion – Total email traffic per day worldwide.
- 68.8% – Percentage of all email traffic that was spam.
- 634 million – Number of websites (December).
- 37 billion – Number of pageviews for Reddit.com in 2012.
- 100 million – Number of .com domain names at the end of 2012.
- 2.4 billion – Number of Internet users worldwide.
- 1 billion – Number of monthly active users on Facebook, passed in October.
- 819,000+ – Number of retweets of Barack Obama’s tweet “Four more years”, the most retweets ever.
- 175 million – Average number of tweets sent every day throughout 2012.
- 1.2 trillion – Number of searches on Google in 2012.
- 1 billion – PSY’s Gangnam Style video became the first online video to reach 1 billion views (currently just over 1.1 billion) and it achieved it in just 5 months.
- 300 million – Number of new photos added every day to Facebook.
