Statistically Speaking – April 2017

Statistically Speaking
The Data of the Internet
Compiled by Amy Hoepfner

Estimated number of web pages in existence in April 2017:  4.52 billion[1]
Amount of annual retail sales contributed to by the internet:  $2.2 trillion[2]
Percentage of United States population who use the internet:  86.75%2
World ranking of United States in percentage of population who use the internet: 252
World ranking of Bermuda in percentage of population who use the internet:  12
Average number of Google searches made each day: 2.9 billion2
Estimated number of servers owned by Google as of July 2016: 2.5 million[3]
Number of blog posts published each day: 2.7 million2
Number of Nerd Word Newsletters published each year: 4
Date the first website was published: August 6, 19912
Percentage of web traffic generated from bots: 56%2
Amount of time it takes to load an average e-commerce site in Google Chrome: 7.5 seconds[4]
In Firefox 7: 7.15 seconds4
In Internet Explorer 9: 7.12 seconds4
Percentage of web users who will abandon a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load:  40%[5]
Annual global IP traffic by the year 2020: 2.3 zettabytes[6]
In bytes, size of a zettabyte:  1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424
In bytes, size of the complete works of Shakespeare: 5,000,000[7]
Amount of global internet traffic estimated by the year 2020: 61,386 gigabytes per second[8]
Number of active Facebook users per month: 1.86 billion[9]
Number of BCER Facebook followers: 148

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[1] http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
[2] https://hostingfacts.com/internet-facts-stats-2016/
[3] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/16/google-data-center-faq/
[4] http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/01/26/new-report-what-weve-learned-from-two-years-of-watching-the-top-2000-e-commerce-websites/
[5] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2992179/enterprise-applications/why-do-websites-take-so-long-to-load.html
[6] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/vni-hyperconnectivity-wp.html
[7] http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/How-many-bytes-for
[8] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/vni-hyperconnectivity-wp.html
[9] https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/