49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

Posted by Adam Singer in Popular, Web Trends and News

As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally.

Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web.

I thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at some interesting/amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics. I tried to find stats that are the most up-to-date as possible at the time of publishing this post.

The numbers presented below should be a close representation of today’s numbers (please correct me in the comments if you find more recent numbers somewhere and I’ll update).

Let’s break them down by section:

Google search stats:
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index.

2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily.

$110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008).

68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source: keyword tool).

$39.96 – the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords (source: keyword tool).

1,430,000 – the number of Google results for “Robert Scoble”.

136,000 – the number of Google results for “Admiral Ackbar”.

Wikipedia stats
2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia.

684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year.

75,000 – the number of active contributors to Wikipedia.

10,000,000 – the number of total articles in Wikipedia in all languages.

260 – the number of languages articles have been written in on Wikipedia.

YouTube stats
70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008).

200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008).

100,000,000 – number of YouTube videos viewed per day (this stat from 2006 is the most recent I could locate).

112,486,327 – number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009).

2 minutes 46.17 seconds – average length of video.

412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008).

26.57 – average age of uploader.

13 hours – amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

US $1.65 billion in Google stock – amount Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006.

$1,000,000 – YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day.

Blogosphere stats
133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002.

346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008).

900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period.

1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch, the most popular Technology blog (January 2009).

77% – percentage of active Internet users who read blogs.

55% – percentage of the blogosphere that drinks more than 2 cups of coffee per day.

81 – number of languages represented in the blogosphere.

59% – percentage of bloggers who have been blogging for at least 2 years.

Twitter stats
1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date (see an up to the minute count here).

3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008) (from TechCrunch).

165,414 – number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama) – but he’s not active.

86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose).

63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time).

Facebook stats
150,000,000 – number of active users.

170 – number of countries/territories that use Facebook.

35 – number of different languages used on Facebook.

2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily.

100 – number of friends the average user has.

700,000,000 – number of photos added to Facebook monthly.

52,000 – number of applications currently available on Facebook.

140 – number of new applications added per day.

Digg stats
236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008.

56% – percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users.

124,340 – number of stories MrBabyMan, the number one user, has Dugg.

612 – number of stories from Cracked.com that have made page 1 of Digg.

36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received.