10 Interesting Online Statistics

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

September 28, 2009 [4388 views]

As I start my new teaching year I thought it would be worth presenting some of the interesting Internet statistics that shape the world in which our students will learn and work.

Follow each of these links and ask yourself what effect the technologies or systems involved have on you as a professional. How will you be involved in designing, building or maintaining such systems? What are the trends hidden in such statistics? How do they affect how people view technology, privacy and even energy consumption?

20+ hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/21/youtube-upload-rate-reaches-20-hoursminute

Google may own more than a million servers

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/24/google-may-own-more-than-2-of-all-servers-in-the-world/

John Lewis reported to have spend £750,000 on new fashion site. Expected revenue £70m

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2249498/john-lewis-relaunches-online

17p in every UK retail Pound is spent online

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1036003/Credit-crunch-drives-shoppers-away-High-Street-17p-1-spent-online.html

iPhone apps are worth over $100 million a quarter to Apple

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/app-store-iphone-sales-bring-riches-galore-638693

Bing had 1.29 billion searches in August - up 8.9% on July

http://www.lastclicknews.com/more-bing—microsoft’s-search-engine-is-posting-strong-numbers-10465.html

Nokia sold 60 million smartphones in 2008

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/gabor-toroks-forum-nokia-blog/2009/03/12/smartphone-statistics-2008

The number of words in search queries is getting longer

http://press.experian.com/documents/showdoc.cfm?doc=3455

Some people on Twitter are now followed by over a million followers

http://singularityhub.com/2009/09/16/the-power-of-twitter-accounts-with-massive-followers-or-lack-thereof/

One in 8 in the UK hit by identity theft

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2249630/eight-brits-hit-identity-theft

More interesting stats

http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/

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