All WWW stats

• Top video sites in UK in March 2008
• Asia-Pacific Internet search market in April 2008
• Top video sites in UK in March 2008
• 39% of US households will rent videos online by 2012
• Top Web companies in June 2008
• What Web sites people visit on mobile phones
• Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
• Fifteen most buzzed-about athletes
• Gymnasts ranked by online buzz
• Web site categories with heavy reliance on search engine traffic, June 2008
• US visits to social networking sites in June 2008
• Top search query generators in UK in June 2008
• Time spent on social networks in June 2008
• Traffic to Apple.com after iPhone and iPhone 3G launches
• Online political activities by age
• Who visits online banking sites in Canada
• Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
• Growth in political content sharing and creation since fall 2006
• Top 5 online video US sites, May, 2008
• Top social networks in UK
• 74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam
• Premium Internet video to generate $6 bln by 2013
• Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom
• Political activities of US Internet users as compared to total population
• $68 mln of domain sales conducted in the first half of 2008
• 30% of online ads was sold through ad networks in 2007
• Top Canadian online banking sites in April 2008
• Top video sites in Germany in May 2008
• Top German sites in May 2008
• Demographics of financial news and research sites
• 36% of online Democrats, 21% of Republicans and 28% of independents have a profile on a social networking site
• Top US online video sites in May 2008 by videos per user
• Worldwide spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
• Top US online video sites in May 2008 by number of videos
• Total mortgage loan applications submitted online in Q1 2008
• 18% of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petition
• Top US search engines in June 2008
• Online ad spend for 2008 Olympics to reach $100 mln
• 35% of all adults have watched a politically related video
• Top banking-related searches in Q1 2008
• Top ad carriers in June 2008
• 42% of social networking profile owners say the internet connected them to their candidate
• Location-based mobile social networking to generate $3.3 bln by 2012
• 66% of online Republicans and 58% of online Democrats think that the internet is full of misinformation
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• Top US sites in June 2008
• 10% of social network users engage in political activity of some kind
• Top German online video sites in May 2008
• 20% of television viewing now occurs online
• Traffic to popular UK football sites
• Stats on accessing Internet via mobile device around the world
• Top US social networking sites
• Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
• 19% of all online users are seriously into sports
• Fastest-growing US web sites in May 2008
• Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
• Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains
• Google has 77.4% of US search ad market
• Top US Web sites in May 2008
• New and returning visitors to social networks in May 2008
• Online tools used by those who use the internet in their housing search
• Time spent on social networking in May 2008
• Top US Web companies in May 2008
• 29% of new house buyers believe online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
• Fastest-growing US web categories in May 2008
• Top 10 Web sites by video streams for April 2008
• What do people do when they start looking for a place to live?
• Top online video destinations for US users ages 12-17
• 39% of cell phone buyers research phones on the internet
• Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
• Top search sites in April 2008
• US monthly online video consumption in April 2008
• What online users do after buying music
• 15% of consumer time is spent online, 9% of ad budgets are currently online
• Top US advertising carriers in May 2008
• US Internet user profile by age
• Top US online video sites in April 2008
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• 59% of cell-phone buyers ask an expert for advice
• How cell-phone buyers learn about their future cell phone
• 83% music buyers find their music from hearing a song on the radio, on TV, or in a movie
• 27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
• Top food-related search terms
• Online ad spending to reach $43.4 bln by 2013
• By the end of 2008 online ads will attract 10% of global ad spending
• 60% of new house buyers consulted the internet during their search
• What do music buyers do after buying music online?
• Internet ads grew by 23.9% to $7.1 bln in Q1 2008
• Fatest-growing Web sites in Canada in March 2008
• Top domains by time spent browsing per month in UK in March 2008
• UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
• Video ads will grow 7x from $0.5 bln in 2007 to $3.8 bln in 2012
• How much extra audience does a Web site gain by having a mobile version?
• Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in March 2008
• Top French online video sites in January 2008
• Top domains by time spent browsing per month in United States in March 2008
• Top visited US TV websites in 2006-2008 TV seasons
• Most popular broadcast networks, 2006-2008
• More .cn domains registered than .net
• UK Internet ads to overtake UK TV ads
• Top search engines in April 2008
• Q1 2008 Internet ad revenues reached $5.8 bln
• Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
• Top 10 fastest-growing search terms in April 2008
• Top UK online newspapers in March 2008
• Top US online video sites by videos per user
• Top US online video sites in March 2008
• Fastest-growing Web categories in March 2008
• Top US ad carriers in April 2008
• Top Web sites in US in April 2008
• Top search terms in April 2008: myspace, ebay, myspace.com
• Top airline searches
• Top US search engines in April 2008
• What people do when they start the process of looking for a place to live
• Referers to wikipedia.org
• Top Web companies in April 2008
• Norwegian online advertisers spend 133 euros per user
• Online tools used by those who search for a place to live
• 5% of internet users who found a place to live discussed their new place or neighborhood in an online forum or community
• 4% of Americans discussed cell phones in an online forum or community
• 29% of Americans said online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
• Top dating search terms
• 89% of girls and 76% of boys comment on a friend’s picture
• 58% of US teens have a profile on a social networking site
• US Internet penetration by demographic profile
• What teens do inside social networks
• 37% of social network profile owners write a journal
• 63% of black teens use social networking profiles for communication
• Mobile social networking reach in US and Europe
• 39% of teens say they talk with their friends in person outside of school
• Top US social networking sites in April 2008
• 80% of Internet users to have avatars by 2011
• How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
• Russian Internet usage in February 2008
• 60% of Internet users in Latin American countries are using social networks
• The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
• 45% of US adults like sites that use personal information for advertising or content
• The recruitment sector is the leader of advertising market with 25.7% share
• Top-growing sites in Russia in February 2008
• Online video viewing in December 2007
• Top 5 Video sites in December 2007 across the world
• Insurance leads from different sources and quote completion stats
• Growth in Online Auto Insurance Quotes
• Top URLs in March 2008
• Top US video sites in 2007
• What people do after seeing an ad with an URL
• Interest in Web services among financial industry players
• Top 5 independent online video sites in US in 2007
• Online video consumption in Q1 2008
• 65% of women watch less television due to writers’ strike
• Most commonly searched prescription brands in February 2008
• Who watches video on Presidential candidate sites
• Top 10 video sites by number of video streams for March 2008 in US
• 76% of young adults say they find Internet content targeted
• 59% of internet users use social media to vent about customer-care experience
• Americans aged 35+ check out local/national news first
• Top US online video sites
• Web 2.0 spending to reach $4.6 bln by 2013
• Top German WEb sites in February 2008
• 17.2 bln Yellow Pages searches in 2007
• 60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization
• Fastest-growing search terms
• 70% of newspaper editors think requiring real names would improve comments
• Top-growing web categories in Japan in February, 2008
• 37.6% of Libertarians and 26.9% of Democrats blog
• 75% of China’s online gaming market is virtual item sales
• Top blogging sites in February 2007
• 28% of those online users who listen to radio have a MySpace page
• New Web sites in financial top 100 in December 2007
• Top social networking sites in US in February 2007
• 33 mln Americans listen to online radio stations
• Top financial Web sites by visits in January 2008
• In December 2007 MySpace received 72.32% of US social networking visits
• MySpace got 76% of US social network traffic in 2007
• 21.3% of bloggers seek advice before purchasing products
• Fastest-growing sites in February 2008
• 49.7% of iPhone users accessed a social network in January 2008
• Top downstream industries in January 2008
• Top upstream industries in January 2008
• Fastest-growing Web categories in February 2008
• 14% of mobile phone owners watched video on their cell phone
• Top 20 websites in January 2008
• 38% of sports fans will download a game online in the next 2 years
• Top video sites by videos streamed
• Top Web sites in February 2008
• Top financial search terms in January 2008
• Top 10 Web companies in February 2008
• Top-growing Web categories in Japan in January 2008
• Online games market in China to reach $3 bln by 2010
• Top 10 Web advertisers in February 2008
• Top video sites
• Top Downstream Search Engines in January 2008
• Top Upstream Search Engines in January 2008
• Top video sites by number of videos in January 2008
• Websites dropped out of top 100 in January 2008
• 55% of online shoppers think about payment methods when checking out
• Top US video sites in January 2008
• 49 out of top 100 sites use Apache
• US online ad spending to reach $24.8 bln in 2008
• Top-growing German media sites
• Network TV Web site visitors overlap
• 32 mln insurance quotes were submitted online in 2007, 2 mln policies bought
• 54% of movie goers see movie trailers online
• Insurance e-servicing visits grew 15% in 2007
• Most of heavy bloggers read blogs more than other sites
• Top sites on user engagement
• 28% of online teens consider themselves an internet expert
• 84% of Internet users search, 83% use maps
• 60% of wealthy Americans use social networks
• Fastest-growing German Web categories in January 2008
• 22% of Americans read blogs regularly
• Fastest-growing German sites in January 2008
• Top German Web sites in January 2008
• Fastest-growing Web categories in Japan in December 2007
• Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in January 2008
• 70% of users research everyday grocery products online
• Fastest-growing Canadian sites in January 2008
• 43.74% of Web traffic to health sites is from search engines
• Top Web companies in January 2008
• 37.6% of Libertarians regularly/occasionally blog
• 43% of Web users cannot find commercial information online
• 95% of MySpace December 2007 traffic was repeat visitors
• 17% of Web users think official product sites are useless
• Top-growing Web categories in Canada in January 2008
• 26% of adults say they regularly or occasionally blog
• In-game ads generated $295 mln in 2007
• 73% of Web users watched 6.2 bln video streams in December 2007
• Widget and social app ad spending to reach $40 mln in 2008
• Top Web sites in Canada in January 2008
• 35% of Americans aged 65+ get their news online
• What Superbowl viewers did online on Superbowl dat
• 22% of young US women watch network TV Web videos
• Top 10 online video sites in December 2007
• 93% of Veoh visitors go to Youtube
• Top US search Engines in January 2008
• Top German sites by share of international visits
• Top US video sites for kids in December 2007
• Top online advertisers in January 2008
• 70% of bloggers are white
• Platform A ads reach 91% of Americans
• Fastest-growing US Web sites in January 2008
• 34% of North Americans use IM monthly
• $21.1 bln spent on Internet ads in 2007
• Global ad market reached $600 bln in 2007, 7.4% of it was Internet
• 70% of young Brits log onto social networking sites
• Top-growing US web categories in January 2008
• 56% of low-income Americans go shopping once a week or more often
• 33.5 bln professional video streams delivered in 2007
• 78% of online consumers spend 10+ minutes reading reviews
• 63% of Americans use roughly the same password for different online accounts
• 33% of online teens say they work on pages for others
• Top US dating sites
• People spend 17 min 7 sec per visit to a dating site
• Newspaper sites viewership by month, 2007
• Traffic to Presidential candidate Web sites in January 2008
• Top US social networking sites in December 2007
• 73% of social networking teens posting pictures, 22% - posting video
• 3.25 hours of online video per user watched in December 2007
• 60% of Americans get news about the presidential election from television
• 77% of social network users creating some type of content
• 141 mln Americans viewed an online video in December 2007
• Top US video sites in December 2007
• Fastest-growing sites in Japan in December 2007
• Top European job sites in Q4 2007
• 41% of online users used the Web to self-diagnose or self-treat a condition
• 59% of young Web users read campaign news online
• Spending by dating sites in Q1-Q3 2007
• Super Bowl advertiser websites by US visits in 2008
• Online dating will increase to $1.9 bln in 2012
• 34% of health searchers use social media to find useful information
• 59% of adults use online resources to obtain health information
• Where dating services spend money, Q1-Q3 2007
• 50% of Asian companies see Web 2.0 as a significant business opportunity
• 24% of Americans saw a campaign-related online video
• 66% of young Americans use social networks for candidate information
• Presidential campaign news sources for younger Americans: MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo!
• Click fraud at 16.6% in Q4 2007
• Top video sites: YouTube, MySpace
• 155 bln sites in December 2007
• 34 bln user-generated video impressions in 2008
• 25% of Americans under 30 use social networks for campaign information
• 60% of users search online health resources at least monthly
• 78% of Internet users visited government Web sites
• 59% of online adults seek health info online
• 50% of companies block some of Web 2.0 services
• 14% of health searchers turn to social networks
• 25% of media will be consumed online by 2011
• Mobile search and display revenues will reach $1.91 bln by 2012
• US online ads to reach $50.3 bln by 2011
• 66% of online doctors forwarded content to colleagues
• Presidential candidates in blogs: Barack Obama - 0.59%, Hillary Clinton - 0.51%
• 51% of marketers cannot track campaigns across multiple channels
• Paid video streams will reach 2.4 bln by 2012
• There were 155 mln sites in January 2008
• US kids download video clips to a device 7.1 times a month
• 14% of Americans post videos online
• 81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
• 20% of employees casually browse Internet, use P2P at work
• Top-growing Web categories in Japan
• Firefox reached 28% in Europe by year-end 2007
• Top social networking sites in US in December 2007
• User-generated content and birth control attitudes
• 37% of all large US companies use just 1 language on their Web site
• Women and younger consumers have higher levels of engagement online
• Most streamed Internet songs in 2007
• 15.4% of Web users can turn the television off if Hollywood writers’ strike continues
• 55% of US teens have a social networking profile
• Ads should be on 15-20% of visible Web page
• Where women turn to for health information
• 57% of online users navigate their favorite sites from the home page
• 91% of US teens use social networks to stay in touch with friends they see frequently
• Social shopping grew 8x in 2007
• Top online activities by US teens in 2007
• 60% of young adult Americans get their political news from TV
• In 2006 6% of ad money was spent online in Japan
• 50% of Americans network with colleagues on community sites
• Top Web server developers in December 2007
• 59% of online Americans looked up health information on the Web
• Social network ad market to grow to $2.2 bln in 2008
• 82% of US teens use social networks for messaging
• Americans viewed 9.5 bln Web videos in November 2007
• Top video sites in November 2007: Google/YouTube, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN
• 42% of teens who are on social networks also have a blog
• Web server numbers, September 2000 - December 2007
• 27% of online teens creating their own Web pages
• 55% of online content created by girls
• 42% of US adults get their political news from the Internet
• 70% of young adults visit video-sharing sites
• Internet ads to grow 14.4% in 2008
• 69% of Americans think PCs are more entertaining than TV
• Firefox and IE market shares in December 2007
• 48% of Americans visit video-sharing sites
• 53% users of video-sharing sites are male
• 20% of companies use wikis
• IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
• Online backup services to generate $715 mln by 2011
• 22 bln views of user-generated videos in 2007
• 45% of US Internet users are creating and sharing content
• UK Internet ad spending to grow 30.8% in 2008
• Only 16% of small businesses use blogs and podcasts
• 38% of US consumers watching TV shows online
• Online dating revenues up 10% in 2006, 8% from now on
• Online video to generate $9.7 bln by 2011 just in the US
• 65% of video consumers prefer professional video to user-generated
• 86% of Internet users download video content monthly
• Top video sites by visitors in September 2007
• Top video sites in September 2007
• 24% of Internet users read reviews
• Only 31% of Web sites do A/B testing
• 42% of Chinese Internet use addicted to the Web
• Top blogging sites in October 2007
• Top social networks in October 2007
• Top newspaper Web sites in October 2007
• 43% of US teens use IM for things they would not say in person
• 39% of Web users know what widgets are
• 62% of online users bought travel online in 2006, 68% in 2005
• 72% of social networking users would never pay to use the site
• 44% of large organizations have log files of 1 TB and more
• By 2011 only 16% of global population to be Americans
• 24% of US kids and teens visit online worlds
• 12 mln Americans paid for online video content
• Social networks made $400 mln in revenues in 2006
• 183 mln online video viewers by 2011
• 34% of US Internet users play online games regularly
• 66% of online US females watch videos online
• 33% of UK Web users prefer video content
• Only 20% of movie downloaders would download again
• Less than 5% of Internet users have purchased a movie download
• 67% of tech journalists cite blogs as their sources
• Online photo services generated $450 mln in 2006
• 36% of US online users feel positive towards Google, 32% - towards Yahoo!
• 34% of adult US Internet users play games online
• 1 bln Internet users to watch videos in 2012
• Online users trust newspaper articles and customer reviews most
• 47% of time spent on the Web is viewing content, 33% on communications tools
• 93% of IT professionals use online communities for help
• 4% of US youth have been asked for sexually explicit photos
• 15.8% of clicks in Q2 2007 were fraudulent
• Fewer than 2% of US Internet households pay for Internet video
• Asia-Pacific online gaming to grow at 15.7% a year
• 13 mln unified messaging clients to ship by 2011
• 40% of MySpace users use other social networks
• Online game revenues reached $4.5 bln in 2006
• 11% of online Americans listen to podcasts
• Number of online gamers to increase by 51% between 2006 and 2012
• Online game market generated $4.5 bln in 2006
• Top UK video sites in April 2007
• 76% of Americans have streamed video online
• Time spent Republican and Democrat videos on YouTube
• Top widget companies: Slide, RockYou, PictureTrail, PhotoBucket
• E-books to generate $9.4 mln by 2010
• 12% of online users have bought video on the Internet
• Online entertainment services infrastructure to reach $4.1 bln by 2011
• 75% of users 18-25 are generating content
• Paid video will peak in 2007 with $279 mln in revenues
• 60 mln US households to pay bills online by 2012
• 35% of Americans do online research before visiting a new restaurant
• 30% of social network users pay for premium features
• $80 mln earned off user-generated content in 2006
• 51% of online Hispanics prefer a Spanish language Web site
• 80% of Internet users to have a second life by 2011
• 54% of girls and 40% of boys post photos online
• Only 6% of teens post their firstname and lastname online
• 84% of social networking users have posted on the walls
• US social networking breakdown: MySpace - 85%, Facebook - 7%
• 85% of parents of online teens have rules on sites the kids can and cannot visit
• 40% of teens think their profiles do not divulge any personal info
• 64% of boys with social networking profiles post fake info
• 55% of online teens have social networking profiles
• 49% of social network users use social networks to make new friends
• 32% of online teenagers have been contacted by complete strangers online
• 89% of employers are open to video resumes
• Only 22% of US Internet users downloaded a full-length movie or TV show
• Internet video streaming up 38.8% in 2006
• Premium video to generate $277 bln by 2010
• 34% of US online users have talked to other online users about health issues
• 92% of Web productivity tools users use Google Docs and Spreadsheets
• Internet movie and TV show downloads to top $4 bln in 2011
• 697 mln Internet coupons printed out in 2006
• Internet video services to generate $7 bln by 2010
• 57% of teachers rely on Internet news
• 80% of Americans who downloaded a movie online used P2P sites
• 47% of all online videos are user-generated
• Global online video sales 2006-2010
• 5% of Internet video viewers have paid for a movie download
• 6 mln US households downloaded P2P video, 1.2 mln paid for legal videos
• 81% of broadband users run pop-up blockers and spam filters
• 500 mln pounds to be spent on online videos by 2011
• Mainstream audience for podcasts: males with 6+ years of Internet experience
• 20% of Americans use Internet as their primary source of science news
• Sites visited by mobile Web surfers
• Top video sites by unique visitors: Yahoo!, MySpace, YouTube
• Top video sites by the number of streams: MySpace, Yahoo!, YouTube
• 49% of men and 39% of women read political news on the Internet
• What cancer searchers do after researching cancer on the Internet
• Online movie download market: iTunes - 67%, MovieFlix - 19%, CinemaNow - 9%
• YouTube.com streaming statistics
• 80% of American Internet users researched health topics online
• Top news sites in September 2006: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN
• Top personals sites in North America, UK, France and Germany
• 13% of current peer-to-peer downloaders would pay $20 per movie
• Broadband video ASP market to generate $1.9 bln by 2011
• 163 mln concurrent video streams to be delivered by 2011
• Newspaper Web sites get 55.5 mln unique visitors a month
• 65 bln pageviews on user-generated content sites by 2010
• 55% of social network visitors view streaming videos
• 1,150,000 Russian blogs, LiveJournal.com the most popular community
• 34 mln blogs in China
• 66% of students get their news online
• 49% of moviegoers research the movie on the Internet before going
• Total number of US video uploaders is comparable to US online gamblers
• 19% of US Internet users get political news off the Internet
• Video on demand to generate $12.6 bln by 2006
• 46% of online users watch an online video at least once a week
• 98 mln instant messaging users in China
• YouTube facts
• USA hosts 67.23% of generic TLDs
• 828.6 mln IM accounts in China
• 16% of portable videos to be delivered over the Internet by 2011
• 9.2 mln Americans have downloaded a podcast, 5.6 mln downloaded video
• 13% of teenagers have received a sexual solicitation online
• Most domain registrations by country in European Union
• 23% of broadband households would buy downloadable movies at $10 a pop
• 131 mln households to subscribe to online content services by 2010
• UK Internet users spend 43 minutes a week on gambling sites
• Top 10% of YouTube videos generate 79% of plays
• Fewer women bet on sports in the UK
• Video and music downloads generated $1.4 bln in sales in 2005
• Third of all new vehicles in 2012 to support Bluetooth
• Top-growing nameservers in US, Germany, Canada, UK, China
• $12 bln was spent in offshore casinos in 2005
• $1.1 mln spent on online movie rentals in 2005
• 85% of kid-centered brands provide games online
• 30% of US small business still do not have a Web site
• In July 2006 Firefox has 12.93% of global market share, IE - 83.05%
• Video streaming market shares: WindowsMedia - 60%, Flash - 19%, Real Video - 10%
• 30% of 18-24-year-olds worry about being stalked online
• WWW is the primary media for getting news at work
• Top TLDs: .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org
• 58% of B2B site visitors complete their tasks successfully
• Ads on parked domain ads to reach $1 bln by 2007
• 3.7 bln online videos viewed in March 2006, 52% of online video audience are males
• Employees surf Internet for personal reasons 3.1 hours a week
• 48% of RSS publishers spend $250K+ on RSS deployments
• 14% of teens have met face-to-face with strangers they met online
• 4% of Americans have gambled online
• 5,851 domain names sold for $29 mln in 2005
• 30 mln .com domains registered monthly, 90% of them dropped
• 8% of Internet users delete their cookies very frequently
• Streaming video and music to generate $27 bln by 2011
• 23 mln Western Europeans to trade online by 2010
• 53% of European Internet users are passive Internet surfers
• In 2006 only 43% of US kids and teens downloaded copyrighted content
• Domain trade generated $14.2 mln in Q1 2006
• 1 454 128 .eu domains, 1 352 984 .biz domains registered
• Top online banking sites: Wachovia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase
• In 2005 33% of new online savings applications went to ING Direct
• 33% of new online banking customers are lured by free banking products
• 40 mln Americans used online banking in Q4 2005
• 49% of Europeans and 37% of Americans use instant messengers
• 500,000 domains registered in Russia
• Internet video services will generate $1.7 bln by 2010
• 21% of young Internet users read blogs regularly
• 14.9 mln video streams of NCAA games originated from CBS sites
• 2 mln Americans have met their spouses online
• 24% of Internet users watch videos at least once a week
• 45% of Internet users have registered at news sites to gain access to news
• 62% of broadband Americans have explored political news online
• 6% of Internet users have paid for news content
• 39% of all Internet users and 44% of broadband Americans head to portals for news
• Top registrars by new domains added between Sep 2005 and Feb 2006: GoDaddy, DirectNIC, eNom
• 82% of US teens have a PC, 71% have Internet access, 44% buy online
• 50 mln Americans read news on the Internet
• Only 39% of Internet users view dating site users as desperate
• 74% of single Americans have explored online dating
• Paid online content spending reached $2 bln in 2005
• Top video sites: MSN Video, YouTube, Google Video
• Online gambling reached $10.9 bln in 2005
• Number of new domains by registrars in the past 6 months
• Bebo is the most popular brand among UK teens who are online
• 24% of customer support requests in multichannel businesses are handled through Web
• 66% of online users never read blogs
• 9.67 mln simultaneous P2P users in January 2006
• 100 mln casual game players online
• 66% of teenagers send more IMs than e-mail
• For eating out online users head to Yahoo! and MSN
• Flickr has 100,000,000 photos
• 10 bln IM messages exchanged daily
• 29% of digital magazine subscribers use RSS feeds
• 87% of Canadian students use IM, webcam or telephone for sex
• Most quoted news sources in blogs: NYT, CNN, Washington Post, Yahoo! News
• 13% of Internet users watch movie previews online, 5% download movies
• 5% of Internet users paid for dating sites
• US spending on digital content generated $987 mln in the first half of 2005
• 70-80% of Netflix rentals are long tail
• 39% of singles have met someone via online dating
• 20,000 new video uploads daily on YouTube.com
• 45% of UK Internet users bank online
• 2.3 mln people took online courses in 2004
• 11% of visitors to local radio stations download podcasts
• 20% of adult industry revenues are Internet-driven
• MySpace has 47.3 mln members
• Top gaming sites in October 2005: Yahoo! Games, Pogo, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
• Top US online banks: Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America
• 78% of podcast listeners are male
• 30% of Internet users go to cable TV sites for news
• 10-20% of blogs are spam blogs
• 51% of UK online banking users interested in mobile banking
• Top news sites: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN, AOL News
• 75 mln podcast users by 2010
• 87% of North American 15-year-olds use IM
• 32% of online consumers prefer electronic statements and bills
• Online maps market: MapQuest - 71%, Yahoo! Maps - 32%, Google Maps - 25%
• 72% of US small businesses have a Web site
• 50% of US Internet users went online for hurricane news
• 47 mln of US households will pay bills online by 2010
• Online dating attracted $245.2 mln in Jan-Jun 2005
• Most popular newspaper sites: NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post
• 26% of online Americans visit newspaper sites
• 52 mln Americans use file-sharing apps
• Only 17% of companies use Web analytics
• 66% of teens send more IMs than e-mails
• 58% of small businesses have a Web site
• 14% of online travel researchers turn to major portals
• 5K podcasting feeds in May 2005
• US spending on online content up 16% in the first half of 2005, music spedning up 45%
• 57% of US teens created content online, 19% run blogs
• 50% of 16-18-year-olds downloaded software and music online
• 16% of active Russian Internet users aware of blogs, LiveJournal claims the largest mindshare
• 19% of small businesses use online banking
• 56% of Americans have watched streaming video online
• 28% of Internet users know what podcasting is, 2% subscribe to podcasts
• RSS users make more money
• 27% of Web users consume RSS content, most on personalized start pages
• 28 mln enterprise instant messaging users worldwide, 1 bln messages daily
• Sales of .org domains in India up 31% in Q1-Q3 2005
• Browser usage for September 2005: IE - 88.46%, Firefox - 7.86%
• 10% of Web users read blogs at least once a week
• 28% of UK taxi drivers, pub owners and hairdressers know about blogs
• 30.1% of Washington DC Web users read WashingtonPost.com
• Average bank site is offline 15 hours a week
• RSS users are 78% male, 48% Internet users, but 83% are not aware they are using RSS
• 76.5% of adults listen to music over the Internet, 65.4% play Internet games
• Top celebrities online daters hope to meet: Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom
• Top Web annoyances: pop-ups, requiring extra software, dead links
• 70% of offline mobile phone buyers researched online
• Online newspaper revenues up 36% in 2005
• 32% of online banking customers increased monitoring of their accounts
• 6% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS
• 32% of Web users would allow click and purchase tracking for better personalization
• 15% of home buyers discovered their new home on the Web in 2004
• 12 mln fantasy players in the US
• Online map site shares: Yahoo! Maps - 41%, MapQuest - 33.4%, Google Maps - 9.45%
• 51% of men and 51% of women have used online banking in the past 30 days
• 50% of Web users have never heard of RSS
• 5% of Web users use desktop RSS aggregators, 6% use Web aggregators
• Browser market share in July 2005: IE - 87.2%, Firefox - 8.07%, Mozilla Suite - 0.52%, Opera - 0.49%
• 82% of consumer magazines plan to up their Web efforts within the next 12 months
• Political and current events blogs get 43% of visits
• Top blog sites: Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad, Xanga
• 30% of US population visited blogs in Q1 2005
• Online banking usage highest among 18-24 year olds
• 59% of online Hispanics use instant messaging, 55% listen to music online
• What people consider when dating online: photo, description, hobbies
• 14% of men and 14% of women try out online dating to find true love
• Most popular ways to find dates: friends, bars, online, work
• New Zealand Internet users learn about new sites from friends, families, search engines
• 57% recall using Web site for help, then calling customer service and still receiving no help
• Online poker to reach $2.4 bln in 2005
• Online airfare shoppers visit 3.2 sites on average before buying
• Top RSS aggregators: My Yahoo! - 59.02%, Bloglines - 10.42%
• 30 mln Americans will purchase mobile video content by 2010
• 38% of online travel companies have unclear privacy policies
• 60% of men but only 44% of women know what adware is
• 79.8% of 18-24-year-olds use instant messaging, 29.6% read blogs
• 26% of Internet users have no idea what RSS feed is, 23% have never heard of podcasting
• In Japan and Korea at least 80% of all security trading is happening online
• Online content market worth $1.1 bln in China, $93 mln in India
• 13.9 bln instant messages are sent a day, 46.5 bln daily by 2009
• 13% of Web sites of top 100 companies will share personal information without customer’s permission
• 52% of North American women and 39% of men play online games monthly
• 5 mln bloggers in China
• 30% of consumer magazine Web sites offer RSS
• 33.7% more digital magazines in the second half of 2004
• More than 60% monitor their bank balances online
• 63% of online Americans use online bill payment
• Rich people more likely to delete cookies
• NYTimes.com RSS feeds get 7.3 mln hits monthly
• 2.76 mln new domains bought in June 2005
• US online donations reached $3 bln in 2004
• 83% of prospective online investors seek low fees, 82% - fast and reliable sites
• Just 1% of online daters have less than average looks
• 21% of video-on-demand users are interested in buying movies over the Web
• 2% of online maps are wrong
• 8% of adult online Americans participate in fantasy leagues
• 16% of online Americans have used Web cams
• 64% online users check their bank balances primarily online
• 51% of journalists read blogs on a regular basis
• 16.7% of online retailers reject third-party cookies
• Online donations up 63% in 2004
• 73.7 mln Web users went to porn sites in April 2004, 70.7 mln in April 2005
• Most popular Web sites among gays and lesbians: Google, Yahoo!, Amazon
• MSNBC.com delivers 30 mln video streams monthly
• 70% of Web users would rather have their cars broke into than computers
• Online newspaper pageviews up 38% in March 2005
• 42% of online users applied for loans online, 83% applied for credit cards online
• 53.4 mln blogs by year-end 2005
• 50% of employees access Internet for personal reasons
• Micropayments to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
• 53% of online banking customers use other online services
• Corporate blogging exists in 4% of major US corporations
• Average blogger household income is $57,900
• Web analytics to generate $275 mln in 2005
• 12% of US young adults don’t read newspapers anymore, 44% daily visit a Web portal
• 3.35 mln Japanese Web users have blogs
• Only 35% of Web users wishing to delete cookies know how to do it
• 15% of blog readers ever leave a comment
• 67% of local buyers research online
• Craigslist facts: 2 bln monthly pageviews
• 22% of French Internet users gamble online
• 44% of US 18-34 year-olds get their daily news online
• News sources most frequently quoted by blogs: Yahoo! News, NYT, CNN
• 2.6 mln Americans enrolled in online classes in fall 2004
• 26% of online adults use Web as main source for news
• Top digital magazines: eWeek, Computer Weekly, Microsoft Certified Professional
• In March 2005 users spent 37.4% of their time on news sites, 17.8% on shopping, 40.3% on communication
• 10% of UK teenagers visit adult Web sites
• 40% of online US adults have read a political blog
• 4.5 mln MSN Spaces blogs, 170,000 updated daily
• 3% of Americans read blogs daily
• Reports of child pornography online up 300%
• 73.9% of women and 62.1% of men research health topics online
• Online poker is a $1.4 bln industry
• BBC audio streams demand reaches 6.8 mln hours in February 2005
• Spending on online content reached $1.8 bln in 2004, up 14%
• 35-40% of US small businesses have a Web site
• Web classifieds was a $2 bln industry in 2004
• Satisfaction with online banking up 5.5% compared to 2004 level
• 33% of British companies give staff instant messaging access
• 39% of Internet users delete cookies on a monthly basis
• 66.3 mln domains registered globally, 5 mln in Q3 2004
• Craigslist facts: 19 countries, 99 cities, 5 mln postings a month
• 20% of online consumers look to others for medical advice
• 29% of US adults used Internet for political news in 2004
• Online gambling generated $9.2 bln in 2004, driven mainly by poker
• 47% of Americans know about downloading movies, only 4% do it
• Firefox share climbs to 8.45% in February 2005
• Video revenues to reach $36 bln in 2009, IPTV to grow at 24% a year
• 2.5 mln single Americans pay for dating sites
• 47% of online Americans increased online news usage, 4% decreased
• 13% of online Americans use Web cams
• By year-end 2005 8-10% of instant messages to be unsolicited
• 5% of Web users watch streaming video daily
• 14.2 bln videos streamed over the Internet
• 5 mln domains registered in Q3 2004
• ProFlowers traffic up 156%, FTD up 106% before Valentine’s Day
• Online dating revenues to grow 9% in 2005
• 44% of online Americans bank online
• 5% of Internet users watch online video daily
• Gambling revenues to top $10 bln, poker revenues top top $2 bln
• 24% of travel companies never answer customer inquiries
• 36% of electronics buyers looked up to the Web media for advice
• Only 55% of teens browse the Web successfully
• Roughly 55,000 Web users pay for online storage, 500,000 users pay for .Mac
• Only 5% of mortgages will be obtained online in 2009
• 53 mln North Americans use instant messaging
• Internet Explorer share slips to 90.3% in December 2004
• Online job boards’ revenues up 47% in Q3 2004, newspaper ads up 16%
• Online classifieds sites generated $217 mln in Q3 2004
• Web users spent 40.1% of time on communication, 38.7% on browsing content, 17% on e-commerce
• 94% of car dealers have a Web site
• IntelliSeek points to the most popular news items for blogs in 2004
• Blockbuster.com traffic surpasses Netflix
• Top movie sites: IMDB, MovieFone, Yahoo! Movies, NetFlix
• For 81% of small businesses Web sites generated leads
• 95% of users hate pop-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers
• US business publications earned $1.2 bln online in 2004
• 5.1 mln domain registrations in Q3 2004
• Americans 18-34 prefer browsing Internet (46%), watching TV (35%), reading a book (7%)
• Web usage among kids under 12 grows 36%
• Microsoft still owns 88.79% of the Web browser market
• $583 spent on online content in first half of 2004
• NewsStand readers on newspaper readers online
• 55% of child pornography produced in the US, Russia is second with 23%
• 87% of online Americans participate in online communities
• Adults 18 to 54 choose Internet and TV as primary media outlets
• On election night Bush’s site got 317K visitors, Kerry’s - 306K
• 41% of online Americans believe free trade is bad for US economy
• 70% of online Americans oppose gay marriage
• 53% of online Americans support war in Iraq
• More than 40% of Americans online get their political information online
• Females who support George Bush visit family and sports sites, females who support John Kerry visit finance and advice sites
• 5 mln copies of Firefox Web browser downloaded
• 40% of UK companies banned instant messaging
• Online dating market to grow 19.4% in 2004
• 16% of visitors to online dating sites are above 55 years old
• 38% of Americans (52% of online Americans) rely on Internet for election coverage
• Nielsen surveys 37K users, comScore 1.5 mln for audience measurement
• 64% of online Canadians use online banking sites
• 81.5% of visits to United Nations Web site look for English pages
• 86% of enterprise instant messenger buyers are not affected by AOL and Yahoo! exit
• 29 mln users are running Claria adware
• Free car giveaway increases traffic to Oprah.com by 800%
• 38.8% of Internet users generate 73% of page views
• 18% of F500 use instant messaging
• Asia-Pacific Web hosting market to grow at 15% a year
• Online movie downloads make up 0.3% of movie rental industry
• MSN Messenger overtakes AOL AIM and ICQ as top instant messenger
• Average user to need 14.7 MB for messaging
• Netflix owns 90% of online DVD rental market
• 182 mln people to use instant messaging in 2007
• Micropayments to generate $11.5 bln in 2009
• 40.3% of online time spent communicating, 37.1% - reading content
• South African online media attracts 3.5 mln readers monthly
• 28% download porn at work
• 53 mln Americans use instant messaging
• 57% of travelers prefer third-party sites to hotel sites
• 19.1% of site visitors use search functionality
• Macromedia Flash market penetration
• Two-thirds of small business prefer online banking to offline
• Nascar.com visitors buy the most charcoal
• Male Internet users 18-34 are ok with pop-ups
• 45% of Web sites use a .com address
• 21% of blog readers are bloggers
• Only 7 of top 20 news domains belong to newspapers
• BitTorrent beats Kazaa, accounts for 53% of P2P traffic
• Real estate sites experience double-digit growth