Summary of Internet Usage in year 2009

 The report on 2009’s INTERNET survey was out recently stated below are some of the way it being presented:

Email usage:

1. The total number of emails sent and received counted to 90 trillion.
2. In a day an average of 24.7 crore emails were sent all over the world.
3. A total of 140 crore people used email services in 2009.
4. A total of 10 crore new email users joined and sent mail.
5. An amazing fact is out of the total mails sent 81 percent were spam.
6. The Spam mail count is increased by 24 percent from the previous year (2008).
7. In a day an average of 20,000 crore Spam mails were sent.

Websites and Blogs:

1. At the end of December 2009, there were 23.40 crore websites in the Internet.
2. 4.7 Crore new websites were started in 2009.
3. 8.18 crore websites were having the .com domain, 1.23 crore had .net domain, 78 lakhs had .org domain, the country named domains like .in counted 7.63 crore.
4. Compared to 2008, the number of Internet users is increased by 18% in 2009.
5. Total number of blogs in the Internet by the end of 2009 is 12.6 crore.
6. Interestingly, the number of female bloggers was 84 % more than male bloggers.
7. Number of Face Book users was 35 crores. 50% of them use it daily.

Number of Internet users as per region:

Asia – 73, 82, 57, 230.
Europe – 41, 80, 29,796.
America – 25, 29, 08, 000.
Caribbean and Latin American countries – 17, 90, 31, 479
Africa – 6, 73, 71, 700.
Middle East – 5, 74, 25, 046.
Australia – 2, 09, 70, 490.

Browser Usage:

Internet Explorer – 62.7 %
Mozilla FireFox – 24.6%
Google Chrome – 4.6%
Apple Safari – 4.5%
Opera – 2.4%
Others – 1.2%

 

This information is courtesy Indiastudychannel

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