…and Some More Web 2.0 Stats!
Sorry for the totally unoriginal blog post title but recently I’ve come across some amazing, interesting as well dubious stats pertaining to anything internet, social media or Web 2.0.
This sure doesn’t fall in the same category as I’ve mentioned above but it intrigued me a bit more about the state of things around us i.e. “All Things Web“.
Adam Singer has come collected some amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics there is around us.
Google search stats:
- 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source)
- 2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily (source)
- $110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (source)
- $39.96 - the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords (source: keyword tool)
and few more…
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
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)
- 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)
and few more…
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
- 81 - number of languages represented in the blogosphere
and few more…
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)
- 63% – percentage of Twitter users that are male (from Time)
and few more…
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
and few more…
Digg stats
- 236,000,000 – number of visitors attracted annually by 2008 (according to a Compete survey)
- 56% - percentage of Digg’s frontpage content allegedly controlled by top 100 users
- 36,925 – number of Diggs the most popular story in the last 365 days has received (see story here)
and few more…
After all this, one question [as I asked in my last blog post too]- Are these numbers scalable to the point where it can trickle into $dollars? Do we see a viable Web 2.0 revenue model with all these stats? I know Twitter haven’t, Digg struggling, Facebook trying it heart out…
Please correct me or put me into light if I’m making a wrong assumption!
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January 18th, 2010 at
Great reads on the videos and other, but social media is not new, it is just evolving into a more mainstream and accesible avenue of communication. An avenue that small and big business needs to take advantage of. And CNN use of Twitter is only the beginning, but with Twitter you are limited, other sites such as Rejaw.com allows more text/ which means a bit more info can given without so many tweets. and by the way i'm not one of the technologically hip youth as you put it, i'm of the baby boomer over 50 that says, "Older people tweet too, and not just for fun."