Recent Internet Facts and Statistics
- The # 1 activity on the internet today is: consumers gathering purchase information (US Dept of Commerce)
- Top 5 countries for internet users 1) USA 2) China 3) Japan 4) Germany 5) India - source Neilson /netratings
- Number of years each took to reach 50 million users
Radio - 38 years
TV - 13 years
Cable - 10 years
Internet - 5 years
(Source - Morgan Stanley)
- According to Nielsen NetRatings
The average person each month usually visits 59 domains, views 1,050 pages averaging 45 seconds for each page and spend about 25 hours a month doing this! Each surfing session lasts approximately 51 minutes.
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- 2007 Internet Statistic - Approximately 97.2 million women use the Internet in the United States, compared to 90.9 million men, according to research by eMarketer.
- The eMarketer study estimates that 66.2 percent of female US residents three years of age or older will use the Internet this year (2007) as opposed to 64.2 percent of male residents in the same age range.
- Affiliate Marketing is a $ 95 Billion Dollar industry that is expected to grow to over $ 230 Billion by 2008. (Forrester Research)
According to comScore, online consumer spending grew 26 percent in 2006 to $24.4 billion. More than 80 percent of consumers did at least some shopping online (BizRate and Shop.org Holiday Mood Study 2006), and 50 percent of shoppers bought more stuff online in 2006 than 2005 (NielsenNetRatings research)
- Small to Medium size businesses that utilize Interactive websites have grown 46% faster than those who don't - (American City Business Journals)
- Global internet e-commerce revenues since 1998 are over 444 Billion dollars - NUA
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- Cisco Systems Inc. is today the world's largest Internet commerce site, selling more than $ 32 million in products every day. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
- Online sales will top US $ 184 billion by 2004. The Internet will influence approx. $ 500 billion in offline sales (Forrester Research)
- Over 82 percent of college graduates will search for careers and employment information online - NUA
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- The number of women using the Internet worldwide will pass 96 million, or 45 percent of the world's Internet users in 2001- (Computer Economics)
- 96% of users find web pages through friends, other pages and search engines - websites through magazines 64.3% (GVU)
- 17,000 website domains a day are being added to the Internet
- An estimated 2.8 percent of the world's population is currently online (OCLC Research)
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- Estimated total world online users: 179 million, with a 100+ million in Canada & the USA (USCI)
- About 60% of North American Internet users have used the Web to shop (USCI)
- 85% of Fortune 500 companies now list their Internet Address in their advertising.
- 500 million users projected to be online for 2004 (USCI)
- Currently, the most visited websites on the Web are: Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN
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