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Internet Marketing Central
Internet Fast Stats
Posted: October 10, 2006
These statistics were
gathered from across the Internet (October 2006) and paint an
interesting snapshot of the state of the Internet, its traffic levels,
commerce estimates, and user behaviors.
- The number of
people using the Internet has risen 200% since 2000
- An estimated 1.08
billion people use the Internet as of September 18th, 2006
- English is the
most used language on the Internet at 29.7%, followed by “Chinese
13.3%, Japanese 7.9%, Spanish 7.5%, German 5.4%, and French 4.6%”
- The
most widely used web browser is Internet Explorer 6 at 56%, followed
by Foxfire at 27%
- The search engine
of choice is Google with a 43.7% usage rate, followed by Yahoo
(28.8%) and MSN (12.8%)
- Email is second
only to telephones for the most used form of communication
- An estimated 171
billion emails are being sent each day with 2 million going out
every second
- Twenty-nine
percent of emails sent are genuine; the rest are spam
- According to
comScore, Google alone receives 91 million search requests a day
- Sixty-three
percent of U.S. Internet users (approx. 109 million people)
performed a local search online in July 2006
- Google and Yahoo!
receive the most local searches followed by Microsoft and Time
Warner Network
- Forty-one percent
of those conducting a local search were searching for something in
their home area, as opposed to searching for information on
businesses in locales that they intended to visit
- During the second
quarter of 2006, 47 percent of local searchers visited a local
merchant as a result of their search behavior and more than
one-third made contact online
- Approximately
$984.9 billion ($26.3 billion adjusted) in total retail e-commerce
sales were made during the 2nd quarter of 2006
- Millions of items
available through auction and fixed-price trading at eBay every day
- eBay has 203
million confirmed register users, 78 million of which are active
- As of the 2006 2nd
quarter, eBay has posted 596 million new listings and showed a gross
merchandise volume of $13 billion
- On August 8, 2006,
eBay motors sold its 2 millionth passenger vehicle
- PayPal has 114
million registered payments accounts and is accepted by millions of
merchants worldwide, on and off eBay
- $9 billion in
transactions were made through PayPal during the 2nd quarter of 2006
- Windows XP is the
most popular operating system (see Table 5). The windows family
counts for nearly 90%” of the OS used, including XP, 2000, Win09,
WinNT, and 2003. Mac OS platforms hold 3.8% and Linux holds 3.5%
Sources:
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