99.3 trillion spam emails a year

Here are a few of the most important web and search engine figures of 2010 thanks to Search Engine Journal

• There are now an estimated 255 million websites on the web. 21.4 million of these were added in 2010 alone.
• Domain name purchases increased by 7%. There are now 202 million top-level domains, of which 88.8 million are .com.
• Web servers saw growth across the board, including Google’s GWS sites, which saw 5.8% growth in 2010. More significantly, Apache servers increased by 39.1% while Lighttpd grew by 55.7%.
• Total internet use increased by 14%, to 1.97 billion internet users around the world. The leaders are Asia (825.1 million) and Europe (475.1 million), with North America coming in third (266.2 million).
• Social media saw an especially significant boom in all sectors. There are currently 152 million blogs around the world,100 million new Twitter accounts from 2010 alone, 600 million people on Facebook (including 250 million new users), and a greater portion of these are coming from outside the U.S. (70%of Facebook users are now non-U.S. accounts).
• Web communication has gone hyper, with 25 billion tweets being sent, alongside 107 trillion emails. Of course, 89.1% of those emails (99.3 trillion) were spam messages.
• Users watched 730 billion YouTube videos last year, with plenty of selections to choose from, as YouTube saw 18 million hours of new videos uploaded.

All facts and figures come from Royal Pingdom and associated groups

In other news:

• WebProNews has a feature article on the benefits of a relevant Twitter audience.
• Experian Hitwise has just released their December report which shows that Google overwhelmingly accounts for most of the searches conducted on the web in the US. 69.97% to be exact with the nearest competitor, Bing, coming in at only 25.77%. But while Google is still the chosen search engine of the masses, it’s not the most accurate. According to Experian’s numbers, 81% of the searches on Bing and Yahoo! Search resulted in a trip to a web address. Google only showed a 65% success rate. Thanks to Marketing Pilgrim