In honor of our forthcoming second edition of the Guide to using Social Media in Business, we’ve decided to share some statistics that didn’t make it into the update:
We all know websites are the cornerstone of any integrated business. But did you know that:
•There were 255 million websites at end of 2010
•21.4 million websites wereadded in 2010
•16.91 billion web pages exist
•There are 2 billion Internet users worldwide
•There are 273 million Internet users in the U.S.
•1.1 billion Web searches per month in U.S.
•1.7 billion terabytes of information created and stored on Web each year
One social site that didn’t make it into the guide but really should have: Are you familiar with StumbleUpon?
•2.2 million web pages added every month
•51 pages added every minute
•50.34% of U.S. social media traffic driven through StumbleUpon
•Average session on StumbleUpon is 69 minutes
Can you believe this?
•186 online videos average Internet user in U.S. watches per month
•2,232 online videos average Internet user in U.S. watches annually
•53% of employees research potential job candidates on social networks
•17% of time spent online devoted to a social network
•20% of couples now meet online
•20% of divorces are blamed on Facebook
•37 million people watched VW’s Super Bowl Darth Vader ad on YouTube
•Groupon will reach $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history
•1.5 million real farmers, compared with 80 million Farmville farmers
•90% of consumers trust peer recommendations; 14% trust ads
•Babies in Egypt have been named Facebook
•If users were citizens, Facebook would be the 3rd largest country in the world behind China and India. Combined with Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube they would be the largest country in the world. Yet, Facebook, and Twitter are technically not allowed in China so they do not count any users from the world’s most populous country, and both YouTube and LinkedIn users have had services cut off now and again.
• Google+ has 26 million users, 72% of which are are male
•Most users will click shared content within the first 2 minutes. If each page view generated a second of attention we would see 90 years of attention daily