This Web2.0 space is bursting with growth and it’s only ever increasing. The numbers below highlight to all businesses how much opportunity is out there on the web right now! Stop crying and start working harder in this space! 2009 for small business owners has never been so great!
Hold onto your hats and fasten your seat belts!
Internet
1,596,270,108 people are actively using the internet (Internet Usage and World Population Statistics are for March 31, 2009)
1 trillion URL’s are indexed on Google – Source
Here is how Google grew in terms of number of indexed URLs :
1998 : 26,000,000 (26 million web pages)
2000 : 1,000,000,000 (1 Billion web pages)
2008 : 1,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion web pages)
Google has done 2 billion searches a day, or about 700 billion a year Source
Top 100 google hot trends - http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Blogs
133,000,000 - is the number of blogs Technorati has indexed since 2002
A new blog is created every second, totalling 80,000 new blogs every day.
900,000 blog posts are created daily
Blogging grew 68% in 2008
346 million people worldwide read blogs
77% of active web users read blogs
The average blogger in the US:
- 51% male
- Aged 35+ (58%)
- Aged 18-34 (42%)
- College educated, 74% Source
Number of tweets as of right now! 
- 1,691,543, 819 - ( click here for an up to the minute count)
At the start of 2008 Twitter had only around 500,000 monthly visitors
Growth rate for Twitter was 752%, for a total of 4.43 million unique visitors in December 2008 Source
Twitter.com is a top 500 site that reaches over 4.1 million U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a more educated, slightly more female than male, young adult audience. Quantcast, March
Twitter is receiving 8million unique visitors in the month of March 2009.Compete (via Nick) March 10
Melbourne’s top 100 twitter users
- More than 200 million active users
- More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
- More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college
- The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older
- More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day
- More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
- There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- Inside Facebook says: “the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled. Developers and marketers may want to think about how to serve this group of new users.” Inside Facebook, March
- “Women over 55 remain the fastest growing group, and growth among the teen and college-age set has been relatively paltry. In absolute numbers there are now even slightly more members between the ages of 45 and 65 than there are 13-to 17-year-olds.” Wired Magazine, March.
YouTube
You tube nears 5 billion views Source
Average internet users watch 2 YouTube videos a day
The average video length, according to comScore.com, was 2.7 minutes.
YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site.
One of the most watched videos on youtube in 2009 – set to break youtube records!
This illustrates how web clips are mixing with TV shows and bringing in a bigger audience.
Mobile usage
63 million on mobile internet daily
Significant growth in the numbers of people accessing the internet from their mobile phones vs. a year ago. The company says that today there are just over 63 million mobile web users in the US and 35 percent of them are online via their handset daily. Source.
I trust your mind had been sparking off like a new years eve fireworks show! Here are the numbers, now where are you seeing the opportunities within your own business?
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Wow! Those are all amazing stats Sam. It makes you realise how far we have come in even the last 10 years and makes you wonder how far it will all go. For business owners, NOW is the time to take advantage of these trends.
This is what I was looking for. Interesting stats. So what will make out of your business if you can get 0.5% of the stats mentioned as your audience?
Great research on awesome stats Sammy. These are the facts that will encourage those business owners hesitant to take on social media tools to think again, and hopefully get into it!! Luv your work
Whoa! Great job gathering those numbers. They are definitely something to think about… anyone who says social media is a fad or a phase obviously don’t understand the expanding power and potential it brings to those who wield it well! keep up the superb work, Sam.
-Lauren
Good stuff. Last month YouTube passed 6 billion…
Who needs tv…