Friday, September 11, 2009

Google Internet Stats

Google Internet Stats is a small site (with a UK focus) collecting statistics about the internet from a variety of sources. You can page through the different categories like technology, consumer trends, media consumption and so on, get random stats, search for stats, or submit your own statistic. Here are some bits from Google’s site:

• “There are 1.6 billion people online worldwide, representing nearly 24% of the world’s population.” (Internetworldstats.com, April 2009)
• “According to a study done by OTX, 33% of young people (12 - 24 year olds) globally (UK, US, Germany, India and Japan) are contactable at all times, even in their sleep.” (OTX Research, March 2009)
• “On the phenomenon of ’continuous partial attention’: over 25% of Internet users surveyed in the UK, FR, DE, IT, US, and Japan in October 2008 said they go onto the Internet at the same time as watching TV ’most of the time’.” (Ofcom, November 2008)

There’s also plenty of stats like “Users are 1.5 times more attentive when browsing YouTube than when watching TV.” – source: “Motorola (with Mindshare) and GM, partnered with YouTube, December 2008” – so perhaps this site serves as a bit of a self-promotion for Google.

Also see Google’s web authoring stats from 2005.

[Thanks TomHTML!]

Google Internet Stats by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (1)

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