- The internet is commencing its middle age. Researches indicate that the internet is consisted of over a whopping amount of 47 billion websites. The internet has the record of its first website created from twenty-eight years ago. Other critical statistics indicate that a large proportion of the internet is composed of adult content websites containing pornographic content. Shutting down such pornographic sites will nearly lead to the entire shutdown of the internet.
- Presently, there are over 3.58 billion users of the internet, globally. This figure nearly accounts for half of the global population. And amongst half of the internet users are situated in the Asian continent.
- It is quite interesting to know the difference in figures between media collection from television and the internet. Statistical facts confirm that around 1.59 billion houses exist with television sets while an excess of 2 billion has access to the internet via smartphones.
- Each year, approximately 269 billion amount of emails are sent through the World Wide Web. But among these large figures of emails sent, a substantial amount of emails are regarded as spam. Statistically speaking, over 86 percent of emails are considered spam through spam filters.
- With a large amount of selfie obsession rocking humanity, a tremendous amount of photos are taken and shared via the internet. Records confirm that a minimum of 1 trillion photos is taken each year and uploaded on various social media platforms.
- Did you know that YouTube has a record-breaking amount of users and subscribers? Eye-opening figures of over a billion users of YouTube exist. Amongst which, such figure nearly accounts for one-third of the entire internet users. YouTube confirms through its records that its users view over 6 billion hours of video every month. Ridiculous right?
- Regarding online bandwidth consumption, YouTube takes up around 18 percent of entire online bandwidth. Netflix, on the other hand, consumes over 36 percent of online bandwidth.
- Did you know that Facebook as a large user base of 1.86 billion users? If you were, to sum up, these users and accumulate them in a country, Facebook would become the most populous nation in the world. Research confirms that a typical person tends to spend a minimum of fifty minutes a day on social media platforms, all owned by Facebook.
- Among the 90 billion app downloads a year, the most frequently used applications by a vast majority of the population are Facebook and Google.
- However, all the information we know about the internet is a mere 4 percent of its total capabilities. The internet has a dark web which cannot be accessed through regular search engines and is a hub for all illegal activities including the sale of drugs, weapons, etc. most which are not for the faint-hearted.
