Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom

Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom

nice summary

sadly sometimes they never really reveal the source.. so its difficult to tell how trust worthy the 'stats' are..

but interesting few minutes

particularly:

Email

• 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
• 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
• 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
• 100 million – New email users since the year before.
• 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
• 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
• 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
• 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

more click on link above.