Thursday, October 29, 2009

Five Mind-Blowing Web Stats You Should Know

you can read its entity here, but I give you a summary here (below) - and please NOTE: Last 'Stat' is in its entity:

"Mind-Blowing Web Stat #1: 40,000-fold increase in the number of websites in 15 short years. If the number of approximately 5000 websites in 1994 is correct and that we are now part of some 200 million plus websites today,

Mind-Blowing Web Stat #2: Today, the blogosphere is doubling between once and twice a year and there are over one million blog posts daily.

Mind-Blowing Web Stat #3:
There have now been more than five billion tweets.

Mind-Blowing Web Stat #4: Google still owns the search market. Sources estimate that the search goliath receives about two billion queries per day. That said, I think I'm more impressed by InsideFacebook.com's estimates that the social network is adding 700,000 new users per day.

Mind-Blowing Web Stat # 5: Okay, this is as much of a predictive statement as a stat. For some time, I have periodically checked which sites are in the top ten, as task made much easier now with the likes of Alexa. What is amazing is that whether you look at the global top ten or US top ten websites, about half of the sites are five- to six-year-old companies (e.g. YouTube, Blogger, and Facebook). The implication is that we'll continue to see a pretty high-rate of churn amongst the top ten. What other industry do you know where so many in the top ten market share positions are companies that are younger than a first grader? Big names that may be top of the world today are being bombarded by the threat of new Internet start-ups every day. Twitter was born in 2006 and has already hit #13 on Alexa's top global list and #12 on its U.S. list. How long will it take to break into the top ten? The answer: not long at all. And this is what continues to make life interesting in the world wide web of disruptive change and unpredictable innovation."

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