Internet Stats Today

Civets are six midsize economic powers — Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South -Africa — that are hailed as the new stars of the emerging markets.

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After several consecutive years of modest but consistent growth, broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010. Two-thirds of American adults (66%) currently use a high-speed internet connection at home, a figure that is not statistically different from what The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found at a similar point in 2009, when 63% [...]

The Influence Project is designed to answer a simple question: Who are the most influential people online right now? According to the Fast Company, influence is not only about having the most friends or followers. Real influence is about being able to affect the behavior of those you interact with, to get others in your [...]

July 20, 2010 marks the Bicentennial anniversary of Colombia’s Independence from Spain. For this occasion it is very fitting to show the  great advance of the Internet in Colombia. The following graph from the Colombia NAP shows Monthly Traffic Peaks in Mbps for 2006-2010: Currently the estimated number of Internet users in Colombia is 21,529,415 for December 31, 2009, according [...]

The CNNIC reported that the online population in China reached 420 million in June, 2010. That is 36 million more than last December, and confirms that China is the nation with the largest online population in the world. Read more details at Internet World Stats.

Internet World Stats has published new Internet indicators for Central America.  The 2010 population estimate for the region is 154,298,120 and the estimated Internet users are 38,012,400 with a penetration rate of 24.6%. Mexico alone, has 30,600,000 million internet users, according to AMIPSI, the Mexican Internet Association.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) has finally approved the delegation of the first set of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). This means that soon we will see domain names in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Indian languages. This measure has been taken in order to make Internet more attractive [...]

China is by far the largest Internet country with 384 million Internet users, and 346 million broadband subscribers. These are official numbers from the CNNIT for December 31, 2009.  The IWS website has traditionally published all the information regarding each country in just one web page.  As of today, the individual detailed country pages will [...]

In January 2010 the Netcraft server survey received responses from 206,741,990 sites. The market share for all the major web servers has increased. Apache gained approximately 3M hostnames compared to the December 2009 survey, bringing their total to 111.3M. In second place comes Microsoft with a 600k increase. nginx lost hostnames this month but grew [...]