2010 Internet Stats from Pingdom

[Renegade]

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

Web servers

    * 39.1% – Growth in the number of Apache websites in 2010.
    * 15.3% – Growth in the number of IIS websites in 2010.
    * 4.1% – Growth in the number of nginx websites in 2010.
    * 5.8% – Growth in the number of Google GWS websites in 2010.
    * 55.7% – Growth in the number of Lighttpd websites in 2010.

Internet users

    * 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).
    * 14% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
    * 825.1 million – Internet users in Asia.
    * 475.1 million – Internet users in Europe.
    * 266.2 million – Internet users in North America.
    * 204.7 million – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
    * 110.9 million – Internet users in Africa.
    * 63.2 million – Internet users in the Middle East.
    * 21.3 million – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Lots more stats there.

[KynloStephen66515]

  * 1.97 billion – Internet users worldwide (June 2010).

Is that 1.97billion connected households and businesses?  Surely they cant know how many people use each connection.

[Renegade]

They're guesstimating. But it's probably close enough.

[KynloStephen66515]

They're guesstimating. But it's probably close enough.

Well, surveys do say 84.23478% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[Renegade]

They're guesstimating. But it's probably close enough.

Well, surveys do say 84.23478% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

You're rounding, aren't you?

[KynloStephen66515]

They're guesstimating. But it's probably close enough.

Well, surveys do say 84.23478% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

You're rounding, aren't you?

Yep

Studies show that 92.589% of people who give statistics round to the nearest 23748749894th decimal place.