The State of the Web in Figures

Designer Jesse Thomas has compiled a series of stats about the Internet into this video.

Many of them are amusing, some are surprising and others quite frankly frightening.  To give you a few examples, last year there were around 1.73 billion Internet users, 81% of all e-mail traffic was spam and that it takes 30 000 servers to power Facebook's 350 million accounts.  Other facts of note include the 82% of American users who watch video online and that 148 000 new infections every day contribute to ever larger networks of zombie computers used for botnets and other attacks.

Here are the figures in full:



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