How Big Is the Web & How Fast Is It Growing? There's no easy way to find out or explain the size of the web. After all, though there are a few governing bodies and consortia, there's no real central control system for the Internet. No one really knows with 100% certainty exactly how many websites exist, for example, or how many new websites are set up each day. However, a few organizations do make it their business to keep an eye on the domain names that make up the Internet as the web continues its rapid sprawl throughout the infinite expanses of cyberspace. We've gathered information from a few of these sources and created some handy graphics below to help put it all in perspective. Top image based on a photograph from iStockphoto user Petrovich9.
The Blog | Nifty Marketing | Local Search Marketing Outreach & Editors: 5 Ways To Make Editors Thankful Outreach & Editors: 5 Ways To Make Editors Thankful There are two types of outreachers. Those who understand how their emails are received and those who do not. The former enjoy greater success, while the latter bemoan less lousy response rates, time wastage and cranky editors. While it is true that editors have their nit [...] A new division for us: Meet NiftyLaw A new division for us: Meet NiftyLaw I’m not going to spend much time on this blog talking about it. 10 Random People’s Reactions To Google Local Carousel 10 Random People’s Reactions To Google Local Carousel Carousel Results in Local is the biggest change to Google’s local SERP’s since the introduction of map listings in organic search results. Local Search Directories for Attorneys Local Search Directories for Attorneys We put together a Spreadsheet of local directories where lawyers can list their practice for the Avvo conference today. Pubcon New Orleans 2013 Pictures
Internet in numbers: How many of us are there online? | Digital Life Plus Pingdome provides us every year with the most interesting numbers and statistics, concerning global internet use. This is the case for 2011 too and here are are the numbers of internet and the "connected" world in general. Internet users 2.1 billion – Internet users worldwide. 922.2 million – Internet users in Asia. 476.2 million – Internet users in Europe. 485 million – Number of Internet users in China, more than any other country in the world. 36.3% – Internet penetration in China. 591 million – Number of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide. One a more closer look, Pingdome gives us the numbers on how we use internet. There are 555 million websites, 300 million of which were created within the previous year. The most expensive domain name to date is social.com and has been sold for $2.6 million As far as social media is concerned, the numbers are equaly impressive: 800+ million – Number of users on Facebook by the end of 2011. 225 million – Number of Twitter accounts.
How To Get 100,000 Facebook Likes For Your Blog Fan Page Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written ten books. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and 40 Alternatives to College. You can follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. I wanted to have 100,000 Facebook fans for my blog. We have entered the “Choose Yourself” era. [See also: "Self-publishing your own book is the new business card"] Now, if you want to spread the truths of your brand, of your ideas, of your products, of your message, you have to create your own platform, you have to spread it across all media, and then you have to manage each medium differently. For each medium, you have to ask: why this medium? BUT, on Facebook, as opposed to any other medium (other than twitter) you pay ONCE and then forever after you can market to that Fan for free. So here’s what I did. It basically took about 30 days to get 100,000 fans. Using this approach got me to the first 50,000 Fans.
Web Server Survey In the April 2014 survey we received responses from 958,919,789 sites — 39 million more than last month. Microsoft made the largest gain this month, with nearly 31 million additional sites boosting its market share by 1.9 percentage points. IIS is now used by a third of the world's websites. More than 70% of this month's new IIS-powered websites are hosted in the US, followed by 22% in China. Many of the new IIS sites hosted by Nobis Technology Group feature similar content and form part of a Chinese link farm. In terms of active sites, Apache remains in a much stronger position with a 52% share of the market, compared with Microsoft's 11%. Apache also fares well amongst the million busiest sites, where there is intrinsically very little interference from domain holding pages, link farms and other web spam. The latest version of Apache (2.4.9) was released on March 17. The stable branch of nginx was updated twice during March. Active sites Other (more...)
Social Media Marketing Mistake Every Small Business Makes You constantly extend your virtual handshake in every possible direction... yet no one embraces it. Very few people follow, connect, or "like" you. Why? This is the fourth in my series where I choose a topic, pick someone smarter than me (finding smarter people is turning out to be way easier than my ego prefers), and we trade emails. This time I talked to Shama Kabani, the founder and CEO of The Marketing Zen Group and the author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing. Shama's premise: Most social media marketing efforts fail because, at a fundamental level, people don't use social media to connect with businesses--or even with each other. Jeff: You realize this premise is completely opposite from what most people think? Shama: And that's why most businesses get poor results. Jeff: You're going to have to explain that. Shama: I did my graduate thesis on Twitter back when it only had a few thousand users. While I was doing the research I had this light bulb moment. Jeff: I get that. 1. 2.
Statistics | The Number Resource Organization NRO Extended Allocation and Assignment Reports The file delegated-extended contains a daily updated report of the distribution of Internet number resources. The resources reported are: IPv4 address ranges (IPv4)IPv6 address ranges (IPv6)Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) These reports are produced as part of a joint Regional Internet Registry (RIR) project to provide consistent and accessible Internet number resource statistics to the global community. For a detailed description of the file and interpretation of this content, please download the Readme file Internet Number Status Reports The Internet Number Resource Status Reports are updated quarterly. Regional Internet Registries Statistics Information Statistics information and IP address space allocation and assignments by Region
Best Practices – Google Account Setup for Clients for Web Developers and Agencies | HelpSpa In the first article in this two-part series I talked about best practices for setting up Google Accounts for personal use and for business use. In this second part I am going to discuss best practices for developers and agencies for setting up and managing Google Accounts for their clients. Before you read this article, you may find it helpful to review the first article as this article continues with example scenarios used in the first one. When we last left John Doe, he had a Google Account for his two blogs — his personal use, (johndoe@gmail.com) and a second Google Account for his company (johnsmadeupcompany@gmail.com)– for business use. Scenario III – Google Accounts and Google Product Setup for Clients (Scenario I and II are in the first article) So all is well and then finally John gets a client! If John works with a very large company, that has multiple web properties, then it naturally makes sense that each web property has it’s own Google Account. Take-Home Messages: 1. 2. 3.
Internet 2010 in numbers What happened with the Internet in 2010? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. Prepare for a good kind of information overload. Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010.294 billion – Average number of email messages per day.1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide.480 million – New email users since the year before.89.1% – The share of emails that were spam.262 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 89% are spam).2.9 billion – The number of email accounts worldwide.25% – Share of email accounts that are corporate. Websites 255 million – The number of websites as of December 2010.21.4 million – Added websites in 2010. Web servers Domain names Internet users Social media Web browsers Videos Images Data sources and notes: Spam percentage from MessageLabs (PDF).
Speed Summary | Wired Feb 2011 Cover Story on Social Commerce So next month’s (Feb 2011) Wired magazine (UK edition) has just dropped, with a cover story on social commerce, by editor David Rowan and editorial assistant Tom Cheshire. The cover text- “What are you selling? Big Brands want to cash in on your Facebook friends: Ecommerce is over – Long live social commerce” gives you a flavor of what to expect. The article is a well-written executive briefing of the social commerce space, peppered with smart quotes and buzz-worthy data-points (summarised below); the sort of content agencies will want to hand out to clients, entrepreneurs to VCs and marketers to budget holders. We recommend getting your hands on a copy; currently it’s languishing in dead tree media only – no iPad or web yet. Speed Summary: Social Commerce, building “a social layer on top of online commerce”, “turning products into conversations”, is attracting big funding, big buzz and generating big revenue. Social Commerce Factoids Social Commerce Smart Quotes image: @dan_webster (yfrog)
Internet 2009 in numbers What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. Enjoy! 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). Websites 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.47 million – Added websites in 2009. Web servers 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.-22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.-72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009. Domain names Internet users Social media Images Videos Web browsers