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Internet Statistics

Internet Usage

As of December 2007, About 71.1% percent of the United States are Internet users at home. Worldwide about 20% are Internet users. But that said, all of the Americas (North, South, Central and Carribean) only make up 27.6% of Internet traffic in the world with North America alone making up 18% of Internet traffic in the world. Bear in mind that all of the Americas (North, South, Central, Carribbean) make up only 13.7% of the world population. (see http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm)

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Sites and Domains

Currently there are over 75,225,653 registered .com domain names. That, in theory, is how many people you are competing with to have view your site instead of others.

Search Engines

Top U.S. search engines as of September 2007 were

Full details at hhttp://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627654

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Top Sites and Parent Companies

Top parent companies for December 2007 (a parent company may have multiple domains):

See http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628244 for additional information.

Browsers and Browser Capabilities

If we used w3schools.com as a measure, then as of March 2008 about 37% of Internet users use Firefox, 52% use Internet Explorer, and the rest use other browsers.

Global Internet Statistics by Language (native language)

As of November 2007, the top languages on the Internet were: English (30.1%), Chinese (14.7%), Spanish (9%), Japanese (6.9%), and French (5.1%):

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