What Happened On The Web In 2009? Awesome DC.

Domain names

81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.

12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.

7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.

76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).

187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).

8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Images

4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).

2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.

30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.

12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).

924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).

182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).

82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).

39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).

81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

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