The team at Hostingclues has created an exhaustive snapshot of the state of the Internet today. It contains over a hundred facts and statistics to create an impressive Infographic. For anyone using the Internet, it makes for fascinating reading!

Key numbers

Some key data include:

• Out of the 7.77 billion people in the world, around 4.54 billion have an active internet connection. This means around 58.4% of the world population has access to the internet.
• The US has 293 million internet users.
• In the US, almost all age demographics have internet access. However, the younger generation spends more time online.
• 4.18 billion users access the internet from the mobile.
• 61% of all Google searches are from a mobile device.
• 92.07% of all search engine activity is on Google Search. However, 50.33% of all Google searches result in zero clicks.
• In 2019, Google generated a revenue of $160.4 billion. $134.81 billion of which comes from Google ads.
• Every second, there are over 40,000 search queries on Google.
• The average click-through-rate of the first position on Google search is 19.3%.
• US shoppers spent over $5 billion online during 2017’s Black Friday sales.
• Over 2.05 billion people shop online.
• 47% of all global retail sales are made on the online market.
• Only 20% of consumers were not influenced by ads when making a purchase decision.
• Over 3.8 billion users have an active social media account.
• People spend around 2 hours and 24 minutes on average on social media or messaging applications.
• The most popular social media and messaging platform is Facebook with 2,449,000 users. YouTube is second, with 2,000,000 users.

Blog statistics

• 77% of internet users read blogs.
• 43% of readers skim through blog posts.
• On average, people spend around 37 seconds reading a blog post.
• 36% of readers prefer list-based headlines.
• Blogs with an odd number of listicle headlines outperform the ones with an even number of headlines by 20%.
• Companies that blog get 97% more links to their website.
• Titles that have 6-13 words attract the highest and most consistent amount of traffic.
• For 72% of online marketers, content creation is the most effective SEO tactic.
• If your headline has a hyphen or colon, your click-through-rate increases by 9%.
• 62.96% of readers have said blogs with multiple writers are more credible.
• The average blog post is 1151 words.
• Longer in-depth blog posts generate 9 times more success in lead generation compared to shorter ones.
• 66% of marketers use blogging in their social media content in 2017.
• Articles with images or graphics get 94% more views.
• Writing content is the most outsourced marketing activity.

Infographic

Check out the infographic below and visit the original article on Hostingclues for more (including a text-based version of the Infographic)!

100+ Statistics And Facts of The Internet

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