Date:Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:36:34 -0600
From:Jose Ignacio LOPEZ <[email protected]>

Here are a few interesting Internet statistics that I have compiled in the last few weeks:

- Number of Internet users by end 1999: 196 million (10% in developing nations

-DCs, 44% in the US)

- Expected number of Net users by 2003: 505 million (16% in DCs, 35% in the US).

- Number of Web pages on the Net (1999): 800 million (or 4 pages per Net user!)

- Number of Web sites June 1999: 5 million

- E-commerce spending in 1998: 50 billion (2% in DCs, 74% in th US) bought by 1.2 million customers

- Expected e-commerce spending by 2003: 1.5 trillion (6% in DCs, 54% in the US)

- Most popular products bought on line: books, software, music, travel, hardware, clothes and electronics

- Expected e-commerce sales for this Christmas: 9.5 billion

- Online add spending in 1999: 2.8 billion

- Most popular "search" site: Yahoo with 44% of all net searches

- Most popular Web server software: Apache (55%)

- 70% of all Net traffic goes to less than 4,500 sites

- Most popular browsing themes in the US: Entertainment (72%) and news (52%)

Sources: IDC, Netcraft, NEC Research Institute, ALexa, Network Solutions among others.

Cheers, Raul

Jose Ignacio LOPEZ <[email protected]>

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