Infographic: The Web In 60 Seconds

[Guest]

How many ways are there to illustrate just how large the Internet really is?

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[sliem]

Among those, 20% is spam, 10% is virus, 10% is about Justin Bieber, 10% is torrent/pirate and 30% is porn.

 

[Thunderfox]

It's a shame so many of those 2.1 billion can't find anything better to do with the internet than social networking...

 

[Pyree]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Among those, 20% is spam, 10% is virus, 10% is about Justin Bieber, 10% is torrent/pirate and 30% is porn.[/citation]

Agree!

 

[Pallimud]

i still don't know why Tom's doesn't have a modern picture Zoom option. Sooo annoying and everyone complains. Just download fancybox for jQuery and run it!

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Among those, 20% is spam, 10% is virus, 10% is about Justin Bieber, 10% is torrent/pirate and 30% is porn.[/citation]

You underestimate porn and spam, I say both have about 70% of the web. The rest is media, mostly netflix and pirated movies.

 

[Thunderfox]

Don't forget Youtube. Less bandwidth than piracy, but more people doing it.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Among those....10% is about Justin Bieber...[/citation]

lol dude...

 

[belardo]

WE ARE BORG!

 

[K-zon]

Didnt there used to be more URLS, or are they just that of condensed sites into one???, Idk. But the Internet still seems to be fairly large thats for sure, right?

 

[jrharbort]

It needs more lolcats to be accurate.

 

[eddieroolz]

Just imagine how this graphic would be like in another 5 years. The pace of growth is tremendous.

 

[dalauder]

I don't know if it's actually growing that fast anymore. We went from not much on the web 8 years ago (just info websites mostly and a couple Xanga & MySpace pages) to everything having a website (unless you're in Guam like me). I mean it'll grow by a factor of 10 once more, but I don't think there's gonna be more URLs than people on the Internet. Once every person, business, club, or product has a webpage it has to slow down and I think the developed world is reaching that point.

Then again, there will be a ton of growth over the next decade from the undeveloped world as every business adds a webpage. Still...I don't think we'll get over 3 billion URLs in the next 8 years and I don't think it's growing at an exponential rate--just linear.

The more interesting info that wasn't included is bandwidth. I think 30% of that bandwidth is pirating, 50% is streaming media, and 25% is everything else. What quantity of data gets transferred in 60 seconds? My guess is about 50TB a minute--90% used up by 20 million people downloading or watching video at any given instant. I have no idea what the actual figure is, but I would like to see it more than social networking stats.

 

[xnem3s1sx]

FAIL. Resizing of image rendered it illegible. For the love of christ, Please just post it in full rez. I mean really. The entire freaking article is about the image, and you have to load 2 additional pages to see it in full rez..... which you can't read anyway.

 

[gm0n3y]

I personally have half a dozen URLs registered. Is that number counting all registered domains or only the ones actually being used?

Also, I'd put torrenting at closer to 20%.

 

[jgutz2006]

[citation][nom]Thunderfox[/nom]It's a shame so many of those 2.1 billion can't find anything better to do with the internet than social networking...[/citation]
Or post comments on random news articles

 

[doorspawn]

Perhaps this is the web according to the morally blinkered.
It looks nothing like the real web... unless porn, torrents and porn torrents are on the reverse side.