Resources of the Week: Internet and Social Networking Stats
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
How many people use the Internet — in China? How many people are using Twitter? What are the demographics of Facebook users? What percentage of folks have high speed Internet access at home? Find the answers to all of these questions and many, many more at the following websites:
+ ClickZ Stats (”News and expert advice for the digital marketer”)
“Trends & statistics: the Web’s richest source”
+ A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 (Jeremiah Owyang, analyst, Forrester Research)
Stats on social networks are important, but I’m going to need your help in creating a community archive, can you submit stats as you find them? I’m often asked, “What are the usage numbers for X social network” and I’ve received considerable traffic on my very old post (way back in Jan 08) of MySpace and Facebook stats, even months later. Decision makers, press, media, and users are hungry for numbers, so I’ll start to aggregate them as I see them.
comScore is a global leader in measuring the digital world and the preferred source of digital marketing intelligence.
The company also publishes a blog that is statistics-rich.
+ Domain Counts & Internet Statistics (DomainTools)
Welcome to Domain Tools’s daily domain statistics page. Our stats show how many domains are currently registered and how many domains used to be registered but are now deleted.
+ E-Stats - Measuring the Electronic Economy (U.S. Census Bureau)
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Internet site devoted exclusively to ‘Measuring the Electronic Economy.’ This site features recent and upcoming releases, information on methodology, and background papers.
+ Facebook Press Room: Statistics
Facebook publishes its own set of frequently updated statistics about growth, “user engagement,” etc.
+ How big is the internet? (News.com Australia)
The internet has permeated everything from buying to banking to bonking. So how big is it?
+ Information and Communication Technology Statistics (International Telecommunications Union)
As a United Nations agency, the ITU has an obligation to identify, define, and produce statistics covering its sector - the telecommunication/ICT sector.
+ Nielsen Wire: Online and Mobile
Weblog that alerts you to the results of current Nielsen surveys and reports.
+ Pew Internet and American Life Project: Get the Latest Statistics
Browse a list of our latest reports, look through out infographic highlights, and check out our freqently updated trend data.
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