Archives for 2011
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Facebook is the leading internet domain in page views. In september 2011, Facebook.com generated 11% of all the page views in the United States, followed by Craigslist.org (5%), Google.com (5%), Yahoo.com (4%) and Youtube.com [...] |
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Webmail continues to be the dominant platform for email use. 44% of emails are read on webmail platforms such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Desktop is still big. Desktop comes after webmail with a [...] |
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Linkedin is the first professional network on the internet. As of November 3, 2011, Linkedin has 135 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Most of Linkedin’s members are outside the United States. [...] |
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Most people want news with no political views. The majority of people in the US (63%) say they prefer news sources with no particular political point of view, while 29% say they prefer news [...] |
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Groupon’s web traffic – like its stock price – has been on a steadily decline over the past several months. In June 2011, Groupon.com’s traffic peaked at 33.7 million unique visitors and 66.3 million [...] |
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Internet advertising is growing. $72.8 billion were spent globally in online advertising in 2011, against $63.9 billion in 2010, which represents a 14% growth year-on-year. Paid search is the biggest segment. 49% of online [...] |
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The number of downloads in the Apple App Store and the Android Market has quadrupled over the last 12 months. 2.6 billion mobile applications were downloaded worldwide in October 2011 against 600 billion in [...] |
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Social networking is big in Europe. In October 2011, 92.7% of the European internet users visited a social network. The penetration rate is slightly higher in most countries in Western Europe. Spain comes first [...] |
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Linkedin users tend to be older and more educated than Facebook and Twitter users. Only 30% of Linkedin users are under 34, while 38% are aged 35-49 and 32% are over 50 years old. [...] |
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Facebook users are confused with privacy settings. 68% of Facebook users claim they don’t understand Facebook privacy controls. Social network users expect simpler private sharing options. 61% of Facebook users state they would share [...] |