The Web At A Glance

Did You Know?

• Iceland has the most internet users per capita
• Maximum hosts per capita are in the United States
• As much as 52% of customers go online before buying offline
• 63% of all purchases resulting from online search occur offline
• The Internet will influence nearly half of total retail sales in 2010
• Online ads lift offline retail purchases by 19%
• 57.1% of shoppers 18 or older say the Internet is their main source of information pre-purchase.

Domain Facts (As of end 2006)
Total	79,580,008
.com	60,168,695
.net	8,627,675
.org	5,408,739

Number of web sites online

Over 1 million active Web sites online

• typical Web page 5k
• typical Web image 12k
• median site has 300 pages
• 50 sites have over 30,000 pages
• top 1,000 sites account for 50% of all web traffic

Who’s Buying What

• men mostly buying computers, CDs and videos
• 12.6 million male shoppers research automobiles and buy auto parts
• 9.4 million men buy computers online
• number of women buyers up 80%
• 9.6 million women bought books, CDs and videos
• 6.9 million women buy clothing online
• 6.4 million women buy computers online

Top Online Activities

• 92% browse the Web
• 88% send/receive email
• 87% collect information about hobby or personal interest
• 81% collect product or service information
• 74% read the news
• 65% get business or work information
• 63% collect travel information
• 60% download images or photos
• 58% look up entertainment events
• 56% check the weather
• 11% doing online investing
• 3% blog

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