The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000
It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time. Ten years ago we were in the era of the dot-com boom (and bust), the Web was strictly 1.0, and...
View ArticleThe countries Facebook has left to conquer
In most countries today, Facebook is either the most popular, or second or third most popular website. The social network has reached such widespread popularity that it can these days only really be...
View ArticleFirefox infographic – The road leading up to Firefox 4
As you no doubt have noticed by now, Mozilla launched Firefox 4 this week. It was downloaded 7.1 million times in the first 24 hours, and is now up to 15 million downloads and counting. We figured a...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome and South America, a love story
In just a couple of years, Google Chrome has firmly established itself as a web browser to be reckoned with. Where once you spoke of Internet Explorer and Firefox as the two big ones, these days the...
View ArticleFacebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004
At the recent F8 conference Facebook revealed that they now have 800 million active users. Europe, with Russia included, has a population of 727 million. We now have a social network that is so large...
View ArticleSocial network popularity around the world in 2011
Online social networks are everywhere these days, a truly global phenomenon. But where are the different social networks having the most success in terms of popularity? That is what we’ll try to...
View ArticleVisualizing Internet penetration per country 1991-2010 (animation)
With an estimated 2 billion Internet users as of March 2011, about a third of the world’s population is online. That still leaves almost 5 billion people around the world that are not connected. In...
View ArticleMobile share of web traffic in Asia has tripled since 2010
In just over two years, the share of web traffic in Asia that comes from mobile devices has almost tripled. In fact, in some countries, close to half of all web traffic comes from mobile devices....
View ArticleTop 10 Facebook winners and losers (countries)
The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall. But if we look at some of the latest figures available, it would seem...
View ArticleBroadband prices vary extremely across the world
Have you ever felt that the price of your broadband is too high? We hear you. But instead of complaining, we thought we should find out where in the world we had to move to get the cheapest broadband...
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