Here you are, a late christmas present from Pingdom has been delivered: “Internet 2011 in numbers” (in comparison with 2010). And – guess what? – Internet is still growing. The Internet users grew with 14% to 1.97 billion 2010. And have continued to grow with 6,6% to 2.1 billion in the end of 2011. In Europe the numbers of Internet users is status quo, though, unlike the growth in Asia where the users did grow with 12% from 825.1 million to 922.2 million users. Just China showed a growth of Internet penetration with 36.3% during 2011.
The most conspicuous is the growth of websites worldwide – from 255 to 555 million – a growth of amazing 117%! I wonder what did happen in question? Could it be due to the strong growth of social media? According to Pingdom, there are now 2.4 billion social networking accounts worldwide. Just Facebook did grow with 33% from 600 million users 2010 to fabulous +800 million. But I guess that’s not affecting the numbers of sites?
Please give me an explanation of the enormous growth of websites.
