Internet Usages Reaches Over 1 Bil

by Nathaniel Ed on January 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am EDT - 985 views

In the month of December, over one billion individual users were served worldwide. 41.3% were from the Asia-Pacific region, according to comScore, and internet traffic measurement firm.

Second place went to Europe with 28.0 percent, then North America with 18.4 percent. Latin America made up 7.4 percent, and the Middle East/Africa region made up 4.8 percent.

The statistics of actual users are: Asia/Pacific with about 416 million users, Europe had 283 million users, North America had 185 million users, Latin America had 75 million, and the Middle East/Africa had about 49 million unique users.

Country wise, China came in first with 17.8 percent, or about 180 million users,  then the U.S.A. with 16.2 percent, or about 163 million users, and Japan came in third with 6 percent, or about 63 million users.

Also included in the report were the top sites on the internet. The top internet site was Google, with 77 percent of the world’s internet users visting it, or about 778 million users. Microsoft’s network of sites came in second with 62.4 percent of the world’s users visiting it, or about 647 million unique visitors. Yahoo came in third with 55.8 percent of the world’s users visiting it, or about 562 million users. Fourth went to AOL with 273 million users, and Wikipedia a close fifth with 272, 978, 000, and each sharing about 27.1 percent.  Other websites that made the list (in order) were eBay, Facebook, Amazon, CBS, Fox, Ask.com, Apple, Tencent, Baidu.com, and Adobe.

Facebook led the competition for social networking websites, with 222 million users.

Sources: Internet News, Cnet, comScore    
The report can be seen here. Note that this was recorded with users over the age of 15, accessing from home. Image courtesy of icanhascheezeburgers.