Some recent Facts about the Internet


  • The # 1 activity on the internet today is: consumers gathering purchase information  (US Dept of Commerce)

  • Affiliate Marketing is a $ 95 Billion Dollar industry that is expected to grow to over $ 230 Billion by 2008.  (Forrester Research)

  • Small to Medium size businesses that utilize Interactive websites have grown 46% faster than those who don't - (American City Business Journals)

  • Global internet e-commerce revenues since 1998 are over 444 Billion dollars - NUA

  • Cisco Systems Inc. is today the world's largest Internet commerce site, selling more than $ 32 million in products every day. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)

  • Online sales will top US $ 184 billion by 2004.  The Internet will influence approx. $ 500 billion in offline sales (Forrester Research)

  • Over 82 percent of college graduates will search for careers and employment information online - NUA

  • The number of women using the Internet worldwide will pass 96 million, or 45 percent of the world's Internet users in 2001- (Computer Economics)

  • 96% of users find web pages through friends, other pages and search engines - websites through magazines 64.3% (GVU)

  • 17,000 web site domains a day are being added to the Internet

  • An estimated 2.8 percent of the world's population is currently online (OCLC Research)

  • Estimated total world online users: 179 million, with a 100+ million in Canada & the USA (USCI)

  • About 60% of North American Internet users have used the Web to shop (USCI)

  • 85% of Fortune 500 companies now list their Internet Address in their advertising.

  • 500 million users projected to be online for 2004 (USCI)

  • Currently, the most visited web sites on the Web are: Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN  

  
     
 
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