Every 60 seconds on the internet, these actions take place!
Let’s say that it takes you exactly one minute to read through this post. In that time, over 6,600 photos will be uploaded to Flickr, about 70 new domains will be registered, over 1,200 new ads will be created on Craigslist, and more. Here’s what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds.
Now keep in mind that the data below and the infographic above come from the Shanghai Web Designers team. We have done our best to confirm that the statistics provided line up with known data, but you should still take everything with a hefty serving of salt.
That disclaimer aside and without further ado, here’s what’s happening each minute:
- Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries
- 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr
- 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube, amounting to 25+ hours of content
- 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook
- 70 new domains are registered
- 168,000,000+ emails are sent
- 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on social networking site Twitter
- iPhone applications are downloaded more than 13,000 times
- 20,000 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform Tumblr
- Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1,700 times
- Popular blogging platform WordPress is downloaded more than 50 times
- WordPress Plugins are downloaded more than 125 times
- 100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn
- 40 new questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com
- 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
- 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content
- 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com
- 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
- 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users
- 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
- 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company
Impressive? Scary? Overwhelming? We’re not sure. But we do know that a lot happened in the few moments it took to look at this blog post — so you better rush to catch up.
The surprising thing for me among the facts here is that Firefox is downloaded 1700 times in a minute. Its no wonder that its fast becoming the most popular browser in the market.
There are around 6 billion people in the world. It is not amazing that a lot of things happening in just one minute. As the time goes on, more and more people will be stick in the internet. The internet really changes the world.
I didn’t knew that so many things happen in a minute on the internet. Things move so fast!
wow 70 domain names a minute! I wonder how many will use the new extension for brands like .nike or .apple?
Wonder how much spam gets sent in a minute?
this is actually fascinating information! the chart is well-designed, too.
It forgot to mention just how many naked pictures are downloaded. That’s like trying to sell a car without the motor…
Around 305071 according to one network: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en
Yeah I wonder how many porn movies are watched in a 60 second period!