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Internet statistics

So how big is the web? There are over 4.1 billion pages currently on the web with 85% of them U.S.-based. In October 1999, a “mere” 755 million pages were counted. It’s safe to say the Net has experienced a major growth spurt.        Source:Cyveillance

20 million 16- to 22-year-olds account for $14.7 billion in online sales. Source:Forrester Research

84% of 16- to 22-year-old shoppers use a parent’s credit card when buying online.  Source:Forrester Research

80% of U.S. surfers polled in April 2005 had made an online purchase in the last 90 days. In April 1998, it was 47%. Clearly, e-commerce continues to be the road more traveled.  Source:Greenfield Online.

650 thousand new jobs were created last year as part of the Net content and infrastructure industries. A total of 2.5 million are employed--more than in the insurance, communications, and public utilities industries combined. This, even after the dotcom failures of last year. Source:University of Texas-Austin

96 million Americans are active Net users; they surf and e-mail regularly. That’s a 33% increase over last year’s estimates. Meanwhile, 135 million people--almost one-half the U.S. population enjoy Net access. Source:CyberDialog

41% have met a new friend online...66% are students...

76% agree that e-mail has put them in better touch with friends and family.

11 is the average number of characters in a domain name.

98% is the approximate number of words in the Webster’s Dictionary that have been registered as domain names, according to a recent edition of The Internet Index.

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