Do you think you could go a whole day without using the internet?
According to Worldometer, there are approximately 8.2 billion people in the world, with 5.45 billion of them active Internet users. Australians spend around 40 hours each week online, the length of an average work week. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of internet users in Australia increased by 265 thousand (+1.2 percent) and the number of internet users in Australia reached 22.31 million in January 2024, meaning that 88% of Australians are active Internet users. By 2025, it’s expected it will reach 23.36 million users!
Internet use is projected to continue to rise as more of us seek convenience in our everyday lives. Thanks to the internet, many of us were easily able to work remotely and stay connected with our loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fun Internet Facts
- Internet users spend an average of 6 hours and 42 minutes online every day
- Every day, there are around 770,000 new Internet users
- Depending on the approach taken to “weigh” the Internet, the entire Internet weighs somewhere between 0.000006 grams (a grain of sand weighs roughly 10x more at 0.000050 grams), and 60 grams (a strawberry)
- Emailing is the most common online activity, followed by instant messaging, and social networking
- Google, YouTube Facebook, Wikipedia and Instagram are the most popular websites globally
- If the Internet goes down for a day, it is projected that around a emails and 3 billion Google searches will be delayed
- It takes around 2 billion electrons to produce a single email
- Currently, more than 8.7 billion machines are connected to the Internet
- Every minute, 500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube globally
- Every year, more than $1 billion is generated through online dating
- “Insurance” is the most expensive Google AdWords keyword with a cost per click (CPC) of roughly $54.91
- 16 seconds is the world record for the quickest time to log into a Gmail account
- The Internet took just 5 years to reach 50 million users
- Internet bots are responsible for 52% of online traffic
- Every day, 16–20% of Google searches have never been Googled before
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