This is Day 12 in the 30 Day Blogging Challenge. You can read Day 11’s post here.
Today I’ve decided to have a shot at an infographic. This is inspired by a post from the Pridham Group, Website Design – How Far We’ve Come.
7 Random Facts About the World Wide Web, the text version
1. Number of websites
- 1991 – 1
- 1995 – 257,601
- 2005 – 64, 780, 617
- 2015 – 1, 207, 018, 000 and counting…
(source: Total Number of Websites, Internet Live Stats)
2. Most visited sites
- YouTube
(source: The top 500 sites on the web, Alexa)
3. The Deep Web
An estimated 550bn web documents are hidden from search engines.
(source: How big is the Invisible Web?, About Tech)
4. Mosaic browser
Mosaic browser was the first to display text and images on the same page in 1993.
(source: April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity, Wired)
5. The Mobile Web
35% of organic searches come from mobile devices.
(source: Majority of Search Traffic Will Soon Be Mobile, Brightedge)
6. E-commerce
UK consumers spend nearly £2,000 per head online.
(source: UK is world’s e-commerce leader, Payments Cards and Mobile)
7. Most Searched Terms 2014 (Global)
- Robin Williams
- World Cup
- Ebola
- Malaysia Airlines
- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
(source: These Were The Top 10 Most Popular Searches On Google In 2014, TechCrunch)
Damian Donovan says
February 20, 2015 at 5:55 pmThank you so much for the great article. I’ll be waiting for more of your new ideas. Keep it up!
Isabel Ortman says
March 23, 2016 at 3:54 pmInvaluable article . I learned a lot from the points ! Does anyone know if I can acquire a template a form version to fill out ?
Claire Brotherton says
March 25, 2016 at 3:56 pmHi Isabel, thanks for commenting.
Do you mean a template for creating an infographic? Canva have some and you can also use Piktochart.