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)
Thank you so much for the great article. I’ll be waiting for more of your new ideas. Keep it up!
Invaluable article . I learned a lot from the points ! Does anyone know if I can acquire a template a form version to fill out ?
Hi Isabel, thanks for commenting.
Do you mean a template for creating an infographic? Canva have some and you can also use Piktochart.