STATISTICS OF THE NUMBER OF THE INTERNET USERS

Numbers of Internet Users

3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

000,000,000

Internet Users

This diagram above shows the statistics of internet users in the world in 2014. The diagram above reveals that the numbers of the web users is still growing in the world. The first billion was appear in year 2005 and the second billion is in year 2010. Internet users will be increase more than three billion and getting more and more.

Internet Penetration By Region

North America Africa South Asia East Asia

Central America Western Europe Central Asia Southeast Asia

South America Middle East Central & Eatern Europe Oceania

The diagram above shows that the internet penetration by region in 2014. The diagram above shows that the highest percentage of the internet penetration by region is the North America is 81%. Then is Western Europe that have 78%, and Oceania have 63%. Next, is Central and Eastern Europe have 54%. In opposite, South Asia and Africa have the lowest percentage of internet penetration by region in the world.

ACTIVE USERS BY SOCIAL NETWORKING

Million

Facebook QQ Whatsapp Google+ Wechat Linkedin Twitter Tumblr Weibo 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400

The bar chart above shows that Facebook is the most popular social networking websites in the year 2014. Because you can share everything on your timeline, you can share information and let others know how are you in the current. Next, QQ is 2nd popular social networking website, it is very popular in China, a lot of Chinese use this social application. Whatsapp is most well-known application in the mobile area, people use it to communicate, they can share their photos to others too.

AGE OF THE INTERNET USERS

15-55 56+

Most of the internet users are age 15 to 55, mostly they are the teenagers. Teenagers use internet to communicate with their friends and siblings. Besides that, they also use for play video games. For their studies, they will use internet to use as a search engine to get information to increases their knowledge. In average of the age 35-55, they will use internet for online paying payments, or watch dramas.

This picture above shows us that the comparison of the total websites in 2002 to 2012. In year 2002, there was only 3 million websites in the world, at that time it is consider there are so many websites. After 10 years, in 2012, the numbers of the total websites in this world hava increased until 555 million. Within this 10 years time, it have increased 552 million websites. This situation will continue growing by the following year.

This picture above compare the speeds of the internet in 2002 until 2012. In year 2002, we use dial-up to connect to the internet, therefore, the speed is very slow. It took few minutes to download a file. But nowdays, we use streamyx and Unifi, the speed has changed become faster, download a file it takes few seconds. Besides that, page loading time have changed a lot from few minutes then now become few seconds.The latest internet for mobile is 4G, it is the fastest speed for the mobile. Even the bad weather does not influence the speed of the internet.

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