If you were to ask someone how big is the internet, they probably wouldn’t be able to guess its real size. Because, besides a multitude of web pages that we navigate through thanks to search engines, there is a whole world of web pages that are not indexed in these search engines, so they are “impossible” to find.
Actually, according to a web service that estimates the size of the Internet on a daily basis, its current size is at least 4.53 billion websites.
If we take into account that there are around 7.5 billion people living in the world, that means that there is one web page per every 1.65 people.
If we were to illustrate how “lively” internet is in any given moment, we would really have to make an effort and dig into it.
The Visual Capitalist company, which creates interesting graphs, tried to describe what happens online every 60 seconds in a single graph.
And what happens are 3.5 million searches on Google.
An incredible figure of 900,000 users log-in on Facebook, and 15,000 GIFs are sent via Facebook Messenger.
452,000 tweets are posted, 16 million SMS are sent, as well as 156 million emails.
120 people open a new LinkedIn profile.
In just one minute, 1.8 million snaps are created on Snapchat and 46.200 photos are posted on Instagram.
Whopping 4.1 million videos are watched on YouTube, and over 70,000 hours of Netflix programs.
In just one minute, as much as $ 751,522 is spent on online purchases, and 342,000 apps are downloaded from Google Play and App Store, writes Zimo.
