South Korea retains Internet speed crown with 17.5 Mbps
May 2, 2012
In January, we reported that South Korea has the fastest average Internet connection speed in the world, a position it’s commanded for many...
Putting Facebook’s 900 million users into perspective (infographic)
April 25, 2012
As you may have heard, Facebook very recently passed 900 million active users . We think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s...
Almost 8 new Internet users added worldwide every second (infographic)
February 16, 2012
By some measures , more than 7 billion people now inhabit the world, and more than a third of us are on the...
Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
January 11, 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking...
Web pages are getting more bloated, and here’s why
November 21, 2011
Over the past year, web pages have on average become 25% bigger . We’re not talking about dimensions here, but download size. Based...
Windows 7 just became the most widely used desktop OS in the world
October 12, 2011
In October, Windows 7 usage has for the first time surpassed Windows XP usage globally according to statistics from StatCounter . In other...
Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004
October 5, 2011
At the recent F8 conference Facebook revealed that they now have 800 million active users . Europe, with Russia included, has a population...
Thought experiment: An Internet where all countries are equally developed (chart & numbers)
September 30, 2011
Have you ever asked yourself, “what if?” Today, the global distribution of Internet users doesn’t really reflect how the population is distributed in...
Microsoft’s web server is losing ground: IIS market share back to 1997 levels
September 16, 2011
Apache has been the most widely used web server on the Internet since the early days of the Web. It still is. The...
A visual of the rise and fall of domain tasting
August 31, 2011
Remember domain tasting ? At its worst, millions of domain names were yanked up and dropped every day in this rather nasty scheme...
Report: The most common web browsers and browser versions today
June 17, 2011
The web browser market is an ever-changing landscape. It can sometimes be rocky ground for web designers and web developers trying to make...
Is the online tech crowd really THAT dominated by men?
May 31, 2011
Tech is generally thought of as a male-dominated field, so it’s not surprising to see that visitors to tech blogs are predominantly male....
Internet users per time zone (chart)
May 19, 2011
We know that there are approximately two billion Internet users in the world, but how are they distributed? More specifically, how are they...
Where Yahoo still beats Google
April 29, 2011
It’s no secret that Yahoo has seen brighter days and that Google has come to utterly dominate the Web in a way that...
Windows 7 just overtook XP in the United States
April 8, 2011
It’s finally happened. After a long reign at the top, Microsoft’s Windows XP is no longer the most widely used desktop operating system...