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If your don't have a online presence you could be losing out on opportunities why your competitors take them away from you. Check out these unbelievable statistics and ask yourself a question, do you have the website in place to compete with today's competitive market?
Internet Usage
- E-mail messages sent worldwide in 1995: 101 billion. In 2000: 2.6 trillion. In 2005: 9.2 trillion.
- Number of people who have personalized a Web site: 34.4 million. Registered at a site: 47.1 million.
- 27.4 million Americans used chat and instant messaging from home in March. 6.5 million used it from work.
- Americans who had access to the Net, but no longer plan to surf: nearly 12 million.
- 70 percent of people online seek out entertainment-related content.
Population
- Global population in 1999: 6 billion. Net users: 300 million. Percent online: 5.
- Americans online in 2000: 122 million, or 44 percent. 2005: 194 million, or 68 percent.
- 50.4 percent of the U.S. online population is female.
- U.S. workers with Web access at work in 1999: 63 percent. 2000: 70 percent. 2004: 85 percent.
- Number of U.S. home customers of high-speed DSL or cable modem access: 3.1 million.
- The number of global wireless surfers in January 2000: 6 million. In 2005: 484 million.
E-Commerce
- E-commerce represented 1.4 percent of total retail sales in 1999 and will be 2.4 percent in 2000.
- U.S. business-to-business e-commerce will rise to $6.3 trillion in 2005, from $336 billion in 2000.
- U.S. consumer e-commerce is expected to reach $45 billion this year. In 2005: $269 billion.
- U.S. online adults who shop on the Net: 56 percent.
- E-commerce this holiday season may hit $11.6 billion in the U.S., up 65 percent from $7 billion during the 1999 season.
- Online small businesses with e-commerce in 2000: 34 percent. In 2003: 49 percent.
- Kids and teens are expected to spend $4.9 billion online in 2005.
Advertising
- Over the past four years, Internet ad spending has grown to 23 times 1995 levels. In the early days of TV, ad spending grew only five times over its first five years.
- Net ad spending in the first half of 2000: first half of 2000: $4.1 billion. 2000 total: $8 billion.
- Internet ads will be 4 percent of total ad spending this year; 10 percent by 2004.
- Almost 4,600 sites and networks sell ad space.
- About 5,700 companies are advertising online. An estimated 75 percent of these are Internet firms.
- Most ad spending - 71 percent - goes to the top 10 sites. The top 100 sites net 91 percent of total spending.
- Half of Net ad spending went to banner ads in the second quarter of 2000. That's down 57 percent from 2099.
All statistics were taken from http://www.thestandard.com
