"If you've been sitting and waiting to read about Internet statistics for 2011, well, wait no more," declares Jim Hamm. He's found a bunch! He sends this link and goes on to say, "I have no idea as to the veracity of these numbers (how do it know?), but it makes for interesting reading — well, for me anyway. Some observations: 18 million people follow Lady Gaga's 'tweetings' on Twitter; Google Chrome web browser has grown significantly — and fast — and is now right behind Internet Explorer in usage; 71% of email traffic is spam (sheesh!); there are over 2 billion people using the Internet! It's amazing how the servers on the worldwide web are able to keep up with all this traffic. Lots of other trivia about the Internet that undoubtedly you'll enjoy knowing....(grin)."
If you're eyes are not glazed over scroll to the end of the site's page to go to statistics of annual summaries for 2008, 2009, and 2010.