As reported by Cnet.com, Mary Meeker, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Meeker, speaking today at the AllThingsD D11 Conference, reported that 2.4 billion people around the world are on the Internet, an 8% year-over-year gain.
Only 34% of the world’s population is online.
In the U.S., the Internet penetration is 78%.
In May 2009 mobile devices were only 0.9% of Internet traffic .
In 2010 mobile grew to 2.4%.
Ms. Meeker said that mobile devices are now responsible for 15% of Internet traffic and she predicts by the end of next year, mobile devices could account for 30% of all Internet traffic.
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Thanks for sharing. Some interesting stats. Specially the mobile internet traffic. This shows the mobile internet traffic has grown significantly in the last couple of years or so…
Only 34% of the world’s population is online….
I think it is more like 70% and more and more people are using smartphones because of low cost and no need that Land line to hook up.
check out
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
CNET:
Funny quote, and funny headline, @MHB! “The good news: 34% of th world population is online. The bad news: 34% of the world population is online.” That’s a brain teaser! I had to apply myself to figure it out!
Thanx for the headline. That’s why I created a review site of responsive examples
http://ResponsiveExamples.com
It’s a stampede to responsive themes. After I converted, so did Engadget, GigaOm, and Disney.
I would guess that the increase in “mobile traffic” is coming from people using Apps that access the Internet. Not so much from cruising the web the way that is conventionally done on PCs. Mobiles suck for that.
Smartphones are why more people are on the web – affordability to access the internet.
“In December 2011, 47.6 percent of the total mobile audience in the U.S. used apps, an increase
of 13.3 percentage points, while 47.5 percent used mobile browsers, up 11.1 points.”
– Comscore
The mobile browser might be an app, but surfing using a mobile browser is one of the top activities of phone use.
Louise wrote:
> but surfing using a mobile browser is one of the top activities
> of phone use.
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Stop fantasizing. Surfing with a mobile browser is nowhere near being one of the top activities of mobile phone uses. Most people do it only when they have to. And even more never touch their mobile browser at all. Texting, using apps, *actually making a phone call*, are much more common uses for mobile phones than surfing the web. (Which is a horrid task with a mobile phone.)
@ Grim said
Facebook, Google Maps and Bing and Google mobile search are all gateways to let you surf the web, is why I combined social marketing with visiting websites. Those apps make the internet fit your mobile browser.
Excluding social, you’re right. Surfing the web is #4, after voice calls, text, and social networking, according to Experian’s research:
Americans spend 58 minutes a day on their smartphones
http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2013/05/28/americans-spend-58-minutes-a-day-on-their-smartphones/?WT.srch=PR_EMS_smartphones_052813_press
Your point is not lost. Viewing websites on mobile – excluding laptops, which are considered, “mobile,” is terrible, because of slow-loading and antiquated design.
That is why I encourage everyone to develop with responsive templates, no matter how large or small the website, so what you click on in search – be it smartphone, tablet, or desktop – is what you get – no redirecting.