Social media has become a part and parcel of the online community. With almost half of global internet users devotedly engaging with social media sites, it is definitely okay to know some nerdy stuff, if you should call it, about these sites. Even the activities that takes place on these sites in a minute is mind blowing.
A graphic design blog, compiled an infographic “Statistics Of Top 5 Social Media Sites” that include Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit and StumbleUpon.
Would have loved to see LinkedIn and the rising Pinterest. Still, the infographic is heavily laden with data, cool graphics, and a very nice selection of the stats too. Enjoy it!
source: Graphicdesignblog.org
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Australians are apparently tired of Facebook, even though Facebook still remains their favorite online destination.
According to Experian Hitwise Australia, Facebook accounted for more than 50 percent of all social-networking traffic, the time users spent at the networking site has significantly decreased over the past one year.
Experian Hitwise tracked the Internet habits of 3 million Australians from January 2011 to January 2012, and found that the average time spent on Facebook was 26 minutes 27 seconds, down by about 21 percent in the last year.
Tumblr which is placed fourth in the social media popularity list and accounting for only 1.65% of the social-networking traffic, turned out to be the top attention-grabber, engaging the Australians for 30 minutes on average.
Google though far behind, maintained a fairly steady audience, with visit times increased by about 2 percent in the past year.
The five most popular social-networking were:
- Facebook – 50%
- YouTube (desktop site) – 23%
- YouTube (mobile site) – 2%
- Tumblr – 1.65%
- Yahoo Answers – 1.28%
For the first time, Facebook overtook Google as the most visited website in the United States last week, according to the Web analytics firm Hitwise.
Heather Dougherty, Hitwise’s director of research, said that Facebook had ‘reached an important milestone” with the weekly figures.
According to the firm’s weekly figures on March 13, the two sites accounted for 14% of all US internet visits last week. Facebook’s home page recorded 7.07% of traffic and Google’s 7.03%.
Though the lead is slim, it is really an important milestone for Facebook who’s popularity has seen an enormous growth over past year – from just 2% visits a year ago to 7.07%.
The number of Facebook’s users have also increased dramatically from 200 Million last April to 400 Million in February.
One reason for the ever increasing popularity of Facebook can be attributed to Facebook’s games. Zynga’s FarmVille game alone boasts more than 83 Million monthly users.
Social networking sites have fallen in the past and Google had been leading since September 2007, when it overtook News Corp’s MySpace.com. However, the tremendous growth enjoyed by Facebook over the past year have led to an increase in popularity of social networking.
According to Nielsen Company research firm, internet users around the world spent more than five and half hours a month on social networking sites on an average. US leads country wise with an average of six and half hours on Facebook.
