Subscribe
Browse Categories
- All Categories (938)
RackApps on Twitter
-
wxcampbell: Love job @Rackspace. Sent company-wide email asking for favorite beer sold only in Wisconsin. Fellow Racker driving me back some next week! 16 hours, 53 minutes
-
alexlapusan: Email antispam filters + server side filtering = Better life! at @Rackspace 1 day, 5 hours, 32 minutes
-
rackspace: @CodyBrown Sorry to hear about your compromise troubles. Email me your troubles, I'm getting cloud support on it now. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 1 day, 14 hours, 49 minutes
-
kcren: @Abdulk We used to see NSN ("No Suitable Nodes") errors and intermittent email failures. Rackspace "back room" support definitely fixed it. 2 days, 4 hours, 52 minutes
-
faganjim: @Vinko How can I have someone on my team get in contact with you. You can email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 2 days, 9 hours, 15 minutes
Archives
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
Questions?
Talk with a fanatic.
What Email Looked Like in 2009 in Numbers
The folks at Pingdom.com posted some interesting stats a couple weeks ago on what the Internet looked liked in 2009 in terms of numbers. Who would have guessed that in 2009 over 90 trillion (yes, trillion) emails were sent across the Internet? Compare that to The United States Postal Service (aka snail mail) that delivered just over 200 billion total packages in 2008.
There are a lot of other interesting numbers from Pingdom on the Internet in 2009 over on their blog. For your enjoyment we decided to pull out some of the interesting stats below on Email numbers in 2009.
Thanks to Pingdom.com for the stats below.
- 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
- 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
- 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
- 100 million – New email users since the year before.
- 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
- 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
- 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
- 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam)
Follow 
so you mean there are 47 billion email messages per day that are not spam? That’s still a lot. Assuming 1 billion people with email, that’s 47 messages per day per person.
Well, maybe, yes.