What happens on the Internet in 1 second?

Although people seem to be unable to do much with 1 second in real life, they can do a huge amount of work in the same short period of time on the Internet.

According to statistics, there are currently 46.1% of the population around the globe using online networks, which is equivalent to 3.4 billion people. Although there are still 53.9% (4 million people) in the world without Internet connection, but compared to this rate 5 years ago (68.2%), we can imagine the number of network users. How much has grown.

The Internet Live Stats site has recently created an online map, statistics the actual amount of activity on the Internet around the globe, taking into account every second. It shows that there are millions of people searching for online information, posting information on social networks and sending emails at the same time.

Any day, Google receives more than 3 billion search queries, which means an average of 54,000 requests per second.

Specifically, about 6,000 - 7,000 pieces of messages (tweets) are shared on Twitter every second , equivalent to 350,000 tweets / minute, 500 million tweets / day and about 200 billion tweets / year. The first tweet appeared on the Internet on March 21, 2006 and until 2009, the number of tweets on Twitter reached the number of billions. However, in the present, it takes less than 2 days to have 1 billion pieces of tweet spread on the internet.

On any given day, Google also received more than 3 billion search queries, ie an average of 54,000 requests per second , more than 90 billion requests per month, and about 1,200 billion searches a year worldwide. When this huge search engine started to launch in 1998, it received only 10,000 requests to look up information every day. By 2006, 10,000 was the number of Google searches received in 1 second.

Every second on the Internet has also seen more than 2 million emails sent , with 67% of them being considered spam.

In the same short period of time, an average of 729 photos were uploaded to Instagram, 125,406 videos were viewed on Youtube and 2,177 calls were made via Skype application.

At any given time, 20,000 are online on Facebook and 5 more people open new accounts on this social network. On Facebook, 510 comments were posted every 60 seconds, 293,000 updated statuses and 136,000 shared photos.

The impressive statistics are published at the same time many experts voiced alarm about the "addiction" smartphone in the world. Researchers found that excessive use of the Internet and mobile phones is facing us to face high risk of distraction, committing cognitive errors and forgetting important information.