Stats on the Web
article by: Lindsey Fair
- In 1999 13% of Small Business in Canada had web sites, which
doubled since 1998! Source: Canadian E-Business Opportunities
Roundtable, IDC Canada
- In 1999, 61% of business owners were connected to the Internet.
Source: Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Ted Mallett.
- Traffic Volume on the Internet doubles every 100 days. Source:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
- There are 12,844,877 unique domain names registered worldwide,
with 428,023 new domain names registered each week. Source: NetNames
Statistics
- Conducting business online will save companies $360-$480 billion
by 2002. Source: Giga Information Group
- Web Hits / day in 1999 averaged one billion . Source: eMarketer
/ Media Metrix
- Email in the workplace saves employers about $9,000 per employee
annually. Source: Ferris Research
- IBM saved $750 million by putting more internal administrative
functions onto the Web. Source: IBM Annual Report
- Cost to produce and send email newsletters is $5 per thousand,
compared to direct mail cost of $4686 per thousand. Source: CNET
Lindsey Fair is a web strategist with Inter Kingston Web Design
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