Internet Usage Statistics: How We Spend Our Time Online (INFOGRAPHIC)

Visual Economics has added some color and snazz to surprising Internet usage statistics from Nielsen and the Pew Research Center.

A few highlights from the data presented in the infographic:

• 55% of Americans use the Internet every day. Of those, 45% send or read email and 40% use search engines, but only 15% use social networks and only 5% play online games.

• Americans spends60 hours a month online. If you were to put those hours back-to-back, you'd be surfing the web for a whole month.

• While about 70% of American Internet users participate in social networking, nearly 90% of Brazil's Internet population is a part of this trend. Around the world, Internet users now spend 22% of their time online engaging in social networking.

• Social media aside, the world spends 36% of its web time using email, engaging in commerce, performing searches. 42% of time is spent viewing content.

• In a singe month, a web user visits 2,646 sites and logs on 57 times.

(via Visual Economics)

Comments

[PaulAdams]

08:17 PM on 06/29/2010

No mention of porn, the whole reason the internet was invented... Duh

[mepaul1]

11:30 AM on 06/29/2010

Apparently that top 55% line is mis-labled--it should read "gawk at porn."

[Chiron090]

12:46 AM on 06/24/2010

WOW! 36% of our time on the internet is spent searching for the 46% percent of stuff we're going to look at and then post status updates about with the left over 22% of our time. Amazing. Who would of thought people would spend so much of their time on the world wide web viewing content on the world wide web. Freaking info graphic wizards I tell ya.

[StrongEagle]

07:36 AM on 06/23/2010

Did anyone at HuffPost read this article and its supposed 'statistics'? It's not even internally consistent with the most elementary stuff.

C'mon HP... we don't need idiot journalism, and frankly, there is more and more of it everyday.

Take a look at the IHT. Much to learn there.

[tacevad]

07:35 PM on 06/22/2010

put me down as all of the above minus the banking online...I prefer a real teller, preferably a pleasant one.

[1smartcanerican]

07:13 PM on 06/22/2010

"Americans spends60 hours a month online. If you were to put those hours back-to-back, you'd be surfing the web for a whole month." - doesn't 60 hrs/month = 5 days, not a whole month?

[SonOfUgh]

10:33 PM on 06/22/2010

I suspect they might have meant a whole month in a given year.
60 hrs/month = 2.5 days / month.
2.5 days / month multiplied by 12 months / year = 30 days / year
Unless of course I've botched my math.

[ResearchtheFacts]

03:03 PM on 06/22/2010

But email is dead right? They sure sold that argument. lol

[jcd8822]

10:47 AM on 06/24/2010

Email will be dead when everyone on earth is dead, LOL

[arrgh]

02:44 PM on 06/22/2010

Trekkie Monster has a song about this.

[Jason Bender]

01:54 PM on 06/22/2010

There is no way that people bank online more than they buy products, read blogs or look at videos. What exactly is banking online for the purposes of this data?

[Angelus2007]

04:17 PM on 06/22/2010

I bank online daily. I don't transfer money, or pay bills daily, but I check my acct daily. I don't buy daily, or watch videos daily.