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Americans spend about 2.7 hours on the mobile Internet per day.
According to Ruder Finn, Americans spend about 2.7 hours on the mobile Internet per day.
From 2008 to 2009 mobile-broadband data traffic grew by a whopping 158%
According to Bernstein Research, from 2008 to 2009 mobile-broadband data traffic grew by a whopping 158%.
189m mobile-broadband connections generating on average 175 megabytes of traffic per month
At the end of 2008 there were 189m mobile-broadband connections, generating on average 175 megabytes of traffic per month, according to Bernstein Research.
In 2008…Americans consumed over 3,600 exabytes of information, or an average of 34 gigabytes per person per day
In 2008, according to a new UC-San Diego study, Americans consumed over 3,600 exabytes of information, or an average of 34 gigabytes per person per day.
According to ComScore, Google handles 80 percent of European Web searches, compared with 65 percent in the United States.
Somewhere between 25% and 40% of Web traffic is video.
Fifty-two percent of online traffic is Web (HTTP) traffic, up from almost 42% in 2007.
Two years ago, 15,000 networks accounted for about 50% of online traffic; today, 100 networks out of over 35,000 contribute 60% of all online traffic.
The largest source of traffic is Google, which accounts for 6% of all Internet traffic globally.
According to a Comcast filing, Hulu represents just 4 percent of videos viewed.