Matters of Scale - Web Traffic
Number of visitors to JohnKerry.com during the week of the Democratic Convention | 771,000 |
Number of visitors that week to the website of Hidetoshi Nakata, a Japanese soccer star | 3,500,000 |
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Number of the 20 most visited websites (other than porn) that are U.S.-based
| 8 |
Number of the 20 most visited sites that are based in Asia | 11 |
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Number of unique visitors to pornography websites per day
| 23 to 60 million |
Number of unique visitors to the five largest news sites | 2 to 3 million |
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Number of pieces of first-class mail sent in the United States in 2002 | 102 billion |
Number of e-mail messages sent in the United States in 2000 | 968 billion |
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Projected number of pieces of first-class mail in the United States in 2005
| 97.5 billion |
Projected number of e-mail messages in the United States in 2007 | 2,693.9 billion |
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Number of Internet searches done by Americans in 2004 | about 40 billion |
Number of Americans who seem to have absorbed any of the vast and growing
accumulation of evidence that Bush administration environmental priorities
will likely prove catastrophic—to their planet’s air, water, forests, agriculture,
and prospects for their children—if continued another four years | about 0.004 billion |
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Sources: Visitors to JohnKerry and Hidetoshi Nakata websites: The Washington Post;
most-visited websites in the United States and Asia: Alexa Top 500; visitors to porn vs. news
websites: alternet.org, Forbes.com, and Net Ratings; first-class mail vs. e-mail: U.S. Postal
Service and Information Technology Association of America; number of Internet searches:
com.Score qSearch, quoted in batellemedia.com; Americans aware of the trouble ahead:
rough guesstimate by the editor.