10 Eye-popping Facts About Facebook
Fact #1
Facebook is the #1 website worldwide with more page views than Google.
Only Google out ranks it in terms of unique visitors, (but not for long).
Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
Fact #2
75% of Americans, and 66% of the global internet population visit social networks.
And it’s growing at 3x the rate of the overall internet.
Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
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Fact #3
Facebook has 400 million+ users. If it were a nation it would be the world’s third-largest country by population
It took just 2 years to reach its first 50 million users.
The internet took 5 years. Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
Fact #4
Average U.S person spends 66 hours/month online
7 are spent on Facebook
More than all the time spent on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft/Bing, Wikipedia and Amazon combined
Source: www.census.gov
Fact #5
Source: Nielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009 & The World Bank
4.5 billion updates are posted to Facebook/week
6.7 billion total world population
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Fact #6
Facebook delivers more than 2x the upstream traffic to news and media sites than Google.
RIP Google?
Source: Hitwise 2/2/10
Fact #7
Facebook ‘Like’ is a new index of the web, based on users’ choices.
Source: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook interviewed on the Wall Street Journal Blog
Facebook served
1 billion ‘Likes’ in the first 24 hours after its launch.
Fact #8
100 million+ people have used Facebook Connect, to share details with other websites.
Visitors are 200% more likely to log in to your website using Facebook Connect than any on site log in.
Source: Facebook Connect website
Time to ditch your site’s login and use Facebook Connect?
Fact #9
33% of Facebook users are fans of brands. That’s more than 132 million people.
#1 reason for becoming a fan? To get special offers and promotions.
Source: Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies, 3/10/10
Fact #10
56% of web buyers cite the Facebook Wall and Fan pages as having significant influence over buying decisions.
Source: Etailing group and Power reviews 2010 Social Shopping Study
Are you running two unconnected websites, one on Facebook?
It’s time to leverage this powerhouse.
Source: Etailing group and Power reviews 2010 Social Shopping Study
Find out more.
Learn about Facebook Like and Connect and what they mean for ecommerce.
www.seewhy.com/facebook