WEB TRAFFIC MONITORING company Pingdom makes it their business to track what we get up to on the internet. Their report for 2011 is out – and there are some mind-boggling figures on how we surfed, procrastinated and generally wasted hours on the internet last year.

Here’s how we did it:

100 billion photos on Facebook by mid-2011
4.5 million photos uploaded to Flickr each day

Apple iPhone 4 the most popular camera used on Flickr

1 trillion video playbacks on Youtube

4,189,214 new users on Vimeo
5.9 million – the estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011

100 million active Twitter users in 2011 (225m accounts)

250 million tweets per day (from Oct 2011)

800+ million Facebook users

200 million – number of users added to FB during 2011

The most viewed video on YouTube in 2011 was Rebecca Black’s Friday

#egypt was the number one hashtag on Twitter

70 million WordPress blogs
2.4bn social networking accounts worldwide

Internet explorer has biggest share of global desktop web browser market (39 percent); followed by Chrome (28), Firefox 25; Safari 6 and others
2.1bn internet users worldwide

45 per cent of internet users are under the age of 25
476.2m internet users in Europe

$2.6m – the price for social.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2011

555 million websites existed on the internet in December 2011. 300m websites were added in 2011 alone.
3.146bn email accounts worldwide

40 years since the first email was sent

71 per cent of worldwide email traffic was spam (in Nov 2011)