THE INTERNET BY NUMBERS

60 MBPS

The average broadband speed worldwide

2,670

There are thousands of data centres in the US alone

670,000 SQUARE METRES

The world’s largest data centre, the Citadel, covers over 165 acres

21 NOVEMBER 2020

This was the busiest day ever on the internet

THE FIRST INTERNET RADIO SHOW AIRED IN 1993

390 MILLION

Instagram followers total nearly half a billion

THE FIRSTEVER MUSIC DOWNLOAD HAPPENED IN 1994

THE MOST GOOGLED WORDS IN 2021 WERE ‘AUSTRALIA VS INDIA’

30 MBPS

The average mobile internet speed is about half that of home broadband

THE MOST GOOGLED ANIMAL WORLDWIDE IS THE CAT

2,800 METRES

The deepest live internet broadcast

237 MILES

The longest ever broadband wireless signal

319 TERABITS PER SECOND

The current world record internet speed

6.5 BILLION

The number of mobile broadband subscriptions worldwide

10 BILLION

Times people have watched Youtube’s most popular video, ‘Baby Shark’ 138 MBPS

600 MBPS

The broadband speed on the International Space Station

92 TERABITS PER SECOND

The capacity of the world’s most powerful router

882MBPS

Haul Fryn, Swansea, is the street with the UK’S fastest broadband

64.2 ZETTABYTES

The world creates and consumes over 64 trillion gigabytes of data annually