Infographic States Obvious about Email (It's Crazy Popular)
Infographic States Obvious about Email (It's Crazy Popular)
Posted 09/30/2010 at 5:07am
| by Paul Lilly
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Newsflash: Email is popular. You already knew that, but in case you wanted some hard numbers to go with that proclamation, or need a non-sultry poster to hang over the dart holes in your dorm room wall, Pingdom is more than willing to oblige.
Pingdom combed through data from a variety of sources so it could pit email versus snail mail. The result? Snail mail got trounced. According to Pingdom's research, there are 14.4 trillion emails sent out every year, or 39.6 billion per day (incidentally, 81 percent of that is spam, though we've seen that figure quoted even higher). By comparison, sacrificial trees 'only' contributed to 177 billion snail mails per year, or 485 million per day (most of which is legit -- 53 percent compared to 47 percent junk).
In other words, email outnumbers snail mail 81 to 1. Grab the full sized infographic from here.
Image Credit: Pingdom
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DOAcepr
September 30, 2010 at 4:04pm
81% of 14,400,000,000,000,000 = a $#!^ load of spam! Seriously, that should be addressed.
Scootiep
September 30, 2010 at 5:54am
"By comparison, sacrificial trees 'only' contributed to 177 billion emails per year,"
Pretty sure you meant to say "177 billion pieces of mail..." as I'm pretty sure that snail mail does not send Emails and that no trees contribute to email. Juuuuuust sayin...
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