Some Interesting Facts You Might Not Be Aware Of

There are approx. 124 billion websites on the internet today

Of these, there are only an estimated 10 million which are mobile websites

Which represents 0.008 of 1% of the total number of websites online

That’s like comparing a group of 25 people*….

…to the population of the USA with 310 million people!

[* Not 25,000 as you may have seen elsewhere!]

What Does Google Think of Mobile?

According to CEO Eric Schmidt, Google are now adopting a Mobile First policy

  He was quoted as saying:
 

“The mobile phone is the meeting point… everything will be in the context of powerful mobile phones.
Now our programmers are doing work on mobile first… that is in fact a change.”

What About My Local Business?

Is that Just From Desktops?

What Does Google Say About Mobile AND Local Search?

“Google has seen a 500% growth in local mobile search from 2008 to 2010 and a 67% increase in mobile queries in the last quarter alone.”

Some More Mobile Facts You (Probably) Didn’t Know

2002 – More mobile phones than fixed landlines

2002 – More SMS text messaging users than email users

2005 – More musicphones sold than MP3 players including iPod

2005 – First television phones launched

2007 – Mobile phones become first gadget to sell 1 billion units per year

2008 – More users access the internet on their mobile than access on all types of PCs combined

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2008 – More Smartphones sold than all portable PCs, laptops, notebooks and netbooks combined

2009 – Mobile data revenues exceeded total internet revenues

Mobile is the fastest-growing Trillion-dollar industry in the economic history of mankind