Cliff Kuang published last week a very interesting article (“Infographic of the Day: Comparing the 100 Largest Sites on the Internet“), showing a lot of graphics how the internet is currently used and pointed me to the original source from BBC: “SuperPower: Visualising the internet”
Internet Usage per Country
You can find treemaps about the current internet traffic categorized by
- TOP 100 Sites
- Search / Portal
- Social networks
- Retail Sites
- Media / News
- By Country
Most sites reveal the one and the other surprise but I have been particularly surprised to see my home country Luxembourg showing up on the “by Country” break down.
This traffic (>39.000.000 unique users) is not caused by a .lu domain, but solely to Skype, as the company is based in Luxembourg. Funny enough big traffic in Germany is caused by the RTL network. Even though RTL has its origin in Luxembourg, the RTL network is meanwhile managed from Cologne, Germany.
