In a single minute, 6.3 million Google searches are entered, and 241 million email messages are sent—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The 11th Edition of Data Never Sleeps, the annual infographic depicting what happens every minute online, is here.
Compiled yearly since 2013 by the data experts at Domo, the latest iteration continues to add new bits of data, while others fall off the list. PCMag spoke to Domo’s SVP of Product, Ben Schein and he says every year they make a judgment call about what data is available, but also “what’s popular, what’s going on in the culture.” All while keeping the self-control to limit things to one pie chart. As an example, he notes that this year, time spent on Zoom-based meetings is not on the graphic, like it was throughout the pandemic.
What they did add for 2023 is how often Taylor Swift gets a stream (69,400 times per minute). Also new and in keeping with the internet’s collective obsession for the year is an entry on generative artificial intelligence, specifically that ChatGPT gets a total of 6,944 prompts every minute.
A few stats that continue year to year since 2022 include:
- Emails sent: 231.4 million per minute sent last year, went to 241 million per minute this year; (back in 2013 the stat was 204 million).
- Google searches: 5.9 million per minute last year to 6.3 million (2 million per minute in 2013).
- Tweets: 347,200 per minute last year to 360,000—after a dip between 2021 and 2022 (100,000 in 2013).
- Venmo cash sent: $437,600 per minute last year to $463,000 (2013 was the year PayPal bought Venmo.)
- Years of content streamed: 43 years streamed every minute… last year Domo styled it as 1 million hours streamed per minute. One million hours would cover 114 years so streaming time seems to have declined since the pandemic “ended.”
The one vendor Domo has mentioned continuously all 11 times it has issued this graphic is Instagram. It gets two mentions, once for how often people send a Reel via a direct message (694,000 times per minute) but also for how many times people downloaded the Threads app (3,720 times per minute) since it launched in July. The metric used for Instagram has changed, however—in 2017, Domo said Instagram users post 46,740 photos per minute.
Perhaps most interesting of all, using data pulled from Statista, the graphic indicates that the current global population using the internet is 5.2 billion, or 64.6% of the globe. That’s more than double the 2.1 billion with access in 2013.
For more—including stats on DDOS attacks, Doordash orders, and Twitch watchers—read Domo’s easily digestible full report (including a PDF) and check out the full graphic below.
(Credit: Domo)
