We’ve all heard the mantra – ‘The internet is a fundamental force of modern business’, ‘If you are not on the Internet now, your business is obsolete’, etc, etc, etc. I am not going to haphazardly throw these statements at you. What I deal with is fact. I like hard numbers, not fuzzy statements. If you’re like me and you want to see some hard, real numbers on usage and growth.
Here are a few websites I find helpful for this matter:
- Internet Usage Statistics for the Americas: See by percentage how many Americans use the internet in 2006, the growth of Internet usage from 2000 – 2005, and many other useful facts.
- US Census Bureau E-Commerce Stats: The numbers are a little dated 2000-2002 but interesting nonetheless.
