Facebook Statistics

Statistics are used in every walk of life to compare and contrast different types of things that exist in the world today. They are the basis of all scientific principles and all of the new scientific advances must have statistical proof to even have a chance at being accepted into general knowledge. In keeping with the importance that is placed on statistics in the world today, here are some interesting statistics regarding the Facebook social networking online service.

In terms of total users, Facebook has approximately 18,000,000. This number places it amongst the top social networking websites in the world; not bad for a website that was started as a hobby project by a Harvard student. This 18,000,000 number is reputed to contain multiple accounts; in other words there is an assertion out there that there are not actually 18,000,000 people using the Facebook service but that many people have more than one account on it. This is certainly true for many similar services such as MySpace, so it is indeed quite possible that there might be less than 18 million people using the Facebook service.

In terms of page views, Facebook gets 30,000,000,000 page views per month. That's right; 30 billion page views per month. If you were ever curious as to why people enjoy using social networking services to meet new people, that's why. This figure of 30 billion page views per month puts it second only to MySpace in the page views per month category amongst social networking websites. In addition, Facebook also enjoys a whopping 600,000,000 searches per month on the major search engines. There are a lot of people searching, using and joining the service on a regular basis and as social networking as a niche continues to grow, so too will Facebook.

The largest network on Facebook is the Toronto network, home to over 500,000 users and as a point of interest the servers that run Facebook have 2 terabytes (2000 gigabytes) of RAM in them.

Because Facebook and other social networking sites have become so popular, there have been many studies done on them. These studies track different variables and the following results from those studies might interest you greatly. According to a study done in 2005, approximately 85% of students in the post secondary institutions that have networks on Facebook had accounts on the site. Furthermore, it was also found that 60% of those students that had accounts logged into their accounts on a daily basis. Another interesting statistic that was found by a study conducted at the same time was that 9 out of every 10 undergraduate college students within the United States of America have either used Facebook or MySpace at some point in their life.

To end on a high note in this game of statistics, here is something that you might find very shocking. According to web traffic numbers and taking into account the 30 billion page views Facebook gets on a monthly basis, it is now the 7th most visited site within the United States.