A snapshot of one minute on the internet, in 2013 and in 2012

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One reason the internet minute is now richer is simply that there are more people online (Excel file). The proportion of the global population using the internet rose three percentage points to 38.8% this year. More significantly, average global broadband speeds are up 17% on last year. Together, those two things mean that more people than ever are searching, uploading, networking and buying. As Google and Facebook continue their campaigns to bring the rest of the world online, expect the internet minute to get denser—and the revenues of the world’s biggest internet businesses to grow larger.

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 One reason the internet minute is now richer is simply that there are <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/statistics/2013/ITU_Key_2005-2013_ICT_data.xls">more people online</a> (Excel file). The proportion of the global population using the internet rose three percentage points to 38.8% this year. More significantly, average global broadband speeds are up 17% on last year. Together, those two things mean that more people than ever are searching, uploading, networking and buying. As Google and Facebook continue <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://qz.com/117487/mark-zuckerbergs-plan-to-get-the-world-online-is-good-for-business-and-not-just-facebooks-business/">their campaigns</a> to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://a4ai.org/">bring the rest of the world online</a>, expect the internet minute to get denser—and the revenues of the world’s biggest internet businesses to grow larger.