---
title: "Chart of the Week: A minute on the Internet"
description: "Keeping up with what people do online is no easy task — just ask the researchers in our Internet Project. Nor is it much easier for those seeking ways to make money off online activities — they’re changing almost too fast to keep up with. But the folks at Quartz, the  business-news site from Atlantic […]"
date: "2013-11-27"
authors:
  - name: "Drew DeSilver"
    job_title: "Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/drew-desilver/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/11/27/chart-of-the-week-a-minute-on-the-internet/"
categories:
  - "Platforms & Services"
---

# Chart of the Week: A minute on the Internet

Keeping up with what people do online is no easy task -- just ask the researchers in our [Internet Project](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/). Nor is it much easier for those seeking ways to make money off online activities -- they're changing almost too fast to keep up with.

But the folks at Quartz, the business-news site from Atlantic Media, have given it a good shot. They pulled together data from Intel, investment bank GP Bullhound, and a Facebook-led consortium called Internet.org to create this [neat summation](http://qz.com/150861/a-snapshot-of-one-minute-on-the-internet-today-and-in-2012/) of what happens in a minute on six of the Web's biggest services -- and how that's changed in just one year:

[![minute_internet](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/minute_internet.png)](http://qz.com/150861/a-snapshot-of-one-minute-on-the-internet-today-and-in-2012/)

Here's another way of looking at the same numbers:

[![minute_Internet2](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2013/11/minute_Internet2.png)](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/11/minute_Internet2.png)

Part of the reason each "internet minute" is busier is, simply, because more people are online: 2.75 billion, or 38.8% of the global population, according to the [International Telecommunication Union](http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/publications/mis2013/MIS2013_without_Annex_4.pdf). But as Quartz notes, another reason is that faster connection speeds are enabling users to do a lot more, and a lot more quickly, than ever before: Average global broadband speeds are 17% faster than last year, according to the publication.