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Internet user statistics and language statistics from around the world can be found at the InternetWorldStats.com website. There are internet statistics from each of the seven continents and the countries within each continent. The website also offers population numbers per country, internet users and number of broadband connections within each country. Statistics are kept up-to-date and compared to year 2000 numbers. What an incredible growth the internet has had since then!

Google recently announced the importance of load speed when it comes to ranking websites. Measure how fast your site loads with Yahoo!’s YSlow Firefox add-on. Not only does it measure the tim eit takes for your site to load, it will also offer suggestions on how to optimize your site for faster loading speeds.

Your site is up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Or is it? If you want to make sure that your server and the network are up and running, Mon.itor.us, a free website, server and traffic monitoring service can be of help. After signing in with a free account, you get multiple options for monitoring, generating reports, widgets for your websites, statistics, alert feeds and more.

Created by Gary Hayes, this real time social media counter counts blog posts added, new Facebook members added, tweets sent on Twitter, videos watched on YouTube, searches made on Google, money spent on virtual gifts and a lot more. To visit Gary’s blog and read about what data the numbers in this social media counter are based on, go to his PersonalizeMedia blog.

AddFreeStats free real time stats let you know where your visitors are coming in from, which links they’re clicking when they leave your site and also lets you track Google Adsense clicks.

Test a page multiple times to get an idea if it loads easily or lets the viewer wait. WebWait is a website timer. Use WebWait to benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection. It takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading.