Take a Look Inside 60 Seconds on the Internet

(Credit: Domo)

The internet is a busy place; there's plenty happening every second, whether you're aware of it or not. As AI and data products firm Domo notes in its annual "internet minute" report, the 12th edition of which is out today, "data never sleeps."

Each year, Domo adds new features to a colorful wheel showing average stats per minute. Last year's inclusion of 30 DDoS attacks per minute (30) was a startling highlight, as was how many streams Taylor Swift earned every 60 seconds (69,400). To compare some stats that are (almost) ever-present on the list:

Google searches per minute have decreased from a high of 6.3 million last year to 5.9 million, a 6% drop that puts it back to 2022 levels.
Email sent increased from 241 million per minute last year to 251.1 million.
Texts sent shot up from 16 million per minute (in 2022) to 18.8 million.
In 2023, viewers watched 43 years of content per minute. This year, the entertainment slices depict YouTube video views (3.5 million per minute) and Reels played on Meta’s platforms (138.9m per minute).
Netflix streaming dropped from 452,000 hours per minute in 2021 to 362,962 hours this year.
Messages sent on Snapchat grew from 2.4 million in 2022 to 3.3 million per minute.
Slack users sent 148,000 messages per minute in 2021 but now shoot out 1.04 million.

Sometimes, Domo switches up the type of stats it delivers for the same brand. In 2021, for example, Domo reported that Zoom hosted 856 webinars per minute; this year it says that 288 people download the Zoom app every minute.

AI was hard to escape in 2024, but Domo's graphic only has a few AI-related entries. The obvious one is that Google’s Gemini gets 8,574 visitors per minute. Siri, which got a small Apple Intelligence boost this year, answers 1.04 million questions per minute.

That said, Domo already released a standalone Data Never Sleeps: AI Edition report earlier this year. That one spelled out the number of Dall-E images (1,389), ChatGPT prompts (6,944), college papers flagged for AI plagiarism (52), and deepfakes (1) that happen every minute. Perhaps the worst stat is that 185 gallons of water cool ChatGPT supercomputers every minute.

The biggest bummer on this year's list: The number of personal records compromised by data breaches every minute is 4,080. That’s 5,875,200 per day. The good news, for retailers at least, is that global shoppers spent $43.6 million every minute during Cyber Week.

It’s not in the wheel, but Domo also notes that the number of internet users has shot up to 5.52 billion (with a B), which is 67.5% of the world’s population. A decade ago, it was 3 billion.

About Our Expert

Eric Griffith

Senior Editor, Features

My Experience

I've been writing about computers, the internet, and technology professionally since 1992, more than half of that time with PCMag. I arrived at the end of the print era of PC Magazine as a senior writer. I served for a time as managing editor of business coverage before settling back into the features team for the last decade and a half. I write features on all tech topics, plus I handle several special projects, including the Readers' Choice and Business Choice surveys and yearly coverage of the Best ISPs and Best Gaming ISPs, Best Products of the Year, and Best Brands (plus the Best Brands for Tech Support, Longevity, and Reliability).

I started in tech publishing right out of college, writing and editing stories about hardware and development tools. I migrated to software and hardware coverage for families, and I spent several years exclusively writing about the then-burgeoning technology called Wi-Fi. I was on the founding staff of several magazines, including Windows Sources, FamilyPC, and Access Internet Magazine. All of which are now defunct, and it's not my fault. I have freelanced for publications as diverse as Sony Style, Playboy.com, and Flux. I got my degree at Ithaca College in, of all things, television/radio. But I minored in writing so I'd have a future.

In my long-lost free time, I wrote some novels, a couple of which are not just on my hard drive: BETA TEST ("an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale," according to Publishers' Weekly) and a YA book called KALI: THE GHOSTING OF SEPULCHER BAY. Go get them on Kindle.

I work from my home in Ithaca, NY, and did it long before pandemics made it cool.

The Technology I Use

My first computer was a Laser 128, an Apple II-compatible clone with an integrated keyboard, matched with an eye-straining monochrome green monitor. I used it to type papers in college for other people for money...until I discovered the Mac SE in the college computer room. That changed my life. My first cellphone was a Samsung Uproar—the silver one with the built-in MP3 player from the Napster days (the pre-iPod era).

I use an iPhone 15 Pro hourly and an iPad Air infrequently (but I'm always in the market for a cheap Android tablet). I have a PlayStation 5 just to play Spider-Man, and several Windows machines, including a work-issued Lenovo ThinkPad. I talk to Alexa and Siri all day long. I do the majority of my computing on a 15-inch LG Gram laptop attached to a Thunderbolt hub to run a multi-monitor setup—I overdid it on the power needed to simply work from home.

I'm most at home in Microsoft Word after decades of writing there. More and more, I turn to services like Google Docs, using tools like Grammarly. I use Google's Chrome browser due to an addiction to several extensions I think I can't live without, but probably could. I use Excel extensively on data-intensive stories, but for chart creation, we've switched over entirely to using Infogram for interactive features that are hard to find elsewhere. I do a lot of graphics work for my stories, but limit myself to the free and amazing Paint.NET software to edit images.

I'm a firm evangelist for using the cloud for backup and syncing of files; I'm primarily using Dropbox, which has never failed me, but I also have redundant setups on Microsoft OneDrive, plus extra picture backups on Amazon Photos and iCloud. Why take chances? For entertainment, mine is a streaming-only household—my kid has never seen network TV and barely been exposed to commercials, thanks to Roku and Amazon Music. The house is peppered with smart speakers from Amazon for instant gratification and control of smart home devices like multiple Wyze cameras and Nest Protect smoke detectors. I've got accounts on all the major social networks, to my horror. I have a robot vacuum for each floor of the house. I want a 3D printer, but not sure what I'd use it for.

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