Mountains of Data
“Data transfer of 50 GB in a single month is roughly equivalent to a twenty-page site with small images and no multimedia being thoroughly examined by 50,000 visitors.”
I found this statistic incredibly insightful into the amount of data that is transmitted across the internet daily. If this is the average for a small site that can be run from a home sever I can’t even comprehend the amount of raw data that Facebook, YouTube, or Reddit’s servers have to handle on a daily basis. This Infographic was one of the first things that showed up on a google search for “amount of data generated daily” and compares it to physical terms that are easier to comprehend.
Data tracking is a large part of our daily lives with download speed, cellphone data plans, and the hard drive space on our personal computers. I find it interesting that we always clamor for more storage space or brag about the size of our iTunes library that is all a fraction of a decimal place compared to the amount of data that just Facebook processes on a daily basis. Its also shocking to me how rapidly the amount of storage space and data we transmit has increased exponentially in just the past 5 years with the saturation of smartphones and high speed wireless networks.