Internet Usage by Time Zone, China Biggest Contributor

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Internet Usage by Time Zone, China Biggest Contributor

By CircleID Reporter
May 19, 2011, 5:48 pm PDT Views: 7,389 Add Comment

Pingdom has conducted a study on how today’s two billion internet users around the world are spread over different time zones. Study found two time zones stand head and shoulders above the others in terms of the amount of Internet users they contain: UTC+8, which passes through eastern Asia, and UTC+1, which passes through Europe and Africa.

Other findings include:

• The largest time zone bracket is UTC+8 (503 million Internet users). The biggest contributor by far is China (all of China uses the same time zone, so that’s 420 million Internet users), followed by the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan.

• The second-largest time zone bracket is UTC+1 (357 million Internet users). The biggest contributors are Germany, Italy, France, Nigeria, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands.

• The third-largest time zone bracket is UTC-5 (161 million Internet users). The biggest contributors are the United States (the east coast), Colombia and Canada.

• Seven time zone brackets contain more than 100 million Internet users: UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+1, UTC+2, UTC+5, UTC+8 and UTC+9.

The time zones shown also include any “uneven” time zones, e.g. UTC+5½ is included in the UTC+5 group. (Source: Pingdom)

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