As you know, the world's leading countries for the implementation of the IT infrastructure is the United States. It is in North America is now the largest number of data centers, many of which are real giants. At the same time, Asia takes a number, thus showing phenomenal growth in the region as the computing power of IT infrastructure, as well as the number of users on the network. What happens in this context, Europe, rolling on the periphery? Several shed light on this issue helped the published research company Global Web Index statistical report "European digital landscape 2014» (European Digital Landscape 2014). The study has affected 40 countries in Europe. Although these studies are fresh, but even during the collection has already been noted that they are changing towards quantitative and qualitative increase, and this trend is taken into account for the most accurate perception of the above results of the study in one of the most developed regions of the world.
A Global Perspective h4> 
The total number of Internet users - it is probably the most controversial and the most dynamically variable parameter. According to some estimates the world has currently about 3 billion users, but how this figure is correct to assert difficult. At the time of the work on the preparation of the report experts Global Web Index settled on a figure of 2,640,432,161 that percentage is about 37%. While it is clear that the absolute numbers is rampant, but the percentages are not so undergo significant changes over short time periods, and the level of confidence in them is quite high.
Internet in Europe h4> 
Specificity of the Internet market in Europe is an extremely high percentage of internet penetration in society. For the leaders of the seven countries this percentage is even stepped phenomenal 90%, which shows us that the bar market saturation, which is quite possible to achieve. It is obvious that the rest of the civilized world one way or another will go forward to this level.
At a time when the average level of Internet penetration in the life of the average citizen of Europe was 68%, the greatest potential for growth in Europe remains at the eastern and central part. Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus showed the lowest result of information society.
The total number of Internet users in the countries of the continent in 2014 amounted to more than half. It is worth noting the fact that Turkey has not been taken into account, although de facto it has about 45 million users. While these numbers are impressive, but quantitatively clearly inferior to the Asian region. For comparison, the number of users in China alone already exceeded 600 million.
The Russians and Poles most are online h4> 
Every day an average of Poles spend online 4 hours 50 minutes, the same amount and the Russians. If we take only the mobile Internet, the leaders in torturing your smartphone became Italians spend on the Internet via their mobile devices to 2 hours and 15 minutes daily.
Social Networks h4> 
When comes to the issue of social networks, it is clearly seen dividing preferences inhabitants of the continent of Europe into two camps.
Facebook unconditionally dominates in Western Europe, a total of 37 countries in the region, tightening in your network about 232.2 million active users, and this is 19% of all users of the social network in the world. And this despite the fact that live in these European countries, only 8% of the population.
Eastern Europe is firmly stuck, of course, in VKontakte. The greatest number of users in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Only in the three countries mentioned the number of active users totaled just over 60 million. Facebook also among the preferences of residents of the three above-mentioned countries, but the number of active users in them at the level of 12, 4 million, although it is worth noting a tendency to increase the social network in Eastern Europe.
As leaders of the region on Internet penetration in society, Iceland became also the leader in penetration into people's homes soc. networks. Facebook is popular with 70% of the island nation.
Malta several varieties with their 58% penetration of the social. networks in society Scandinavian club, which consisted of four countries in the top 5 most enslavement social networks. Apparently there really is not much fun long polar winters.
But the greatest amateurs talk, as one would expect, were the Italians and Russians. They spend every day on social networks more than 40% of the total time spent on the Internet.
Interesting may be the fact that access to social networks citizens of Europe in 66% of cases is carried out using the mobile Internet, and this number is growing steadily.
In the quantitative calculation of the countries of the region a leader in sots.seti exit from mobile devices has become the UK. The study showed that in the country of 30 million users already.
Picture sub-regions of Europe h4> On the basis of the analysis of the study, the staff of Global Web Index found it expedient to split the European continent into sub-regions based on the preferences of similar behavior in the network and the level of informatization of society. According to the results of this work have been allocated 7 parts.
This map can be an important element in understanding the level of information development of countries, particularly differences in the behavior of people in Europe network.
Conclusions h4> Statistics - is an integral part of a proper understanding of complex multi-level processes. Europe is a densely populated continent with a rather motley social landscape, which is to be explored. This report may be of interest not only sellers of all kinds of Internet services, but also ordinary users of the network, which based on it can match their preferences with the preferences of people in different countries. The analysis of this report may be important not only for understanding the processes that are going through the different countries of the continent. Being one of the most developed regions of the world, Europe can be regarded as a pioneer in the development of information technology, in the footsteps of which, with some delay, will move less developed regions of the world.
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