CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, has just released Canada’s Internet Factbook 2018.
With over 2.8 million registered domains, CIRA manages the names of websites ending in .ca . As such, it has its (Canadian) finger on the pulse of the Internet. Some of the insights are very telling:
- Nearly 90% of Canadians use the internet.
- 86% of Canadians have a broadband internet connection at home.
- 72% of Canadians use a mobile device to access the internet.
- 52% of Canadian households have five or more internet-connected devices.
- 66% of Canadians spend at least 1 hour online per day watching TV/movies/video.
- 77% of Canadians use Facebook.
- 53% of Canadians subscribe to Netflix.
- 14% of Canadians often/always seek out Canadian content.
- 79% of Canadians want Canadian internet service providers/online service companies to invest in building up internet infrastructure inside Canada.
See the infographic.
My take: Thank goodness for the Domain Name System because before 1985 servers only had IP addresses; it would be four years before Tim Berners-Lee would create the World Wide Web.