Over 1 Million Web Sites Lean On Facebook

In case you haven’t subscribed to Facebook’s official Statistics page, you may want to know the latest data. You may skip some of them, but there one that you cannot miss — the number of companies which implemented the Facebook on their sites, either through plugins or other features, has gone up to one million. Other figures may be less important but they are just as impressive. So read on and update yourselves with the data available.

Facebook has its own page for all the statistics and it is organized by various categories. At the very top is the “People on Facebook” section where the data hasn’t been changed much. It claimed in February that over 400 million people login Facebook month after month, and there are, on average, 130 people on their friend lists, and it still claims so. In addition, people are still consuming 500 billion minutes of time monthly on Facebook.

Facebook has also moved detailed stats on features like status updates, photos, events and Pages to the next section, “Activity on Facebook.” And while it previously listed out details on specific features like status updates, events, photos and Pages - see our February writeup for more on that - it has now grouped them together. The company says there are more than 160 million “objects” that people interact with; objects are defined as Pages, groups and events.

On the average level, people are engaged in 60 of the so-called objects. Moreover, 70 “pieces of content” (as defined by Facebook as status updates, links, notes, photos, videos and so on) are created every month.

There are as many as 25 billion “pieces of content” being shared on Facebook per month. Comparing the data with another one which was released in February, that 5 billion “pieces of content” were created per week, the number has bounced by a stunning 20 billion, if “created” and “shared” stand for the same idea. The soar is predictable, if one are aware of how Facebook is recruiting millions of people to its site every month.

Skipping over the “Global Reach” section - data here hasn’t changed aside from its name, which used to be “International Growth” - we come to the Platform section. It has some big new numbers. The first change isn’t that big, though, as the number of active applications has grown from 500,000 to 550,000.

The next news, however, is much bigger. There used to be 80,000 web sites which have added the feature of Facebook Connect. Now the number has gone up to a million. The increase it nothing surprising, but a foreseeable result of hard work. When it first launched the Like Box and plugins in late April, it announced that 300,000 sites have already taken part in the implementation while more and more companies were joining as well. The parties which are enjoying the plugins service range from blogs of lower fame to big names like CNN and other publications on the Internet.

And that’s not all. While Facebook previously said that more than 60 million people “engage with Facebook Connect” on other sites, it now says that the number is up to 150 million. Note that we’re assuming, based on Facebook’s phrasing, that this means actually using Facebook on other sites rather than just happening to load sites that have the Like Box. The reason for this qualification is that widget companies are notorious for purposefully conflating these sorts of numbers.