On request and by popular demand, I’ve compiled a list of facts and figures about the most professional networking site; LinkedIn. Did you know that the LinkedIn.com site was launched exactly 7 years ago, on 5 May 2003, and has 66,266,528 members at this moment?
LinkedIn corporation has currently 500 employees with its headquarters based in Mountain View, California and the European office centered in London, England. Their Customer Service center is based in Omaha, Nebraska. They also have smaller (sales) offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai and Amsterdam. The sales offices outside the USA are located in countries where there is relative high penetration or large population of users:
- Australia 1,235,574 members
- Canada 2,337,350
- India 5,380,162
- Netherlands 1,811,174
- United Kingdom 3,855,936
- United States 32,987,660
On average 36.5M people visit LinkedIn.com every month. In March 2010 they had the most visitors in one week until today: 15.1 Million. See also the following directly measured weekly stats:
The number of monthly visitors at LinkedIn.com (directly measured) keeps on growing spectacular:
The following countries are responsible for the highest (percentage of) Site Traffic:
United States 42.8%
India 13.7%
United Kingdom 6.7%
Netherlands 3.7%
Canada 2.8%
Italy 2.3%
Germany 2.3%
Spain 2.0%
Australia 1.9%
South Africa 1.4%
In the following countries the LinkedIn website is also one of the most popular and best-visited websites:
Country / Traffic rank
- Netherlands 12
- India 13
- United Kingdom 14
Denmark 16
Ireland 16- United States 17
- South Africa 17
Other interesting facts are that people visit the website in 62% of the cases from home (38% at work). Roughly 1% of the LinkedIn addicts are responsible for a staggering 34% of all visits! 62% are passers-by and responsible for 18% of visits. The audience demographics for LinkedIn.com, relative to the general internet population, looks like this:
In other words, you’ll find more middle age man with no kids and a higher income and education level than the internet average here. Let’s finish with one of the new learning videos from LinkedIn:
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Hi There,
some very interesting facts here but what I find even more interesting is the lack of usage from China and Japan.
It raises the question why have these countries not adpoted it yet?
Best Regards
Wesley Budd
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Thanks, great information.
Great info… Love that men and women are pretty much equal-opportunity LinkedIn users!
Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for taking the time to pull this information together.
Do you have any statistics on industry breakdown for the entire LinkedIn network?
Stacy Moss
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Yes, I can provide a breakdown on 148 industries. Which industry would you like to know?
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Hi,
Thanks for this info packed post on Linkedin…
I found everything I as looking for…
Thanks,
Billee