Did you know 52.7% of global internet users access the internet via mobile devices and nearly 80 percent of internet usage will be mobile by 2018. Check out our infographic for comparison between mobile and desktop internet usage and latest statistics and trends.
Infographic by GO Globe Hong Kong Web Design Company
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Estimated Global mobile data traffic (in exabytes per month)
| Year | Traffic (in exabytes per month) |
| 2016 | 6.2 |
| 2017 | 9.9 |
| 2018 | 14.9 |
| 2019 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 30.6 |
Mobile and tablet devices internet usage exceeds desktop for first time worldwide in Oct 2016 and accounted for 51.3% of internet usage worldwide compared to 48.7% by desktop.
Mobile devices now represent 65 percent of all digital media time whereas desktop accounts for only 35% of digital media time spent.
Share of content category time spent by platform
| Content Category | Mobile Devices | Desktop |
| Portal | 69% | 31% |
| Business/Finance | 58% | 42% |
| Entertainment/News | 51% | 49% |
| Health Information | 46% | 54% |
| News / Information | 44% | 56% |
| Sports | 39% | 61% |
| Retail | 38% | 62% |
| Lifestyle | 36% | 64% |
| Personals | 23% | 77% |
| Social Networking | 21% | 79% |
| Online Gaming | 12% | 88% |
| Photos | 8% | 92% |
| Maps | 6% | 94% |
Mobile advertising spend is projected to account for 60.4% of all digital advertising spend by 2016 and 72.2% of all digital advertising spend by 2019
