Interesting Email Facts

On Sunday morning I went into Gmail to check my email and I was presented with over 700 spam emails in my inbox as well as 27,000 emails in my spam folder.

I decided it was time to find some cool and interesting stats on spam and email in general, have a look at the results below.

Spam Facts

• 60 billion e-mails are sent daily
• 90% of all email is spam
• 64% of spam servers are in Taiwan, 23% are in the US

User Facts

• The average business user receives 25 email messages per day; increasing 10% per year
• The average business user spends 2.6 hours per day reading and responding to email
• 38% of employees have sent an e-mail without the required attachment
• 34.1% of users open an e-mail by 5 pm
• It takes 77 minutes a week for an employee to manage their mailbox, such as cleaning out old messages and filing old messages or attachments
• It takes 27 minutes for a user to delete or archive enough messages in order to be able to use the e-mail system again after hitting a “quota limit”
• It takes 8.2 minutes for a user to find an email that is older than two weeks

Email Marketing Facts

• E-mail click through ratio is best on Wednesdays, reaching 3.9%
• 60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors

Age Facts

• 75% of adults prefer e-mail to IM, 75% of teens prefer IM to e-mail
• Less than one-fifth of teenagers use e-mail for communication

Extremely Scary Facts

• 60% of an organisations’ intellectual property is in the e-mail system
• The typical user stores more than one-half of his/her critical business information within the confines of the e-mail system
• 38% of US and UK companies monitor and read e-mails written by employees