Since 2013, data analytics group Domo has released the "Data Never Sleeps" report every year, showing what is happening on the Internet at every moment throughout the year. These statistics are a fascinating snapshot of internet culture and data-generating trends. Most categories appear annually. For example, users sent 241 million emails per minute this year, up from 231.4 million in 2022. People search Google 6.3 million times per minute, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%.

Other statistics listed by Domo are more specific to the year being studied, or are new categories necessary for new technologies, services, or trends. For example, pop culture icon Taylor Swift tops this year’s list with 69.4 million songs streamed per minute. ChatGPT, another new company on the list, has 6,944 prompts per minute. The number of queries throughout the year reached a staggering 3.6 billion.

"This year's survey results reflect a rapidly changing, fast-paced digital environment, exacerbated by the rapid adoption of AI models like ChatGPT," said Domo founder and CEO Josh James. "Data drives everything we do, from a quick search or email online to checking the latest headlines on the way to work."

Every 60 seconds, users spend a staggering 25.1 million hours online, a figure equivalent to our global society spending more than 1.3 trillion hours scrolling every year.

The constant complaints and controversy about Elon Musk acquiring and "ruining" Twitter don't seem to be slowing down activity on the service now known as "X." This year, about 360,000 posts will appear every time the hand on the "X" is swiped, which is 12,800 more posts per minute than in 2022.

Domo said that in 2023, viewers of the video site will watch 43 years' worth of content every 60 seconds. Interestingly, despite the surge in streaming services, this number is down from 1 million hours per minute in 2022 (or 114 years).

There is also a huge amount of money transactions on the Internet. Amazon users spend $455,000 every minute purchasing items from the massive retailer. However, Venmo has proven to be more popular, with users exchanging $463,000 through the service every minute. The year-on-year growth rates of the two were 2.7% and 5.8% respectively. However, neither compares to the current bond market, where investors trade $398 million worth of Treasuries online every minute.