20 Facebook Stats
Facebook Usage & Market Share
1. Facebook has 1.28 billion monthly active users (MAU)
2. Facebook has 802 million daily active users (DAU)
3. Facebook has 609 million daily active mobile users
4. Facebook accounts for 17% of ALL mobile usage
5. Monthly time spent per person on Facebook smartphone app = 7h 43min
6. There 13.2 million Australian Facebookers
7. There are 2.6 million New Zealanders on Facebook
8. 6.8 million Aussie and Kiwi Baby Boomers (over 45's) use Facebook!
9. April 2014 weekly Australian visits to Facebook 117m (SMH 6.5m)
10. Facebook is NZ's second most popular website after Google
Facebook Advertising & Revenue
11. Facebook accounted for a 5.7% share of all global digital Ad. revenues in 2013
12. It received 16.91% of worldwide mobile ad spending
13. Facebook marketing spend doubled in Q4 of 2013, quarter on quarter
14. Holiday competition drove up Facebook advertising costs with CPC rising 21%
15. Facebook Ad. performance improved though with click-through rates rising 10%
16. The number of Ad. impressions were up 51% and clicks up 66%
17. Revenue attributable to Facebook Ads rose 60% from Q3
18. Facebook Q1 2014 earnings hit $2.5 billion (forecast of $2.36 billion)
19. Total Ad. revenue hit $2.27 billion, up 82% from a year ago!
Killer Facebook Content & Performance Benchmarks
20. Payments revenue including games and apps reached $237 million (Q1 2014)
21. Facebook has 46% of total global consumer brand social sharing
22. The ideal interaction being driven by posts is between 100 to 119 characters
23. Questions in Facebook posts tend to drive interaction up by 10 to 20%
24. 54% of Facebook Page posts in 2013 were photos
25. Video posts received the greatest number of interactions from Facebook users
26. Facebook Page performance benchmarks by audience size:
 
Facebook Page
Fan Threshold
Average No.
of Fans
Average Interaction Rate People talking about this Rate
1 - 1k 350 1.29 2.72
1k - 10k 3,996 0.46 2.84
10k - 100k 37,638 0.34 4.06
100k - 1m 367,349 0.16 3.57
1m - 10m 2,954,041 0.12 2.66
10m + 22,401,161 0.11 1.59