Hotmail Stats

These Hotmail stats were presented at the PDC to give an indication of the scale Hotmail operates at:

• ~200 million active users

• 3.3 billion inbound emails a day

* 1.5 billion blocked at the router * 1.0 billion deleted as spam (never hits the user’s mailbox) * 0.5 billion sent to the junk folder

• Over 100 million messages sent a day
• 80 – 100 milllion logins per day

• 5000 peak logins per second

Woah!