The site has managed to keep interest high among its users

Feb 2, 2012 13:31 GMT  ·  By

Along with its IPO filling, Facebook revealed some interesting numbers about it and not only financial stats. It provided a user growth chart going back a few years, revealing that it had 845 million monthly active users last December.

That's up from 800 million in September, the last official number. At the end of 2010, it had 608 million monthly active users. A year before that there were only 360 million.

While Facebook may not be growing as fast as it once did, it's certainly seeing huge numbers considering its size. What's more, Facebook is reporting active users, not registered users like many other websites would do.

With 845 million people using Facebook every month, the site has well over one billion signed up.

Equally impressive, perhaps even more so, are the daily active users. 483 million people visited Facebook each day in December last year. That's a huge number any way you look at it.

Half of Facebook's active users, again not registered users, visit the site every single day. The site had 327 million daily active visitors at the end of 2010 and 185 million at the end of 2009.

Facebook managed to keep over 50 percent of its monthly active users to come back every day for most of its recent history. That's something that few sites can boast, let alone, one of the biggest if not the biggest in the world.

It remains to be seen whether this rate can be maintained in 2012 and beyond. Clearly, Facebook has many more places to grow. While it is the largest social network in most countries it's available in, there are a few holdouts. But even in the places where it's already popular, it still has room to get bigger.