Exclusive: Most people use Gmail but don’t know how full their inbox is
TechRadar Pro study looks to find out how we all feel about dreaded emails
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As the year begins to end and people focus on taking a well-earned break over the Christmas holidays, it’s a good time to take stock of life, work, and love. We’re only focused on the second of those three today and specificallyemailusage.
TechRadar Prohas commissioned an exclusive poll of 500 respondents fromOnePulseshowing which email services people use and some details about how.
Surprise, surprise Gmail comes out on top.
A lot of people absolutely hate email, and with good reason. Clients, especially default clients likeAppleMail, are often slow and geared towards casual users, not power users at work.
On top of that,Slack and Teams, plus a bunch of others, have sprouted up to fulfil work-specific chat needs - even Meta has got in on the action withWorkplace.
To email or not to email
So, let’s break down the results.
According to our survey, the dominant email service is Gmail – and it’s not even close. A full 59% of respondents useGoogle’s email offerings, followed by Outlook (19.7%), Yahoo (13%),iCloud(2.9%), and others (5%).
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But what about power users? Well, they’re in the minority too. Most people (75.6%) have between one and 10,000 emails in their inbox, followed by 16.75% who have between 10,001 and 100,000, and then a rarified 7.59% have over 100,001 or more.
The story is similar for email storage: just over half (50.2%) either don’t know or don’t care how full their inbox is. The rest have up to 5GB filled (32.8%) or over 5GB (17%).
Max Slater-Robins has been writing about technology for nearly a decade at various outlets, covering the rise of the technology giants, trends in enterprise and SaaS companies, and much more besides. Originally from Suffolk, he currently lives in London and likes a good night out and walks in the countryside.
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