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Nielsen NetRatings: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
Headcount: http://www.headcount.com --
Provides statistics on Internet and Web connectivity and usage by region,
country and language.
StatMarket: http://www.statmarket.com/ -- Provides
statistics about various aspects of the global Internet market,
including details on browsers, operating systems, Internet traffic, repeat
visitors, monitor resolutions and more.
Syracuse: http://iis.syr.edu/webeval/index.html (see especially the technical
evaluation section) -- some work using web server hit statistics
to study how people have used websites and evaluate their usability.
http://www.ripe.net/ - domain statistics for european countries
http://www.isc.org/ds/ - global domain statistics (conducted by network
wizards).
http://www.internetindicators.com/index.html - general facts about the
Internet
http://www.euromktg.com/globstats/ - language-related indicators.
http://www.nua.net/surveys/ - collection of surveys about the Internet and
its
users
Nua index of surveys: http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi
http://www.allnetresearch.com/
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Total 1998-1999 | Estimated Growth Per Day | |
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World population | | |
Web pages | | |
Devices accessing the Web | | |
Worldwide Internet users | | |
Hosts | | |
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*Source: U.S Bureau of the Census, NEC Research, IDC, Internet Software Consortium, Network Solutions, Online Computer Library Center
The size of the Internet is currently estimated at more than 800 million Web
pages. (July 1999 Nature Study: http://www.wwwmetrics.com/)
The largest Internet search engine database (AltaVista at 250 million pages)
covers only 31.3 percent of the Internet's 800 million plus pages.
(Search Engine Watch: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html)
The growth of the Internet's infrastructure has roughly doubled each year
since 1981, as shown in the table below, which tracks the number of domain
names. (Internet Software Consortium: http://www.isc.org/ds/)
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In 1998, the number of e-mail messages sent in the U.S. was 9.4 billion each
day-that's 3.4 trillion e-mail messages during the year compared with the
107 billion pieces of first-class mail sent in the U.S.
eMarketer survey (http://www.emarketer.com/estats/020199_email.html)
Ninety-six percent of all commercial e-mail messages qualify as SPAM.
eMarketer survey (http://www.emarketer.com/estats/020199_email.html)
Yahoo! accounts for more than 56 percent of all search engine referrals.
(StatMarket.com: http://www.statmarket.com/SM?c=WeekStat)
There are currently 100 million plus American adults using the Internet,
which is more than half of the adult population. (The Strategis Group:
http://strategis.commnow.com/allpubs.lasso?-database=reports.fp3&-layout=main&-response=detail.lasso&-recID=47&-search)
The number of Internet users worldwide currently stands at more than 150
million. (The Computer Industry Almanac Inc: http://www.c-i-a.com/199904iu.htm)
Forty-eight percent of U.S. participants polled reported that they went
online to access e-mail. (PriceWaterhouseCoopers' 1999 Consumer Technology survey: http://www.pwcglobal.com/extweb/ncpressrelease.nsf/DocID/E08266B81BE91F9A85
2568010063B693?OpenDocument)
The average Internet user only views a page for about one minute.
(Nielsen/NetRatings Internet study:
http://209.249.142.16/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.usageweekly)
Seventy-seven percent of Internet users reported that they hesitated when
considering an online purchase due to problems with product pricing.
(NUA Internet Survey:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905355234&rel=true)
The top two problems reported in using the Web were Slow Ads at 62.3 percent
and page loading Speed at 61.4 percent. The fourth most common complaint
concerning Internet access involved site registration at 49.7 percent.
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/use/q11.htm
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More than 60 percent of Webmasters think that it is important to have a
strategy for linking to other Web sites.
GVU's Tenth WWW User Survey
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/webmaster/q
51.htm)
E-mail communications are now on equal footing with telephone
communications. (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/technology/
q105.htm)
Internet users report that they preferred accessing new Web sites with links
from other Web pages (84.8 percent) and search engines (88.3 percent).
(http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/use/q52.htm)
Seventy-five percent of Internet users are willing to use a credit card
online.
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/privacy/q08
.htm)
A majority of Internet users (86 percent) have attended college. (http://www.survey.net/inet1r.html)
The average banner-ad click-through rate for the first week of November
(1999) was just 0.31 percent. (Nielsen//NetRatings: Average Internet Usage:
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/press_releases/pr_111199.htm)
The top 50 visited Web sites average main pages of 47.8K in size.
(http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/478.html)
Non-banner online advertising on the Internet is employed by 84 percent of
advertisers, and 60 percent have used e-mail as a marketing tool.
(Online Share of Ad Budgets on the Rise:
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,1087,12_228151,00.html)
Seventy-five percent of online consumers abandoned shopping carts on
e-commerce sites. (http://www.bizrate.com/press/press_room/release_49.xpml)
Fifty-six percent of U.S. companies will sell their products online by 2000,
up from 24 percent in 1998. (NUA Internet Surveys:
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905354818&rel=true)
Online advertising rose sharply in 1999 with revenues growing to $934.4
million in the second quarter. (Internet Advertising Bureau: http://www.iab.net/adrevenue/2q99revenues.html)
Online sales are projected to reach an estimated $176.4 billion in 1999.
(October 1999 Internet Economy Indicators: http://www.InternetIndicators.com/executive_summary_oct_99.html)
Consumers and businesses will place more than 2 billion orders over the
Internet this year. (Forrester Research:
http://www.forrester.com/ER/Press/Release/0,1769,160,FF.html)
Barter deals made up almost 7 percent ($693 million) of 1999's first quarter
advertising revenues. (PricewaterhouseCoopers survey on The Standard.com:
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,7786,00.html)
The worldwide business-to-consumer e-commerce market is estimated to reach
$31.2 billion in 1999 and explode to more than $380 billion by 2003. (GartnerGroup's Dataquest:
http://gartner12.gartnerweb.com/dq/static/about/press/pr-b9957.html)
China's year-end e-commerce revenue forecast for the end of 2001 is $847
million. (Headcount.com:
http://www.headcount.com/globalsource/ecommerce/index.htm?choice=China)
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