GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey Author Graphs

Sources Consulted in Learning HTML

Notes:

For this question, users were allowed to mark more than one answer.

Online documentation was the most popular source and was consulted by 81.6% of respondents. The number of users consulting books about HTML rose again slightly from 44.5% to 50.9%.

More European respondents reported using online sources (90.9%) and fewer reported using books (36.2%).

Table of Data for All Categories

sources.books All USA Europe

books 1638
50.90%
894
52.01%
119
36.17%

friends 905
28.12%
468
27.23%
84
25.53%

guru 605
18.80%
327
19.02%
52
15.81%

online 2624
81.54%
1438
83.65%
299
90.88%

other 560
17.40%
291
16.93%
52
15.81%

tutorial 394
12.24%
181
10.53%
29
8.81%

For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.
GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280