GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey General Graphs

Location

Notes:

For classification of location by major geographical location, 73.4% of the respondents were from the US, 10.8% from Europe and 8.4% from Canada & Mexico. Compared to the Third Survey which was run one year ago (80.6% from the US, 9.8% from Europe, and 5.8% from Canada & Mexico), this represents a significant shift towards less of a US dominance in Web users.

Additionally, notable increases occurred in most of the other geographical areas like Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and Central & South America. Responses were received from all the continents.

Notes:

As evident from the Gender analysis, the US has percentage-wise more female users than all other locations. Over 80% of the female users were from the US, with 70.3 of the male users being form the US.

Notes:

The vast majority of elderly users are located in the US (83.4%), more so than the other age groups (74.9% 26-50 yr old and 67.1% 19-25 yr old). Besides the US, the largest concentration of younger users (19-25 yr old) is in Europe (16.6%).

Table of Data for All Categories

location All Male Female USA Europe 19-25 26-50 50+

africa 52
0.44%
44
0.55%
8
0.22%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
11
0.40%
32
0.46%
2
0.21%

antarctica 14
0.12%
11
0.14%
3
0.08%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
4
0.15%
6
0.09%
2
0.21%

asia 212
1.81%
167
2.08%
45
1.22%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
48
1.75%
126
1.81%
12
1.23%

central_america 13
0.11%
9
0.11%
4
0.11%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
3
0.11%
9
0.13%
1
0.10%

europe 1270
10.82%
1077
13.39%
193
5.23%
0
0.00%
1270
100.00%
453
16.56%
723
10.40%
25
2.57%

middle_east 66
0.56%
55
0.68%
11
0.30%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
19
0.69%
27
0.39%
5
0.51%

north_america_cm 990
8.44%
662
8.23%
328
8.89%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
228
8.33%
554
7.97%
87
8.93%

north_america_usa 8609
73.36%
5652
70.25%
2957
80.11%
8609
100.00%
0
0.00%
1837
67.14%
5206
74.90%
812
83.37%

oceania 426
3.63%
302
3.75%
124
3.36%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
108
3.95%
222
3.19%
25
2.57%

south_america 68
0.58%
54
0.67%
14
0.38%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
21
0.77%
36
0.52%
2
0.21%

west_indies 16
0.14%
12
0.15%
4
0.11%
0
0.00%
0
0.00%
4
0.15%
10
0.14%
1
0.10%

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