GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey Usage Graphs

Frequency Of Use

Notes:

For this question, we mean how many time you use the Web for a specific set of tasks or activities. We do not mean how many times the browser is launched per day. Usage remained quite consistent with the Fifth Survey. 45.92% of respondents use the Web 1 to 4 times a day, 35.96% use it more frequently, and 18.1% use it less frequently. This stability in the past year indicates that the Web has settled into regular and steady daily use, with 81.88% reporting using their browser at least once a day in the Sixth Survey.

Female users are less likely to be heavy daily users than males and the 19-25 age group tends to be the heaviest users with the elder group being the least frequent users. Still, 77.52% of the users 50+ yr old report using their browsers daily.

Table of Data for All Categories

Frequency of Use	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
1-4/dy	4744.00 45.92%	3070.00 45.77%	1386.00 45.44%	3762.00 46.52%	218.00 36.76%	697.00 39.99%	2753.00 46.00%	603.00 52.34%
5-8/dy	1638.00 15.86%	1123.00 16.74%	440.00 14.43%	1320.00 16.32%	85.00 14.33%	300.00 17.21%	965.00 16.12%	167.00 14.50%
Few Times/wk	1684.00 16.30%	900.00 13.42%	684.00 22.43%	1250.00 15.46%	118.00 19.90%	263.00 15.09%	905.00 15.12%	242.00 21.01%
Once/mo	47.00 0.45%	9.00 0.13%	35.00 1.15%	34.00 0.42%	3.00 0.51%	13.00 0.75%	16.00 0.27%	5.00 0.43%
Once/wk	141.00 1.36%	47.00 0.70%	89.00 2.92%	92.00 1.14%	12.00 2.02%	42.00 2.41%	59.00 0.99%	12.00 1.04%
Over 9/dy	2077.00 20.10%	1558.00 23.23%	416.00 13.64%	1628.00 20.13%	157.00 26.48%	428.00 24.56%	1287.00 21.50%	123.00 10.68%

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