GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey Usage Graphs

Image Loading

Notes:

This is a new question to the surveys, but one that we've been meaning to ask for quite some time due to the numerous queries we field about how often people surf without images being loaded for each page automatically. This is a big concern for graphic designers who are faced with the opposing goals of producing media rich content that everyone can access quickly. Most people surf with images loaded automatically as 85.40% report turning image loading off under 25% of the time. The remaining 14.57% report not loading image anywhere from 26 to 100% of the time. As one might expect due to the slow transoceanic connection between US and Europe, more Europeans turn image loading off. Differences between gender and age were not observed.

Table of Data for All Categories

Image Loading	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
26-50	748.00 7.24%	457.00 6.81%	248.00 8.13%	543.00 6.72%	67.00 11.30%	150.00 8.61%	418.00 6.98%	73.00 6.34%
51-75	272.00 2.63%	172.00 2.56%	80.00 2.62%	188.00 2.33%	22.00 3.71%	52.00 2.98%	140.00 2.34%	33.00 2.86%
Once per month	1.00 0.01%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%	0.00 0.00%
Over 75	486.00 4.70%	313.00 4.67%	143.00 4.69%	313.00 3.87%	46.00 7.76%	72.00 4.13%	275.00 4.59%	56.00 4.86%
Under 25	8823.00 85.40%	5764.00 85.94%	2579.00 84.56%	7042.00 87.09%	457.00 77.07%	1469.00 84.28%	5151.00 86.07%	990.00 85.94%

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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