GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey Webmaster Graphs

Network Connection Speed

Notes:

A third of the Webmasters (33.64%) report that the connection of their server to the Internet is 1 Mb/sec. The next most common connection speed is 28 Kb/sec (14.53%) followed by 10 Mb/sec (11.88%), 128 Kb/sec (9.72%) and 45 Mb/sec (9.14%). This pattern of a large number of users with fast 1 Mb/sec connections and the rest spread out fairly equally on the slower and faster connections is continuance of a trend towards slower server connection speeds. In the Fifth Survey, 37.1% had 1Mb/sec connections, with the next most common being 10Mb/sec (19.8%). Modems accounted for under 10% of the connection speeds in the Fifth Survey compared to close to 18% in the Sixth Survey. In the Third Survey, the most common server connection speed was 10 Mb/sec (38.94%) followed by 1 Mb/sec with 12.88% and 56 Kb/sec with 11.08%.i In the Second Survey (October 1994), 54% reported connection speeds of 1 Mb/sec!

Table of Data for All Categories

Network Connection Speed	All	USA	Europe
100m	29.00 2.41%	14.00 1.78%	8.00 6.56%
10m	143.00 11.88%	84.00 10.67%	26.00 21.31%
128k	117.00 9.72%	61.00 7.75%	16.00 13.11%
1m	405.00 33.64%	324.00 41.17%	20.00 16.39%
28k	175.00 14.53%	102.00 12.96%	10.00 8.20%
45m	110.00 9.14%	88.00 11.18%	10.00 8.20%
56k	91.00 7.56%	51.00 6.48%	18.00 14.75%
Over100m	19.00 1.58%	12.00 1.52%	0.00 0.00%
Under 28k	27.00 2.24%	11.00 1.40%	3.00 2.46%
Unsure	88.00 7.31%	40.00 5.08%	11.00 9.02%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280