GVU's Eighth WWW User Survey Privacy Graphs

What Information Ought to be Collected per Page Request

Notes:

For this question, respondents could choose more than one answer. Across almost all categories, the percentage of users who agreed that an item should be recorded has decreased from the Seventh survey. The majority of respondents agreed that the page requested (Eighth 65%, Seventh 74%) and the time of the request (Eighth 62%, Seventh 71%) should be collected by web sites. 18% of respondents felt that none of these should be recorded (a choice not offered in the last survey). It is somewhat suprising that more people are opposed to automatically collecting this kind of information than are opposed to giving out demographic information (See: Terms and Conditions for Revealing Demographic Information). This may not be related to the nature of the information -- it might be an issue of control over the information and knowing when it's being collected. Males, European respondents, and experts (groups which have a large overlap) are more comfortable with different kinds of information being collected. Those over 50 are least opposed to having their email addresses collected while experts are most opposed to it.

Table of Data for All Categories

What Information Ought to be Collected per Page Request

All

Male

USA

50+

Intermediate

5.11%

4.34%

6.29%

5.75%

6.00

1.45%

3.00

0.91%

1.53%

4.96%

9.07%

10.93%

2.09%

1.31%

Email Address

19.38%

18.65%

20.18%

19.84%

11.33%

18.84%

14.58%

17.60%

29.18%

26.68%

17.89%

11.02%

15.72%

16.70%

14.01%

14.41%

26.51%

12.77%

17.64%

15.47%

16.34%

12.79%

16.95%

17.88%

23.71%

27.33%

17.81%

22.12%

35.42%

21.58%

29.34%

23.80%

20.11%

13.68%

23.84%

37.29%

None

17.70%

17.96%

17.25%

18.27%

17.31%

16.14%

14.70%

17.22%

21.26%

18.07%

19.91%

13.81%

25.52%

29.87%

18.67%

24.13%

38.07%

28.57%

31.50%

27.21%

16.81%

14.40%

27.00%

39.06%

Requested Page

65.06%

65.74%

64.09%

63.65%

72.77%

67.78%

70.03%

66.48%

57.70%

54.43%

66.72%

77.33%

Screen Size

8.99%

11.00%

5.80%

7.87%

17.83%

11.55%

12.51%

9.43%

4.34%

3.64%

9.19%

16.16%

18.39%

21.14%

13.97%

17.12%

29.16%

16.41%

20.16%

19.73%

13.69%

10.80%

18.42%

28.84%

Time of Request

62.37%

64.33%

59.11%

61.03%

70.36%

62.61%

70.03%

63.30%

55.52%

50.61%

64.30%

75.56%

Which Browser

37.83%

42.45%

30.68%

35.87%

53.73%

41.03%

47.43%

39.77%

25.02%

23.30%

40.71%

54.25%

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