GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Technology Graphs

Use of Internet Technologies

Notes:

With the veritable explosion in the number of new internet technologies available, it is interesting to see which are getting used. Viewing web pages with Java/JavaScript in them is quite common (68%) as is using a chat room (61%). More than half of respondents have used the internet's audio capabilities (55%). Push technologies (such as Pointcast) have been used by a quarter of respondents. Males have generally used more technologies than female, with the exception of chat rooms which the same percentage of males and females have used. A higher percentage of younger users have used chat rooms compared to other groups (86%). Users between ages 19-50 are most likely to have used other technologies. The more years you have been on the internet, the more likely that you have used different internet technologies, except for chat which has been used by all experience levels.

Table of Data for All Categories

Use of Internet Technologies

All

Male

USA

50+

Intermediate

3 D

18.64%

21.81%

13.30%

17.14%

30.69%

21.24%

24.87%

19.41%

10.21%

5.23%

19.77%

33.59%

55.41%

61.82%

45.08%

55.02%

60.00%

56.18%

60.45%

58.78%

41.68%

40.55%

57.00%

72.22%

Certificate

10.02%

12.38%

6.11%

9.38%

15.64%

9.14%

11.46%

11.17%

5.92%

3.08%

9.26%

19.72%

Chat

61.05%

60.81%

61.93%

62.01%

53.47%

86.83%

72.43%

60.88%

42.97%

60.89%

62.05%

60.51%

10.76%

8.65%

14.05%

11.23%

6.73%

6.45%

5.92%

8.31%

23.50%

21.86%

7.16%

1.76%

IFax

9.57%

9.77%

9.02%

8.61%

16.44%

8.06%

10.86%

9.57%

8.92%

5.66%

11.20%

11.82%

11.22%

12.82%

8.59%

10.49%

15.45%

13.17%

15.96%

11.06%

7.12%

4.72%

12.51%

17.53%

Java Script

68.51%

72.51%

62.08%

66.50%

82.57%

72.58%

77.00%

71.53%

52.32%

40.63%

77.57%

90.61%

23.49%

26.45%

18.84%

23.24%

28.12%

30.38%

29.36%

23.61%

15.69%

13.51%

22.95%

36.97%

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%

0.00

0.00%

0.00

0.00%

0.00

0.00%

0.00

0.00%

Push

25.03%

29.51%

17.65%

24.01%

34.85%

20.97%

27.94%

28.01%

15.18%

6.71%

27.10%

44.93%

7.60%

8.74%

5.54%

6.88%

13.66%

6.72%

9.36%

8.37%

3.77%

1.95%

7.02%

15.15%

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