GVU's Eighth WWW User Survey Use Graphs

Navigation Services

Notes:

For this question, respondents could choose more than one answer. Yahoo is frequently visited by 84% of our respondents. However, since the survey is advertised on the Yahoo site (among others), this number may be artificially high. On the other hand, other sources have established Yahoo as one of the most visited sites on the web so it is not surprising that a high percentage have visited it in the past six months. Next most popular are the major search engines: AltaVista (67%), Excite (66%), Infoseek (60%) and Lycos (59%). European respondents favor AltaVista over the other search engines more strongly than their US counterparts. Older users are more likely to use specialized email/address search services such as 411, Bigfoot, and WhoWhere than younger users. All three levels of experience report using Yahoo more than any other navigation service, but novices are most likely to use Yahoo and Excite, intermediates use Infoseek, Lycos and AltaVista, while experts mainly use AltaVista.

Table of Data for All Categories

Navigation Services

All

Male

USA

50+

Intermediate

411

37.36%

38.08%

36.63%

40.82%

34.75%

29.92%

28.28%

39.23%

43.90%

44.32%

33.75%

34.75%

AOL NetFind

12.30%

11.03%

14.60%

13.48%

9.73%

22.16%

11.37%

11.98%

11.18%

13.14%

13.60%

9.73%

67.32%

69.69%

64.02%

67.22%

72.04%

64.82%

65.64%

68.52%

69.50%

58.72%

72.03%

72.04%

22.16%

21.34%

23.91%

23.37%

19.99%

17.45%

18.56%

22.29%

27.54%

24.12%

22.40%

19.99%

1.54%

1.28%

1.99%

1.72%

4.00

0.20%

5.00

1.39%

0.87%

1.32%

2.50%

3.97%

0.44%

4.00

0.20%

66.12%

65.40%

68.16%

68.96%

58.75%

70.91%

61.85%

66.08%

71.35%

71.86%

67.43%

58.75%

GTE SuperPages

8.85%

7.97%

10.57%

10.16%

8.26%

5.26%

8.69%

9.30%

8.50%

8.70%

9.62%

8.26%

34.26%

36.88%

30.19%

34.28%

37.68%

37.12%

32.15%

35.30%

34.66%

27.29%

38.21%

37.68%

60.27%

59.95%

61.42%

61.62%

57.62%

68.42%

62.24%

59.58%

60.54%

56.44%

66.18%

57.62%

58.51%

59.31%

57.89%

59.47%

57.87%

63.99%

59.56%

58.00%

60.17%

52.68%

64.81%

57.87%

17.66%

18.38%

16.67%

17.23%

17.60%

19.39%

18.88%

16.65%

18.48%

19.73%

16.14%

17.60%

Web Crawler

46.14%

45.58%

47.51%

47.81%

41.01%

53.46%

45.73%

45.64%

46.67%

47.78%

48.97%

41.01%

23.09%

20.92%

26.97%

24.30%

21.26%

20.50%

21.41%

23.13%

26.25%

24.63%

23.25%

21.26%

84.13%

84.13%

85.02%

85.92%

77.13%

88.09%

84.52%

83.21%

87.43%

90.58%

84.64%

77.13%

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