GVU's Eighth WWW User Survey Use Graphs

Reasons For Saving and Printing Documents


Notes:


Why do you save/print WWW documents that you view?
(Please check all that apply.)

Table of Data for All Categories

Reasons For Saving and Printing Documents All Male Female USA Europe 10-18 19-25 26-50 50+ Novice Intermediate Expert
Archive Docs 2493.00

34.53%

1634.00

36.17%

828.00

31.72%

2025.00

33.78%

777.00

37.98%

80.00

22.16%

396.00

31.28%

1488.00

35.59%

394.00

36.41%

760.00

32.11%

925.00

34.08%

777.00

37.98%

Distribute to Others Offline 2919.00

40.43%

1868.00

41.35%

1022.00

39.16%

2410.00

40.20%

1032.00

50.44%

128.00

35.46%

457.00

36.10%

1779.00

42.55%

450.00

41.59%

646.00

27.29%

1212.00

44.66%

1032.00

50.44%

Don t 945.00

13.09%

589.00

13.04%

343.00

13.14%

846.00

14.11%

129.00

6.30%

64.00

17.73%

154.00

12.16%

520.00

12.44%

157.00

14.51%

569.00

24.04%

234.00

8.62%

129.00

6.30%

Fear Doc Will Dissappear 1920.00

26.60%

1196.00

26.48%

706.00

27.05%

1608.00

26.82%

617.00

30.16%

84.00

23.27%

324.00

25.59%

1081.00

25.86%

313.00

28.93%

590.00

24.93%

695.00

25.61%

617.00

30.16%

Mimic Format 781.00

10.82%

563.00

12.46%

211.00

8.08%

604.00

10.08%

372.00

18.18%

45.00

12.47%

167.00

13.19%

477.00

11.41%

67.00

6.19%

102.00

4.31%

300.00

11.05%

372.00

18.18%

Other 906.00

12.55%

538.00

11.91%

353.00

13.52%

778.00

12.98%

225.00

11.00%

62.00

17.17%

154.00

12.16%

508.00

12.15%

123.00

11.37%

407.00

17.19%

259.00

9.54%

225.00

11.00%

Read Offline 3102.00

42.97%

1911.00

42.31%

1147.00

43.95%

2428.00

40.50%

1066.00

52.10%

121.00

33.52%

525.00

41.47%

1846.00

44.15%

481.00

44.45%

661.00

27.93%

1331.00

49.04%

1066.00

52.10%

Use Content 1792.00

24.82%

1107.00

24.51%

668.00

25.59%

1414.00

23.59%

656.00

32.06%

100.00

27.70%

361.00

28.52%

1014.00

24.25%

254.00

23.48%

367.00

15.50%

752.00

27.71%

656.00

32.06%

Use Offline 3914.00

54.22%

2453.00

54.31%

1417.00

54.29%

3134.00

52.28%

1419.00

69.35%

177.00

49.03%

762.00

60.19%

2287.00

54.70%

536.00

49.54%

791.00

33.42%

1660.00

61.16%

1419.00

69.35%











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