GVU's Browser Usage Survey Form
Copyright 1995
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0415
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Usage Restrictions
On average, how often do you use your WWW browser?
By this, we mean using your browser for a specific set of tasks or activities. We do not mean how many times you launch your browser per day.
9 times/day or greater
5 to 8 times/day
1 to 4 times/day
A few times a week
Once a week
Once a month
On average, how many
hours a week
do you use your WWW browser?
0 to 1 hours/week
2 to 4 hours/week
4 to 6 hours/week
7 to 9 hours/week
10 to 20 hours/week
21 hours/week or greater
What are the primary uses of your WWW browser?
(Please check all that apply.)
Academic Research
Business Research
Browsing/Surfing
Educational
Shopping
Entertainment
Work/Business
Other
Which of the following connection speeds do you primarily use connect to the Internet? (round up if necessary)
If you access the Internet at home via a commercial provider, choose the speed from you to your Internet provider.
Less than 14.4 Kb/sec (e.g. SLIP/PPP,Prodigy)
14.4 Kb/sec (e.g. SLIP/PPP, Prodigy)
28.8 Kb/sec (e.g. SLIP/PPP)
56 Kb/sec
128 Kb/sec
1 Mb/sec (e.g. Ethernet)
10 Mb/sec (e.g. Ethernet)
45 Mb/sec (e.g. Ethernet)
Faster than 45 Mb/sec (e.g. FDDI)
Do not know
Would you primarily classify yourself as a search, text, or visually oriented user?
Prefer to Query Sites/Databases (Keyword Search)
Prefer to View Textual Pages (Text)
Prefer Images, etc. (Visual)
People browse the Web in many different ways. Please put a check against each of the following, if it accurately describes how you like to travel/browse across the Web.
Go To Links from My Hotlist/Bookmark
Type in the URL I Want to Go To
Go From One Link to Another, Page to Page
- that is, a happy-go-lucky browser
Locate the URL Through Search Pages
- like Lycos, WebCrawler, etc.
Locate the URL thought Meta-Indices
- like Yahoo, NCSA's What's New, etc.
How do you find out about WWW pages/sites?
(Please check all that apply.)
Newsgroups
Friends
Magazines
Signatures at End of Email Messages
Newspapers
Follow URLs from other Web pages
Other Sources
Approximately how many sites (pages/locations) does your hotlist/bookmark have?
I Don't Have a Clue
I Don't Use Hotlists/Bookmarks
1 to 10 pages
11 to 50 pages
51 to 100 pages
101 pages or more
How frequently do you
save to disk
WWW documents that you view?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
How frequently do you
print
WWW documents that you view?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
Media Type Preferences
Web sites provide a variety of resources. Please indicate how much you like/dislike a site which...
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
enables keyword searches of document in its collection
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
provides many links to other related Web sites (meta indices)
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
relies heavily on vidoes/movies
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
relies heavily on embedded images
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
relies heavily on sound/audio files
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Dislike
2
3
4
5 -- Neutral
6
7
8
9 -- Like
relies exclusively on text
?
Browser Usage
The WWW browser is a versatile tool. Please indicate how often you use the Web browser for each of the following:
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
instead of other/default Gopher and FTP browsers?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
read network newsgroups
?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access weather information?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
to access information about commercial products/services?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access government documents?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access reference materials?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access research reports?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access financial information?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
access on-line newspapers/magazines?
Not Answered - 1 to 9
1 -- Never
2
3
4
5 -- Sometimes
6
7
8
9 -- Regularly
go shopping?
Please add any comments here.
For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu
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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280