GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Author Graphs

Value of Java

Notes:

More respondents in the Seventh Survey (87.28%) had an opinion about the value of Java than in the Sixth Survey (81.30%). Of those who had an opinion, more than half (54.52% Seventh vs. 57.5% Sixth) saw the value of Java as mainly functional. As with the Fifth Survey, a number of people view the value of Java as mainly aesthetic or adds no value to the web (19.28% Seventh vs. 23.39% Sixth), though this number is decreasing. 13.49% think Java is revolutionary (11.15% Sixth).

Table of Data for All Categories

Value of Java	All	USA	Europe
Aesthetic	398.00 11.45%	300.00 11.32%	34.00 10.00%
Don't know	442.00 12.72%	374.00 14.11%	16.00 4.71%
Fluff	272.00 7.83%	202.00 7.62%	27.00 7.94%
Functional	1895.00 54.52%	1443.00 54.45%	202.00 59.41%
Revolutionary	469.00 13.49%	331.00 12.49%	61.00 17.94%

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