GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey General Graphs

How You Heard About Survey

Notes:

Respondents could check more than one answer for this question. Also, a new category was added in the Sixth Survey: search engines. As with all previous Surveys, most users came to the Survey because they saw a link on another web page (54.04%). This is a useful data point for those trying to increase the traffic on their own web sites--having links from other (perhaps related) sites can be very effective in drawing traffic to a site. The next most common way of coming to the survey was through a search engine (12.65%). Again this is a technique which other sites can easily take advantage of. Other effective means include: Usenet news (9.35%), our www-surveying mailing list which reminds users to participate (6.21%), and word-of-mouth via friends (5.63%). Approximately 14% of respondents reported hearing about the survey through "other methods" that were not included in the list of possible responses.

Table of Data for All Categories

How You Heard About Survey	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
Friend	1103.00 5.63%	821.00 6.10%	282.00 4.60%	872.00 5.56%	103.00 7.69%	249.00 6.69%	660.00 5.62%	103.00 4.29%
Mailing List	1216.00 6.21%	956.00 7.11%	260.00 4.24%	909.00 5.80%	149.00 11.13%	173.00 4.65%	825.00 7.03%	128.00 5.33%
Others	2790.00 14.25%	2025.00 15.05%	765.00 12.48%	2305.00 14.70%	159.00 11.87%	472.00 12.67%	1716.00 14.62%	299.00 12.45%
Printed Media	377.00 1.93%	290.00 2.16%	87.00 1.42%	253.00 1.61%	71.00 5.30%	81.00 2.18%	223.00 1.90%	42.00 1.75%
Remebered	280.00 1.43%	207.00 1.54%	73.00 1.19%	205.00 1.31%	37.00 2.76%	51.00 1.37%	181.00 1.54%	25.00 1.04%
Search Engine	2476.00 12.64%	1447.00 10.76%	1029.00 16.79%	1883.00 12.01%	175.00 13.07%	524.00 14.07%	1346.00 11.47%	312.00 12.99%
Usenet News	1831.00 9.35%	1291.00 9.60%	540.00 8.81%	1508.00 9.62%	90.00 6.72%	231.00 6.20%	1174.00 10.00%	299.00 12.45%
WWW Page	10582.00 54.04%	7126.00 52.97%	3456.00 56.39%	8571.00 54.68%	631.00 47.12%	2185.00 58.67%	6166.00 52.53%	1327.00 55.25%

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