GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey General Graphs

Primary Computing Platform

Notes:

For the fourth straight survey (two years), over half of the respondents (64.54% Seventh vs. 65.91% Sixth) use some flavor of Windows (3.1, 95, or NT) as their primary computing platform. This percentage is up strongly from the Fifth Survey (58.6%) as well as the Third Survey (61.5%). Most notably, the percentage of those using Win95 has increased from 28.5% in the Fifth to 42.9% in the Sixth to 47.88% in the Seventh. The remaining users are mainly Apple users (25.59% Seventh vs. 25.85% Sixth). The other operating systems of the world (UNIX, VMS, etc.) are each used by less than 4% of the respondents. In GVU's First WWW User Survey, conducted in January 1994, over 90% of the users reported UNIX as their primary computing platform! Female and older users are more likely to user some flavor of Windows.

Table of Data for All Categories

Primary Computing Platform	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
DOS	252.00 1.29%	155.00 1.15%	97.00 1.58%	197.00 1.26%	19.00 1.42%	53.00 1.42%	114.00 0.97%	40.00 1.67%
Don't Know	135.00 0.69%	31.00 0.23%	104.00 1.70%	116.00 0.74%	5.00 0.37%	39.00 1.05%	39.00 0.33%	6.00 0.25%
Macintosh	5011.00 25.59%	3923.00 29.16%	1088.00 17.75%	4209.00 26.85%	278.00 20.76%	839.00 22.53%	3218.00 27.42%	562.00 23.40%
NT	953.00 4.87%	742.00 5.52%	211.00 3.44%	707.00 4.51%	122.00 9.11%	242.00 6.50%	599.00 5.10%	57.00 2.37%
OS2	404.00 2.06%	368.00 2.74%	36.00 0.59%	281.00 1.79%	52.00 3.88%	49.00 1.32%	270.00 2.30%	64.00 2.66%
Other	97.00 0.50%	70.00 0.52%	27.00 0.44%	70.00 0.45%	17.00 1.27%	23.00 0.62%	53.00 0.45%	10.00 0.42%
PC Unix	282.00 1.44%	260.00 1.93%	22.00 0.36%	185.00 1.18%	51.00 3.81%	132.00 3.54%	113.00 0.96%	7.00 0.29%
Unix	752.00 3.84%	632.00 4.70%	120.00 1.96%	570.00 3.64%	87.00 6.50%	206.00 5.53%	469.00 4.00%	28.00 1.17%
VT100	12.00 0.06%	6.00 0.04%	6.00 0.10%	7.00 0.04%	0.00 0.00%	5.00 0.13%	5.00 0.04%	0.00 0.00%
Win95	9376.00 47.88%	5969.00 44.37%	3407.00 55.59%	7489.00 47.77%	559.00 41.75%	1770.00 47.53%	5515.00 46.99%	1228.00 51.12%
Windows	2309.00 11.79%	1298.00 9.65%	1011.00 16.50%	1845.00 11.77%	149.00 11.13%	366.00 9.83%	1342.00 11.43%	400.00 16.65%

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