GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Provider Graphs

How Long In Business

Notes:

There seems to be a slight slowdown in the number of new web service providers: 27.6% report being in business for less than a year compared to 35.8% six months ago. The same percentage as in the Sixth survey, however, report being in business for over four years (29.7%).

Table of Data for All Categories

How Long in Business	All	USA	Europe
1-2 yrs	244.00 23.78%	185.00 24.41%	28.00 25.45%
2-4 yrs	194.00 18.91%	131.00 17.28%	22.00 20.00%
6-12 mo	143.00 13.94%	106.00 13.98%	15.00 13.64%
Over 4 yrs	305.00 29.73%	238.00 31.40%	27.00 24.55%
Under 3 mo	140.00 13.65%	98.00 12.93%	18.00 16.36%

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