GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Use Graphs

Frequency of Use

Notes:

For this question, we mean how many times you use the Web for a specific set of tasks or activities. We do not mean how many times the browser is launched per day. Usage increased slightly from the Sixth Survey (85.16% Seventh daily usage vs. 81.88% Sixth daily usage). 41.69% Seventh (45.92% Sixth) of respondents use the Web 1 to 4 times a day, 41.69% (35.96% Sixth) use it more frequently, and 14.84% (18.1% Sixth) use it less frequently. Female users are less likely to be heavy daily users than males and the 19-25 age group tends to be the heaviest users with the elder group being the least frequent users.

Table of Data for All Categories

Frequency of Use	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
1-4/dy	7087.00 43.47%	4689.00 42.84%	2303.00 44.94%	5603.00 43.49%	403.00 37.52%	1103.00 37.05%	4205.00 43.16%	1164.00 55.85%
5-8/dy	2804.00 17.20%	2001.00 18.28%	759.00 14.81%	2262.00 17.56%	162.00 15.08%	579.00 19.45%	1666.00 17.10%	311.00 14.92%
Few Times/wk	2130.00 13.07%	1089.00 9.95%	1011.00 19.73%	1593.00 12.36%	175.00 16.29%	400.00 13.44%	1170.00 12.01%	300.00 14.40%
Once/mo	83.00 0.51%	28.00 0.26%	52.00 1.01%	64.00 0.50%	4.00 0.37%	22.00 0.74%	37.00 0.38%	7.00 0.34%
Once/wk	206.00 1.26%	76.00 0.69%	127.00 2.48%	147.00 1.14%	17.00 1.58%	52.00 1.75%	107.00 1.10%	25.00 1.20%
Over 9/dy	3993.00 24.49%	3063.00 27.98%	873.00 17.03%	3215.00 24.95%	313.00 29.14%	821.00 27.58%	2557.00 26.25%	277.00 13.29%

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