GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Webmaster Graphs

Network Connection Speed

Notes:

Over a third of the Webmasters (38.27%) report that the connection of their server to the Internet is 1 Mb/sec. This reflects an increase from the Sixth Survey where 33.64% reported a 1 Mb/sec connection. The next most common connection speeds are 10 Mb/sec (14.69% Seventh vs. 11.88% Sixth) and 45 Mb/sec (10/69% Seventh vs. 9.14% Sixth). Since the Sixth Survey, there has been considerable movement towards faster connections, reversing the prior trend towards slower servers. Our understanding of this is that, during 1995 and 1996, many commercial sites were going online at significantly slower speeds than those used in educational settings, which had proportionally more HTTP servers in the early days. For example, in the Third Survey, the most common server connection speed was 10 Mb/sec (38.94%) followed by 1 Mb/sec with 12.88% and 56 Kb/sec with 11.08%. In the Second Survey (October 1994), 54% reported connection speeds of 1 Mb/sec! These fast speeds are still typical of the types of connection between colleges and universities and the Internet.

Table of Data for All Categories

Network Connection Speed	All	USA	Europe
100m	45.00 2.90%	33.00 2.85%	6.00 3.80%
10m	228.00 14.69%	159.00 13.72%	34.00 21.52%
128k	139.00 8.96%	80.00 6.90%	29.00 18.35%
1m	594.00 38.27%	486.00 41.93%	41.00 25.95%
28k	142.00 9.15%	107.00 9.23%	5.00 3.16%
45m	164.00 10.57%	129.00 11.13%	14.00 8.86%
56k	126.00 8.12%	83.00 7.16%	17.00 10.76%
Over100m	27.00 1.74%	20.00 1.73%	2.00 1.27%
Under 28k	20.00 1.29%	8.00 0.69%	4.00 2.53%
Unsure	67.00 4.32%	54.00 4.66%	6.00 3.80%

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