GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Webmaster Graphs

Which Features are Important

Notes:

Respondents were allowed to mark more than one answer. As with the Sixth Survey, the most important feature in selecting a Web server is performance (83.18% Seventh vs. 80.73% Sixth), followed by ease of administration (73.13% Seventh vs. 72.67% Sixth), price (60.18% Seventh vs. 56.56% Sixth), database integration (53.29% Seventh vs. 53.16% Sixth), remote maintenance capabilities (50.90% Seventh vs. 45.35% Sixth) and secure communications (50.39% Seventh vs. 47.51% Sixth). Virtual hosting increased in importance from being ranked 9^th at 28.66% in the Fifth Survey to 7^th at 34.34% in the Sixth Survey to 7^th at 38.14% in the Seventh Survey. European Webmasters are more concerned about virtual hosting than US Webmasters (48.10% Europe vs. 36.93% US).

Table of Data for All Categories

Which Features are Important	All	USA	Europe
Access to Code	425.00 27.38%	303.00 26.14%	55.00 34.81%
Administration	1135.00 73.13%	866.00 74.72%	108.00 68.35%
Cataloging	375.00 24.16%	281.00 24.25%	38.00 24.05%
DB Integration	827.00 53.29%	623.00 53.75%	84.00 53.16%
Don t Know	33.00 2.13%	27.00 2.33%	1.00 0.63%
Extensability	563.00 36.28%	432.00 37.27%	53.00 33.54%
Other	187.00 12.05%	142.00 12.25%	21.00 13.29%
Performance	1291.00 83.18%	974.00 84.04%	132.00 83.54%
Price	934.00 60.18%	723.00 62.38%	91.00 57.59%
Remote Maintenance	790.00 50.90%	598.00 51.60%	79.00 50.00%
Secure Communications	782.00 50.39%	598.00 51.60%	68.00 43.04%
Virtual Hosting	592.00 38.14%	428.00 36.93%	76.00 48.10%

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