What is internet survey?

Survey of average Internet traffic of general websites

• I have been thinking that we have overlooked a serious limitation in our craze to build websites without questioning that there will be enough web visitors go around for all websites on the Internet. My premise for saying this is that mathematically speaking there is simply NOT ENOUGH visitors (measured in hours/minutes spent browsing) on the Internet today that can justify all the expense of building websites (especially with the intention of making money). What I like to find out therefore is, any data/statistics that attempts to estimate the possible numbers of hours web users spend on the Internet. Then divide the number with the number of websites (estimated) that compete for this audience. Another possible indicator is to find out the average number of visitors a websites gets. Thanks!

• Answer:

  Dear shiferaw, The media research agency, Nielsen NetRatings, calculates the global Internet usage behaviour based on regular surveys. You can view these worldwide figures here: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/hot_off_the_net.jsp According to these statistical data as of June 2002, an average Internet user visited 40 web pages during a surfing session, spending not more than 47 seconds for examining a single page. Furthermore, this average net user spent 9 hours, 37 minutes, 29 seconds online in the said month, or 31 minutes, 17 seconds per session. Apart from this global estimate, Nielsen NetRatings also calculates corresponding figures for the USA and a number of other countries. Follow this link to see the US data: Weekly web usage data for the USA http://pm.netratings.com/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.usageweekly Monthly web usage data for the USA http://pm.netratings.com/nnpm/owa/NRpublicreports.usagemonthly To access the statistics for other countries, please use this link: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/hot_off_the_net_i.jsp You will find the links to the data in the lower section of the website. Figures for the world online population are published by CyberAtlas. They quote the media resarchers, eMarketer (estimating 445.9 million users worldwide) and Computer Industry Almanac (estimating 533 million users): http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,1323,5911_151151,00.html According to data by the OCLC Office of Research, published by the University of Lausanne, there were 8.7 million websites worldwide in October, 2001: http://inforge.unil.ch/francais/enseignement/DpioMemoires20002001/DaisyPremat_final.pdf So this is the approximate general picture for online behaviour worldwide: There are roughly 500 million Internet users. Each of them accesses, in average, the Net 18 times a month, spending ca. 31 minutes online, during which he visits 40 websites. He stays 47 seconds on each of the sites. Nearly 9 million websites compete in being among the 735 sites this average user visits in a month. Sources: Nielsen NetRatings - Hot Off The Net http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/hot_off_the_net.jsp CyberAtlas - The Big Picture: Stats Toolbox http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/stats_toolbox/article Université de Lausanne: Authentification processes in distributed network systems http://inforge.unil.ch/francais/enseignement/DpioMemoires20002001/DaisyPremat_final.pdf Search terms used: "number of websites worldwide" 2002: ://www.google.de/search?q=%22number+of+websites+worldwide%22+2002&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&start=10&sa=N Hope, this is what you were looking for Regards, Scriptor