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 Almost 2.2 million people now have Internet access in the Czech Republic, according to GfK. (Nua Survey — October 23)
The number of people with Internet access around the world at the end of August 2001 is 513.41 million. (nua Survey — September)
About one third of all U.S. workers — 14 million U.S. employees —with an Internet connection are under constant virtual surveillance, a new study has found. (MSNBC — July)
Nearly 7 in 10 American workers now have access to the Internet at work, compared to less than 5 in 10 one year ago, according to a survey by Wirthlin Worldwide for Xylo, Inc. (Cyberatlas — August 23)
According to Nielsen NetRatings, 3.2 million people had home Internet access in Switzerland last month. (Nua Survey — July)
A total of 459 million people have home-based Internet access around the world, according to a report from Nielsen//NetRatings. (Cyberatlas— August 29)
Study shows 429 million online in 27 countries. (Telecom Paper— June 12)
The largest gains in Internet usage over the past year have come in the 18-to-24 age group coveted by advertisers, as well as persons 55 and over an online research group said Monday. Gen-Y users grew 32 percent and seniors who used the Internet and other digital media rose 33 percent, said Jupiter Media Metrix. (TechWeb - May 14)
Ireland: Internet penetration in Ireland now stands at 27 percent and 41 percent of Ireland's Internet users are under age 25. (Cyberatlas — March 19)
Just one person in 10 living in the world has access to the Internet. (BBC — January 29)
As of the end of November 2000, we are 407.1million online worldwide. [Nua Survey - December]
E-Commerce [E-Commerce]
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According to Basex, US online retailers could enjoy increased sales of up to 20 percent if they deployed instant messaging (IM) as an online customer service tool. (Nua Survey — November 30)
Online shoppers spent more on Monday than any previous day this year, spending more than $220 million, according to estimates by ComScore. (WSJ, November 28, 2001)
A survey shows web users spend twice as much time online at work as they do at home (Ananova, November)
Up to 75 percent of online shoppers abandon their shopping carts before buying, according to Vividence. (Nuy Survey, November 12, 2001)
Retailers in the United States sold more than 300,000 copies of Windows XP in the first three days after its launch. (Cyberatlas — November 7)
Over the last three months the shipments of PCs in Europe fell by 11% compared to the same period in 2000. (BBC— October 30)
Research shows internet shopping is causing thousands of people to fall into debt.The UK study found each internet shopper spent an annual average of £700. (Ananova — October 28)
Mail-order catalog companies selling on the Web are the only consistently profitable players in the business, helping to push online-retail sales to $44.5 billion last year, according to an Internet-shoppingstudy, shop.org. (WSJ — May 2)
Nearly one half of the U.S. population has made a purchase on the Internet, according to a new study by Nielsen/NetRatings and Harris Interactive. (WSJ — April 24 )
February sales increased to $3.4 billion or 13% more than the month before. (E-Commerce Times— March 29)
European companies s are slow to embrace e-commerce because of entrenched habits and lack of know-how, a survey finds.ust 3%of the europepan companies surveyed had full-blown systems in place to order and pay for goods online. (WSJ— March 26)
Online Travel continues to be among the most efficient vertical industries on the Internet. According to Nielsen/ NetRatings and Harris Interactive, travel accounted fo one third of the online purchases in January 2001. (Cyberatlas— March 20)
Consumers spent $3 billion online in January, down from $6.1 billion n December, according to the National Retail Federation and Forrester Research. (The Nando Times — March 5)
Online auctions made up 78 percent of Internet fraud complaints received by the National Consumers League in 2000, with an average loss of $326 per victim. (SV.com — January 31)
Web holiday sales still topped $12 billion according to market researcher The NPD Group. That figure is a 54 percent increase over last year's estimated $7 billion. (MSNBC — January 17)
Advertising [Publicité]
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According to Statisticalresearch.com, pop-up messages are 50% more likely to be noticed than conventional banner ads, but are perceived as 100% more intrusive.. (Ananova — May 4)
Over the past five years, the click-through rate of Web-banner ads has declined from above 2% to way under 1%. According to Nielsen/NetRatings, the average click rate for ads in the U.S. for March was just 0.36%. (WSJ — May 3)
Web advertising in Europe in 2000 only amounted to $ 395 million but it is expected to grow to $ 900 million this year. (Nua Survey — January 25)
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AOL [America Online]
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AOL Time Warner said world-wide membership for its AOL service has topped 30 million. (WSJ — June 26)
AOL reports that it has pulled in about one million customers in the last month, bringing its total subscriber base to 29 million. (BBC — April 16 )
AOL Time Warner Inc. said Tuesday the worldwide membership of its flagship AOL Internet service has surpassed the 27-million member milestone. (SV.com — January 16)
AOL Time Warner: How Big Is Big? The numbers show the merger's impact on the wired world will be huge. (The Industry Standard - January 15)
4 in 5: Number of Web users in the United States who touch one of AOL's properties.
20: Percentage of total U.S. consumer magazine advertising revenue earned by the company in 2000.
40: Percentage of U.S. Web users who send instant messages over AOL services. [...]
Demographics [Démogaphie]
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Over two thirds of Asian-Americans use the Internet every day, more than other US ethnic groups, a new study by Pew Internet and American Life Project has shown. (Nua Survey— December 13)
Women are fuelling a surge in internet use in UK, as the global online population rises to 474 million. (BBC — December 11)
During the past three years, female attendance at computer security training courses run by organizations like the SANS Institute has tripled. (SV.com — October 9)
Despite a dearth of Spanish-language Web sites, the number of adult Hispanics online continues to grow in the United States, reaching 50 percent in a survey released Wednesday. (Nando Times)
More than 42 million Web surfers logged on to the Internet from the office in the past year according to Nielsen//NetRatings, as Web usage at work jumped 23 percent. (Cyberatlas— July 11)
According to figures released Wednesday by analysts at Jupiter Media Metrix, U.S. women over the age of 18 comprise 40.9 percent of all online users Men 18 and up now compose 39.8 percent of all online users. (Washington Post— June 13)
Women comprise only 13 percentof the top executives and 9 percent of the boards of directors of the nation's leading media, telecom and e-commerce companies, according to research by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. (Nando Times— March 14)
The collapse of the enthusiasm for Internet companies and stocks may be infecting the Web. PC Data Online researchers reported Monday a 2 percent drop in the number of people using the Internet in January, compared with December. (PCData Online — February 10)
One survey showed that one third of workers shouted at people in the office and that 65% sometimes felt stressedby their work. Almost one fourth of the 1,305 respondents said work problems had driven them to tears and 35% blamed their jobs for lack of sleep. (The Electronic Telegraph — January 25)
There are more than 3.1 million Internet users in the Arab world. (CyberAtlas — January 24)
There are now more than 11 million people using the Internet at home in the UK, according to NetValue. (CyberAtlas — January 18)
Domain Names [Noms de domaines]
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About 650,000«.-info» addresses have been registered, 52,000 of them during the preregistration phase. So far, more than 760 challenges have been filed, 700 of which have been dealt with by WIPO. (NY Times — December 6)
Domain Name registraton of .com, .org, or .net gTLDs have grown exponentially in the past two years, reaching almost 30 million in 2000, up from about 4 million in 1998. Currently, about 75 % are .com, 15 % are .net and 10 % are .org. (Domain Update
There are already about 29 million domain names in the «.com», «.net» and «.org», Some projections see Domain Names increasing to more than 1 billion within the next five years. Of these, experts believe about 10 to 15 percent will be multilingual names. (Domain Update Newsletter — April 4 )
In France, 57% of users indicated they would like a firstname.lastname email address because it is easy to remember. (Domain Update Newsletter — March 21)
On a per capita basis, Washington DC leads all 50 states in domain registrations in the US. The top five states for the number of domains registered are, in order, California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois. (Cyberatlas)
Page Views [Pages Lues]
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Traffic to the Red Cross website (redcross.org) surged in the week of the attacks, with an average of 398'000 visitors every day. (nua Survey — September 24)
Average duration of a page viewed is 00: 51. (Nielsen NetRatings — June 24)
Since the Trojan Coffee Pot in Cambridge University's computer lab went live on the web in the early 1990s, the otherwise unremarkable filter machine has been watched filling up and emptying by an estimated 2.4m viewers worldwide. (The Guardian — March 6)
Forecasts [Prévisions]
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Internet Usage will skyrocket to 766 million worldwide by 2005 with e-commerce revenues reaching $1.3 trillion by 2003. (The Industry Standard - February 7)
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Internet [Internet]
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46 percent of technology executives do not have a formal information security policy, and 68 percent do not conduct regular analysis of security risks or track security status. (Nua Survey, November 22, 2001)
PAY PER VIEW
— About 17 percent of Internet users surveyed have been asked to pay to access Web sites they used to see for free. (MSNBC November 14)
— Of those, however, only 12 percent have agreed to pay for access. The rest decide to stop getting that content or service from an online source, the Pew study says. (MSNBC November 14)
Pew researchers estimated that the growth of the Web has slowed from 700'000 new sites a year before 2001 to about 200'000 new sites. (MSNBC November 14)
Gartner Inc, has predicted that the number of instant messaging users will grow to 180m worldwide by 2004. (The Guardian— November 1)
The Internet Archive, informally called the Wayback Machine, holds more 100 terabytes and 10 billion Web pages dating to 1996, including millions that had vanished as dot-coms collapsed, big companies scaled back or updated their offering. (LA Times — October 25)
Last week, "Cipro" was the third most popular query on search engine Google, with "anthrax" taking the top position. Searches for Cipro on Drugstore.com Inc., an online pharmacy accredited by the Association of Pharmacy Boards, have jumped 2,000% in the last two weeks. (WSJ — October 24)
CIOs anticipate a net 15 percent increase in the hiring of IT professionals in the fourth quarter of 2001, according to data from RHI Consulting. (Cyberatlas— August 30)
Online U.S. purchases fell 1.8 percent to $7.458 billion in the second quarter after sinking 14.5 percent in the first three months of 2001. (Wired— August 30)
Over 7,300 copyrighted books are currently available for free via online file-sharing networks. (Europemedia.net — August)
The internet has taken only 7 years to penetrate a quarter of the US population, while the telephone took up to 35 years to accomplish the same feat. (Europemedia — August 23)
Computer Rage: One in four Britons have attacked their machine, with some even injuring themselves in the process. Common problems sparking anger at machines include system crashes and sticky mice. (Ananova — August 23)
The subject of one of the world's first webcams - a coffee pot in a Cambridge University computer lab - has sold on eBay for £3,350. (The Guardian — August)
A survey finds that 95 percent of people using the internet for a couple of hours a day attract the attention of hackers. (BBC — August 13)
Websense Inc. said Wednesday that it estimates that U.S. companies lose $63 billion a year in lost productivity due to the Net, which the company claims is a "major distraction" for employees. (IDG.net — August 1)
90 percent of US colleges and universities will offer some level of elearning by 2005, according to IDC. (Nua Survey)
In a recent survey by Pew Internet, more than 60 percent of parents reported that they checked to see which Web sites their teenagers had visited. (NY Times)
A new study suggests computer screensavers dramatically reduce employees' productivity. Researchers say screensavers featuring naked women are the worst and could lower productivity by as much as 40%. (Ananova— July 18)
Almost 90% of all computer software in Russia is pirated, according to new research. (Ananova — June 27)
Only 3 percent of UK credit card fraud relates to the internet, according to experts. (The Guardian — June 23)
Of the approximately 13 million American teenagers who use the Net, 74 percent use instant messaging. (The Industry Standard — June 20)
Worldwide server growth came to a screeching halt in the first quarter of 2001, with server factory revenue declining 4% according to IDC. (CyberAtlas — June 14)
As of March 31, The WSJ online, which was launched in 1996, had 574,000 subscribers. (WSJ— June 11)
According to a new survey, 25% of PC users have physically attacked their machines. (Ananova — May 31)
Nearly 4,000 DoS attacks occur per week, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). (CNN — May 24)
Most public schools in the US are wired to the internet -- 98% were online in 2000, up from just 35% in 94. (E-Marketer- May 21)
25 percent of Americans are watching less TV. 20 percent of adults online said they're reading less print magazines since going online and 15 percent say they have decreased the time they spend reading print newspapers. (The Industry Standard - May 9)
According to Reporters Without Borders, at least 20 countries significantly restrict Internet access (it is not known how much they monitor e-mail traffic on the Internet. (NYTimes — April 25 )
Employees could expect to lose up to £ 50,000 a year in lost productivity, according to the Web@Work Survey 2001 commissioned by Websense. (The Register — April 19 )
Net users' patience only lasts 12 minutes. Information overload on the Internet causes users to feel frustrated and stressed, and can even lead to Internet rage (71 percent), according to a new study by webtop.com in the UK. (Nua Survey — April 17 )
B2B Internet commerce in the Asia/Pacific region reached $ 96.8 billion in 2000, which was 22 percent of the worldwide total of $433.3 billion, according to Gartner Group. (Cyberatlas— April 5 )
At leas 155 federal computer systems - some containing sensitive research information or personal data on Americans - were temporarily taken over by hackers last year, according to a government review. (Nando Times— April 5 )
There will be 66.2 million active online bank accounts in Europe by 2003, up from 26.1 million in 2000, according to Datamonitor. (Nua Survey — March 5)
Visa, says that 47% of all complaints and disputes it receives over payment across the EU are internet-related - a statistic made more startling by the fact that only 1% of its European transactions are online. (The Guardian — March 3)
Credit card fraud in the European Union rose a staggering 50 percent last year, with illegal transactions reaching an estimated $553 million. A large proportion of the increase involves payments made by telephone or over the Internet. (SV.com— February 19)
People who chat online are among the heaviest users of the Internet, according to research by NetValue, which found chatters generate twice as many online sessions as the general Internet
user. (CyberAtlas— February 7)
The productivity of the typical Valley employee, at $127,100 is also about double the national average. (The Industry Standard — January 19)
A Nielsen/NetRatings survey released this week found the average time spent online per person per month declined more than 15 percent in December from October, from 17.5 to 14.9 hours. (Nando News — January 19)
Of the 4,139 cases referred to Commercial Crime Service by its members this year for checking or investigation, 2,776 were directly connected to crime, fraud, or deliberate misrepresentation by Web site traders offering bogus goods or services. Cyberatlas - January 9
The number of German-language far-right, hate Web sites more than doubled during the year 2000. rising from 330 in 1999 to 800 in 2000. (Nando News - January 14)
Sex Online [Sex Onlne]
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At least 200,000 Americans have a cybersex addiction, says psychologist Al Cooper of the San Jose (Calif.) Marital and Sexuality Centre. Cooper, an expert in Net sexual behavior, bases this estimate on recent national surveys he has done. (USA Today — December 12)
According to the Justice Department, in 1998, there were about 28'000 X-rated Web sites generating about $ 925 milion in annual revenue. The number of sites has grown substantially. One adult-registration service says it offers access to more than 280'000 sites. (WSJ, November 26, 2001)
9 out 10 children aged 8 to 16 have seen pornography on the internet. (Ananova, November)
19 percent of the 1,500 surveyed youths aged 10 to 17 reported getting solicited, presumably by adults. (CNN — June 19)
Over 1,100 people responded to an online questionnaire and four out of ten said they actively spend time surfing internet sex sites and a third do so with their partner. (Ananova — April 23 )
Which Country Consumes the Most Online Porn? Australia and Canada where a third of Internet users accessed porn sites from home in December 2000, according to Media Metrix. (Netsurfer Digest — March 8)
Wireless Telephony [Téléphonie Mobile]
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There are now more active mobile-phone users than landline telephone users in Sweden. 6.4 million vs 5.8 million. (Nua Survey — December 3)
There are 100 million mobile users (9 percent of the population) in China and the number is growing fast. (The Guardian, November 22, 2001)
Sales of mobile phones to consumers dropped 10 percent in the third quarter of 2001 compared with the same period a year ago, according to Gartner Dataquest. (CNN, November 19, 2001)
The number of wireless Internet subscribers in the United States will increase from approximately 5 million in 2000 to more than 84 million in 2005, according to IDC. (Cyberatlas — October 18)
Only 15 percent of senior citizens actually are online, compared to 56 percent of all Americans. (MSNBC — September 9)
39 percent of cell phone owners interviewed by research group Wirthlin Worldwide said they would answer a call in the bathroom. (Wired— September 6, 2001)
21 percent of mobile phone users spent around a quarter of their waking day on their handsets. (Ananova — August 8)
In the telecommunication sector alone, companies have announced plans to shed at least 175,000 jobs so far this year. (LA Times — August 8)
Among the top uses for SMSs is sending romantic and flirtatious messages. About 71 milions messages of this type are sent per week, comprising 25 percent of all weekly SMSs. (Europemedia — August)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that Mobile phones now contribute to approximately 20% to 30% of all car accidents. (Ananova)
The number of US mobile Internet users engaging in wireless transactions will not exceed 1 milion until 2002, when mobile merchant revenues will reach USD 22 million. (Nua Survey— July 10)
Ninety Percent of UK teenagers own a mobile phone and 10 percent use their phone more than 45 minutes a day. (La Lettre de l'Internet — July 10)
9 out of 10 children own mobile phones and some 10% of children talk on their mobiles for more than 45 minutes every day new research
reveals. (Ananova — June 28)
A new report by Gartner Dataquest says worldwide sales of mobile phones are expected to hit </ |
Stats' 2001