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As usual, we've got a ton of graphs presented in as consistent manner as possible. New questions not asked in previous surveys are denoted by the
icon.
All graphs will be available through anonymous ftp via ftp.cc.gatech.edu in
/pub/gvu/www/survey/survey-1997-10/graphs/ shortly. (Feel free to bug us about getting this done!)
The questions for the survey are arranged into the following categories:
- General Demographics
- Technology Demographics
- Data Privacy
- Cultural Issues in Web Design
- Web and Internet Use
- Electronic Commerce
- Specialized Questionnaires
How to Access the Information
For most questions, there are four graphs and one table available:- "by Location" - the entire sample vs European vs US users
- "by Age" - ages 10-18, 19-25, 26-50, 51+
- "by Gender" - the entire sample vs Female vs Male users
- "by Experience" - Novices (<1yr online) vs Intermediate (1-3 yrs) vs Expert (>3 yrs)
- Table of Data for the all samples
All graphs are interlaced gifs and were created using Delta Graph 4.0
for the Macintosh, and converted into gif format using GraphicConverter.
The data used for these graphs was generated from summary statistics processed
via Splus version 3.3 for UNIX.
General Demographics
- 10,109 Respondents
- General Demographics
- General Questions
Technology Demographics
- 7,695 Respondents- Browsers
- Monitors
- Equipment Owned
- Use of Communication Technologies
- Use of Internet Technologies
- Online Services Subscribed To
- Connection Speed
- Speed Upgrade
Data Privacy
- 6,673 Respondents- Terms and Conditions for Revealing Demographic Information
- Reasons for Not Registering
- Knowledge of Information Logged per Page Request
- What Information Ought to be Collected per Page Request
- Agree/Disagree Questions
- Internet Privacy Laws
- Key Escrow Encryption
- Privacy of Communications
- Anonymous Payment Systems
- Ought to be able to Assume Different Aliases/Roles on the Internet
- Users Ought to Have Complete Control of Demographic Info
- Content Providers have Right to Resell User Information
- Information about Users Improves Marketing of Site
- Advertising Networks
- Direct Marketing
- Use of Demographic Information in Other Mediums
- Mass Emailings
- Children's Privacy
- Unsolicited Commercial Email
Cultural Issues in Web Design
- 1,097 Respondents- Computer_Experience
- Native Language
- Primary same as Native
- Fluency in Reading
- Fluency in Speaking
- Language Display Software
- Non-English sites
- Provide native language sites
- Response to web site in unfamiliar language
- Sites in non-fluent language
- Sites designed for culture
- Problems with unfamiliar language sites
- Most important problem with unfamiliar language sites
- Provide translations of web sites
- Link color
- Background color
- Couldn't learn due to language
- Wouldnt learn due to culture
- Like graphics
- Like colors
- Like text
- Like audio
- Like video/movies
- American images
Computer, Web and Internet Use
- 7,220 Respondents- Hours of Personal Computing
- Hours of Work Computing
- Hours of Fun Computing
- Hours of Web Use
- Frequency of Web Use
- Image Loading
- Primary Uses of the Web
- Problems Using the Web
- Cookie Policy
- Indispensable Technologies
- Navigation Services
- Reasons For Saving and Printing Documents
- How Users Find out About WWW Pages
- Frequency of Accessing Different Types of Information
- Favories/Bookmarks Usage
Electronic Commerce
- Internet Shopping - 3,254 Respondents
- Type of Information - Personal
- Type of Information - Professional
- Time Spent Searching - Personal
- Time Spent Searching - Professional
- Success Rate - Personal
- Success Rate - Professional
- Time to Give Up - Personal
- Time to Give Up - Professional
- Dissatisfying Experiences - Personal
- Dissatisfying Experiences - Professional
- Purchasing Decisions - Personal
- Purchasing Decisions - Professional
- Intentional Searches - Personal
- Intentional Searches - Professional
- Ordering on the Web - Personal
- Ordering on the Web - Professional
- Paying on the Web - Personal
- Paying on the Web - Professional
- Visiting Web Sites of Stores - Personal
- Visiting Web Sites of Stores - Professional
- Reasons for Using the Web - Personal
- Reasons for Using the Web - Professional
- Information Gathering & Purchasing - 2,481 Respondents
- Total Spending On WWW Purchases
- Past Purchases
- Online Seeking And Purchasing
- Sources Used In Purchasing
- Seeking Across Mediums
- Opinions on Internet Commerce - 2,161 Respondents:
- Vendor Characteristics
- Providing Credit Card Information Through The Web
- Importance of Vendor Characteristics and Privacy Policies
Web Authors
- 1,482 Respondents Note: Due to resource limitations, we are not able to provide any analysis for these questions. However, we have made the graphs available for you do make your own interpretation of the results. We apologize for any inconvenience.- Background of Authors
- Why Do You Create Web Pages
- Topics of Documents Authored
- Sources Consulted in Learning HTML
- Authoring Tools
- Number of Years Programming
- Languages Used for CGI Programming
- Java
- ActiveX
Webmasters
- 679 Respondents Note: Due to resource limitations, we are not able to provide any analysis for these questions. However, we have made the graphs available for you do make your own interpretation of the results. We apologize for any inconvenience.- Which Web Server
- Intended Server in 6 Months
- Server Platform
- Do You Operate an Intranet
- Number of Servers Operating
- Network Connection Speed
- Are You the Sole Webmaster
- How Long as Webmaster
- Time Spent Being Webmaster
- Which Features are Important
- Control of Server Parameters
- Opinion of Common Log Format
- Like "Webmaster" Title
- Amount Charged for Advertising
- Log File Analysis Tools
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