Internet Statistics
J-Town's success is largely credited to our personable approach to our work. We want to help people. While being aware of various technologies, our philosophy has always been to design sites with the user in mind. Sites should be easy to use and they should work!
We design Web sites according to standards set by professional organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Society (ISOC) and Israel Internet Society) of which we are a member. We also design according to a least common denominator which changes with the market.
The following are some global statistics to help you understand how people use the Internet.
Make sure to check out the last set of stats to peek into the future!
Web Browsers
About 60% of people use Internet Explorer as their Web browser, about 30% use Firefox
Search Engine Popularity
| Online Searches by Engine (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | December 2006||||
| Total Internet population | 100% | 100% | ||
| Google sites | 55.2 | 47.3 | ||
| Yahoo sites | 21.9 | 28.5 | ||
| Microsoft sites | 9 | 10.5 | ||
| Ask network | 1.8 | 5.4 | ||
| Time Warner network | 5.4 | 4.9 | ||
| Source: April 2007 stats: NetRatings Inc.; Dec. 2006 stats: comScore qSearch, 2007 | ||||
Operating Systems
Over 75% of users have a Windows XP operating system, less than 10% have Windows2000, less than 5% use Mac, about 3.5% use Linux and less than 1.5% of users use Windows98Display Resolution
The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels or more| Resolution | Percentage of Users |
| 640x480 | 0% |
| 800x600 | 17% |
| 1024x768 | 58% |
| Higher | 19% |
| unknown | 6% |
49% of e-mail users in the USA have a work account
71% of e-mail users use spam filters offered by their provider or employers.
March 2007, Pew Research Center
Video Players (Adults in 2006 according to Forrester Research)
| Microsoft Windows Media Player | 45% |
| RealNetworks' Real Player | 10% |
| Apple's iTunes or Quicktime | 6% |
Note, however that in April 2007 Adobe announced that it will be releasing a desktop video player with which users will be able to download video from the Web such as those formatted in Adobe's popular Flash technology. And in the first half of 2007 Apple has captured more of the video marketshare as it has partnered with movie studios and television stations with the expansion of video sales and Apple TV.
Color Depth
The current trend is that most computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to display 16,777,216 different colors. Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors. Handheld computers (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors. Nonetheless unless monitors are correctly calibrated colors on your web site may appear differently to different people.- 8 bits3%
- 16 bits16%
- 24 or 32 bits81%
The World Wide Web
| Date | Number of Web Sites Worldwide |
| August 1995 | 18,000 |
| May 2004 | 50,000,000 |
| Oct. 2006 | 100,000,000 |
Access
78% of U.S. home Internet users have high-speed access. (Nielsen//NetRatings quoted in Forbes Dec. 12, 2006)Blogs
2004 27 percent of Internet users, or about 32 million American adults, said they read blogs
2006 39 percent of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, said they read blogs
Source: 2006 survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project
The Future is here NOW - Our Youth
Statistics are from studies of Youth in the USA, but Israel is not far behind.- Young people today spend an average of almost 6.5 hours a day with media.
- 87% of U.S. teens aged 12-17 use the Internet.
- 50% of young people have contributed content to the Web. This includes 32% who have created their own personal Web page or Web site and others who have contributed blogs, photos, videos, music, stories, artwork, etc.
- Nearly 75% of teenagers aged 12-17 and 42% of adults use instant messaging, 38% of teens read blogs while 19% of teens have their own blog.
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