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Articles - February 2001 Internet Statistics
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The following statistics were gathered for the month of February 2001. These stats can be useful to webmasters for planning the direction and appearance of their projects.
Top 50 Sites of February (PC Data Online)
Pos. Unique Visitors
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1. yahoo.com
64,415,000
2. aol.com
51,307,000
3. msn.com
46,739,000
4. microsoft.com 38,743 ,000
5. passport.com
36,521,000
6. geocities.com 35,569,000
7. AOLProprietary.aol 34,195,000
8. ebay.com
24,428,000
9. lycos.com
22,863,000
10. amazon.com 22,635,000
11. angelfire.com 18,971,000
12. netscape.com 18,816,000
13. bluemountain.com 18,683,000
14. nbci.com
17,982,000
15. tripod.com
17,967,000
16. ask.com
17,586,000
17. excite.com
17,452,000
18. about.com
16,291,000
19. iwon.com
15,350,000
20. americangreetings.com 15,324,000
21. altavista.com 14,128,000
22. google.com
13,747,000
23. flowgo.com
13,211,000
24. zdnet.com
12,863,000
25. cnet.com
12,747,000
Source: http://www.pcdataonline.com/
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Average Internet User Stats (Nielsen//NetRatings)
The following is an average of North American users.
Number of unique sites visited
19
Page views per month 1,051
Page views per surfing session
36
Time spent per month 16:29:30
Time spent during surfing session 0:32:44
Duration of page view 0:00:55
Active Internet universe
(actually surfed)
109.5 million
Current Internet universe
170.1 million
Source: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
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February Browser Stats (TheCounter.com)
Browser Stats
Thu Feb 1 00:01:04 2001 - Wed Feb 28 23:59:12 2001 28.0 Days
1. MSIE 5.x
407695327 (75%)
2. MSIE 4.x
62546385 (11%)
3. Netscape 4.x 50823790 (9%)
4. Netscape comp. 9938223 (1%)
5. Unknow
4064672 (0%)
6. MSIE 2.x
2159860 (0%)
7. Mozilla 5.x
1686962 (0%)
8. MSIE 3.x
1567271 (0%)
9. Netscape 3.x 1562010 (0%)
10. Opera x.x
1271590 (0%)
11. Netscape 2.x 52414 (0%)
12. Netscape 1.x 2434 (0%)
13. MSIE 1.x
1477 (0%)
Source: www.thecounter.com
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February Monitor Resolution Stats (TheCounter.com)
Resolution Stats
Thu Feb 1 00:01:04 2001 - Wed Feb 28 23:59:12 2001 28.0 Days
800x600 250354528 (55%)
1024x768 135124449 (29%)
640x480 30815919 (6%)
1280x1024 13694356 (3%)
1152x864 11988711 (2%)
Unknown 6556289 (1%)
1600x1200 2092392 (0%)
Source: www.thecounter.com
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February Operating System Stats (TheCounter.com)
OS Stats
Thu Feb 1 00:01:04 2001 - Wed Feb 28 23:59:12 2001 28.0 Days
1. Win 98 375802310 (69%)
2. Win 95 68600434 (12%)
3. Win NT 38696830 (7%)
4. Win 2000 29394405 (5%)
5. Unknown 14067796 (2%)
6. Mac 11418720 (2%)
7. WebTV 2242523 (0%)
8. Linux 1451648 (0%)
9. Unix 805754
(0%)
10. Win 3.x 793239 (0%)
11. OS/2 61840
(0%)
12. Amiga 36916 (0%)
Source: www.thecounter.com
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Most commonly used Search Terms for February 2001
1. sex 0.3289%
2. hotmail/hotmail.com/www.hotmail.com 0.2131%
3. yahoo/yahoo.com/www.yahoo.com 0.2044%
4. porn/porno/pornography 0.1402%
5. chat/chatrooms 0.1233%
6. mp3 0.0935%
7. horoscopes/horoscope 0.0800%
8. ebay/ebay.com/www.ebay.com 0.0731%
9. aol/aol.com/www.aol.com 0.0714%
10. games 0.0659%
11. map/maps 0.0585%
12. pokemon 0.0549%
13. nude/nudes 0.0541%
14. music 0.0505%
15. xxx 0.0473%
16. travel 0.0470%
17. screensaver/screensavers 0.0458%
18. lyrics/song lyrics 0.0455%
19. playboy 0.0430%
20. free 0.0426%
"The top 50 search terms account for only 2.73 percent of all search term page views, which reflects how diverse people's interests are," said Jason Maxham, lead data miner at Alexa Research. "By contrast, the 50 most popular Web sites receive 25 percent of all traffic -- that's more than eight times as concentrated as the search terms. This concentration reveals that in the bigger picture, people still converge on the same batch of sites."
Source: Alexa Research
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Internet Usage Forecasts (eTForecasts)
Internet Users/Wireless Users
(millions)
2000 2002 2005
United States
Internet Users
135 169 214
Wireless Internet Users 2 18
83
Worldwide
Internet Users
414 673 1,174
Wireless Internet Users 40 225
730
Western Europe
Internet Users
95 148 246
Wireless Internet Users 7 59
168
Source: http://www.etforecasts.com/
Michael Bloch
Taming the Beast
http://www.tamingthebeast.net
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