{"id":141,"date":"2004-08-29T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=141"},"modified":"2004-08-29T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T11:07:10","slug":"internet-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/about-the-internet-and-the-web\/internet-statistics","title":{"rendered":"Internet Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I typically give my students the assignment to find how many hours, on the average,  American&#8217;s spend on the Internet per week. The usual approach is to search using Google. This brings up some results, but the results are often not current. A reliable source for current information is ClickZ Stats in the section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickz.com\/stats\/big_picture\/traffic_patterns\/\">traffic pattern <\/a>.<br \/>\nSome other sites to consider are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sims.berkeley.edu\/research\/projects\/how-much-info-2003\/internet.htm\"> Internet section<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sims.berkeley.edu\/research\/projects\/how-much-info-2003\/index.htm\">&#8220;How Much Information? 2003<\/a> &#8220;produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=356\">Harris Poll items about the Internet<\/a>. Th most recent one I could find was for February 5, 2003.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webzeit.com\/site\/citegeist\/chronograph.html\">WebZeit: Citegeist<\/a>. Some information, some commentary.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nua.ie\/surveys\/index.cgi?f=VS&amp;art_id=905357930&amp;rel=true\">American  mothers get online<\/a> . An article from 2002 that says that American mothers spend more time on the Internet than teenagers.<\/li>\n<li> The size of the blogosphere? It&#8217;s not easy to get a definitive answer on that. One place to look for an answer is <a href=\"http:\/\/dijest.com\/bc\/\">blogcount<\/a>, with sources listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/dijest.com\/bc\/#sources\">http:\/\/dijest.com\/bc\/#sources<\/a>. An article from ClickZ in 2003, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickz.com\/stats\/big_picture\/applications\/article.php\/1301_2238831\">Blogging by the Numbers<\/a>,  put the number of active blogs at 1.6 million with more than twice that many registered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I typically give my students the assignment to find how many hours, on the average, American&#8217;s spend on the Internet per week. The usual approach is to search using Google. This brings up some results, but the results are often not current. A reliable source for current information is ClickZ Stats in the section traffic [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-internet-and-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}