The behavior of current “high-powered” high-speed users may offer a glimpse into the future. In our December 2005 survey, the median broadband user did three online activities on a given day (out of a list of ten) compared to one for the median dial-up user.[6.numoffset=”6″ The average (or mean) number of activities was 2.8 for […]
Introduction Once a person makes the switch to a high-speed internet connection at home, his or her relationship to the internet deepens. A home broadband user logs onto the internet more often and does a wider range of activities online than a dial-up internet user.[1. The Project has documented how a home broadband connection affects […]
News topics users pursue in cyberspace The internet offers choice in variety of topics in addition to choice in numbers of news sites. Our December 2005 survey not only asked internet users a general question of whether they get news online, but also asked them about six different kinds of news available online. The table […]
Internet users have a wide array of online sources for news, and they use them. The number of choices internet users have to get news online is vast. The December 2005 survey asked respondents about ten different kinds of online news sites as a way to benchmark the variety of sources people may use. Most […]
Rural Americans are less likely to log on to the internet at home with high-speed internet connections than people living in other parts of the country.
The findings in this data memo are based on the findings of daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. Most of the data in this report is drawn from the Project’s combined surveys of September and December 2005 of 5,262 adult Americans, 3,508 of whom were internet […]
One in ten internet users have gone to a dating website. About one in ten (11%) internet users who responded to our survey said they had ever gone to a dating website where they could meet people online.[13.numoffset=”13″ Similar data from comScore Media Metrix gathered in the month of January 2006 shows that 14% of […]
