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ship
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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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Hi
What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup?
Any one know?
One of my team just created a web page that was 752KB including (ultra
fat) images.
and I'm trying to prove that, even when time is short, this is NOT a
good idea!
With thanks
Ship
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Mark Goodge
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: Re: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:17:00 -0700 (PDT), ship put finger to keyboard
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Hi
What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup?
Any one know?
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That's not necessarily a useful measurement, since the number of users
on dialup doesn't equate to the same percentage of visits from them.
Dialup users tend to do less web surfing overall than those with fixed
connections, often only going online for ccertain, predetermined
actions rather than the kind of "click everything" behaviour more
often demonstrated by those with permanent Internet links.
As far as visits are concerned, my website with the highest proportion
of traffic from the UK gets around 2.2% of traffic from dialup users,
according to Google Analytics.
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Andrew Heenan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:27 am Post subject: Re: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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"Mark Goodge" <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> ...
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As far as visits are concerned, my website with the highest proportion
of traffic from the UK gets around 2.2% of traffic from dialup users,
according to Google Analytics.
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But how does that compare to UK broadband users?
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Mark Goodge
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: Re: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:27:28 +0100, Andrew Heenan put finger to
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"Mark Goodge" <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> ...
As far as visits are concerned, my website with the highest proportion
of traffic from the UK gets around 2.2% of traffic from dialup users,
according to Google Analytics.
But how does that compare to UK broadband users?
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These are the full figures for that site (in percentages):
1. DSL 45.4%
2. Unknown 23.2%
3. Cable 19.4%
4. OC3 5.1%
5. T1 4.4%
6. Dialup 2.2%
All my sites have the same order for the top three connection methods,
and broadly the same percentages. Sites with a heavier US usage get
fewer OC3 users, typically below both T1 and dialup. Some sites also
show connections from ISDN, below those of dialup.
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Arccos
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: Re: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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"ship" <shiphen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:469e1a0e-fcbf-4afa-806c-2aceeb5976fd@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
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Hi
What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup?
Any one know?
One of my team just created a web page that was 752KB including (ultra
fat) images.
and I'm trying to prove that, even when time is short, this is NOT a
good idea!
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Besides what everyone else has mentioned, keep in mind the bandwidth on your
end. That's alot of data to transfer if everyone visiting your site is going
to hit it. Depending on how you're paying for data, it could get expensive. |
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Toby A Inkster
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: What %age of surfers in the UK are still using dialup? |
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Mark Goodge wrote:
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1. DSL 45.4%
2. Unknown 23.2%
3. Cable 19.4%
4. OC3 5.1%
5. T1 4.4%
6. Dialup 2.2%
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That's quite a high level of unknowns for you to quote 2.2% as the
percentage of dial-up users. In the extreme case, those unknowns could
all be dial-up users, in which case, the percentage would be 25.4%.
More realistically, we can assume that Google's algorithm is no more
likely to detect a dial-up connection as Unknown than it is to detect a
broadband connection as unknown. Using this assumption, that the unknowns
are fairly split, we get:
DSL = 59.3%
Cable = 25.4%
OC3 = 6.7%
T1 = 5.8%
Dialup = 2.9%
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