Impacts
such web design
issues as:
web page load time (use of graphics, Flash,
etc.), use of multimedia such as audio, video,
Flash, etc.
|
|
commercial
income lost because visitors won't wait for pages to load:
363 million
dollars per month (worldwide)
Source:
Zona
Research
|
percentage
of visitors who will wait
for listed web page load times
|
|
|
84%
|
|
15
sec
|
51%
|
| 20
sec |
26%
|
| 40
sec |
5%
|
Source: BrowserNews,
Nov. 1998
|
percentage
of web pages accessed
at each connection speed
|
128K
or higher (broadband)
|
18.1%
|
|
56K
|
64.6%
|
| 28K
- 33K |
14.8%
|
| 14K
or lower |
2.5%
|
Source: Browser
News, April 2000
| Note:
even these statistics reflect ideal lab conditions; actual
user conditions vary. For instance, it’s not unusual for
a 56K connection to be an actual 44K speed or lower. |
|
Usage
of Flash animations as site intros
|
%
visitors who skip an introductory Flash animation
to a site
|
75%
|
|
broadband
usage statistics
cable modem and DSL
|
|
|
25
million
broadband
users worldwide
(= 5% of total
Internet user population)
|
|
2002
|
13.5
million broadband
users in the United States
(=
9% of total US
Internet user population)
|
| 2005
(projected) |
38.8
million broadband
users in the United States
|
| 2002 |
8.8
million cable modem
users in the United States
(= 65% of all broadband
users in the United States)
|
Sources:
Leichtman
Research and Parks
Associates, Aug. 2002
