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Web platform marketshare survey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Richer)
Fri Jun 23 16:43:13 1995
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:55:14 -0700
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From: richer@island.com (Mark Richer)
Previously there was some discussion about the relative sizes of the
Wintel, Mac, etc. platforms on the Internet. The following survey data is
interesting.
- Mark
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:14:10 -0700
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Hi folks,
The GVU Web survey has some preliminary results, and I thought a few of
them might be interesting to people here. You can find all this and much
more at:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/
I would note that my impression of market share numbers has Windows much
higher than the percentages below, in the 85/15 range.
Primary Computing Platform
The distribution of primary computing platforms across all sampled
populations closely resembles computer marketing reports: 52.0%
Windows, 26.2% Macintosh, & 8.8% Unix. These three platforms
account for 87% of all platforms reported.
These ratios differ greatly to those collected during the 2nd survey
(See: Graphs), where the distribution was: 44% Unix, 29% PC, & 19%
Macintosh. Clearly, online services providing access to the Web and
Internet have influenced and helped balanced these ratios.
Additionally, this close reflection to known numbers of computing
platform use, greatly reduces attacks on the validity of the WWW User
Surveys. It finally seems that the Web has gained acceptance in
broader based user populations and thus, increased the strength of
our data.
Not surprisingly, Prodigy users almost exclusively use Windows as
their primary computing platform (86.5%). The fact that this
percentage is not 100% indicates that some users may 1) subscribe to
Prodigy and 2) filled out the survey via Prodigy, but primarily use
other platforms, e.g. when at work, etc. We'd be really concerned if the
data did show 100% primary use of Windows as it would indicate
something awry in the data and hence possibly the validity of the
finding for this question.
Overall, women are more likely to use Windows (59.1%) than
Macintoshes (22.2%) or Unix machines (7.5%) than men.
And, for which Web servers people use - congrats to Chuck Shotton and now
the StarNine folks...
Which Server Currently Used
Overall, the most popular server is NCSA's (38.60%) followed by
MacHTTP (20.79%) and CERN's (18.46%).
cheers ... -Adam
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