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Originally Posted by KJUN
Nanci said 10% live outside of high speed access....so that is 28 million Americans. Yep - that isn't many potential users at all!
Maybe only 5% of YOUR sites' users are on DU is because they are so slow to load that so those potential viewers go to OTHER sites that do load quicker via their server? I'm not sure your quoted statistics are meaningful.
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They actually weren't all websites I own nor were they all related to a specific subject. I did say I selected 10 randomly from
many I monitor. Being that I
am a designer/programmer, download speed is something that I
do concern myself with by using proper coding, optimization, etc...So the dial-up users have nothing to (overly) fear over something I myself have done. My monitoring tracks every single user down to the fact I can tell how long a dial up user actually was on a given site, where they are from and what pages he or she were on for how long. So yes, even those that flash on for 1 second and leave again are tracked.
My point was that 5% (or 10% per Nanci's estimate) is no where near "large" in the entire scope of things. My statistics btw were
worldwide, not restricted to the nation. Because one lives outside high speed access does not mean they
want internet access in the first place...We are also assuming the entire nation (world?) wants internet access.