The Internet Index

Number 21
Inspired by "Harper's Index"*
Compiled by Win Treese ( treese@OpenMarket.com)
21 January 1998

Here is Internet Index #21 annotated with sources and the directory of all editions.

Percentage of on-line users who watch TV and PC screens simultaneously: 40

Percentage of Webmasters who like the term Webmaster": 44.6

Circulation base of Web Week: 125,000
Circulation base of BusinessWeek: 1,025,000

Percentage increase in number of on-line auction sites listed by Yahoo, April to June, 1997: 140

Number of root name servers: 13

Number of miles of undersea telephone cables: 186,000
In 1997, annual percentage growth rate of data traffic on undersea telephone cables: 90

Number of free months of WebTV service advertised on Snapple bottles: 1

Percentage of software publishers offering technical support on the web: 80

Percentage growth rate, per month, in Internet access revenues (October, 1997): 24.9

Percentage of purchasing agents planning to increase use of the Internet for buying industrial supplies: 25

Percentage of apartment units in New York's Grand Millenium "CyberBuilding" equipped with T1 lines for Internet access: 100

Average number of dial-up customers for U.S. Internet service providers: 3,450
Percentage of U.S.Internet service providers expecting revenues to decline from 1996 to 1997: 2.6
Percentage of U.S. Internet service providers expecting to be acquired within three years: 15.4

Percentage growth in on-line advertising revenues from first quarter to second quarter, 1997: 65
Percentage growth in on-line advertising revenues from second quarter to third quarter, 1997: 6

Percentage of Web users who consider Web access "indispensable": 82


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