Comments on: Total Time Spent Online is Up 24.3%

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By: tom

tom — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:06:21 +0000

The usage of internet is increasing especially in young generations. As all teens, my son spent too much time surfing the web (rather serious problem for parents nowadays). I tried to tell my 15 years old son not to spend all day on his email account but you know how they are. I decided to use ez internet timer and it works perfectly. I scheduled to turn it off when I want it to and now I am relieved.

By: EZ Computers

EZ Computers — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:48:54 +0000

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By: Bob Monkhouse

Bob Monkhouse — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:59:57 +0000

What’s the scale on the right? Minutes per day? Per person? Without this the graph doesn’t really say much.

By: axis

axis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:37:19 +0000

thing is the connections got very fast, and a lot ppl keep their comps on-line day-after-day.

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:32:40 +0000

No shit the total time goes up… the longer you live, the more time adds up.

By: Lazy Student

Lazy Student — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:01:01 +0000

Nowadays, i feel a need to go on the computer everyday. Even when im uterly bored, i still go on the computer. And look at me now, my grades have dropped, my english is becoming worst and worst, and on top of that, i cant score higher than a fiftenhundred on my SATs -.-. I just wish the computer was so addictive.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:41:18 +0000

What is the key to the right? Websites visited per day? hours per week? Hours per month? Average minutes per day? New porn sites per day? Number of lost girlfriends per minute? A chart means nothing with out data. Is this a joke?

By: Tired Student

Tired Student — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:02:49 +0000

Stumble, how I hate you :{D I have internet marketing exam in 12 dayes and this thing looked like a nice extra info for some extra point’s but in the end i got only confused, and decided to lie to my examiner that these data are 100% true.

By: nay-sayer

nay-sayer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:27:19 +0000

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. There is NO way to gage time spent online, there are too many variables. Besides, your results can only be as accurate as the base you took them from. If you only monitored 4,000 IPs, that’s hardly representative of the total population. Statistics are BS and can NEVER accurately measure…..well much of anything.

By: The Ninja's Ninja

The Ninja's Ninja — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:02:48 +0000

I blame Stumble Upon, which lead me here too :p

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:56:08 +0000

as long as i can keep using adblock i don’t care how much advertising you do online.

By: iJosh

iJosh — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:14:45 +0000

Yay. That’s exactly what we want on the internet: more ads.
Thanks, but no thanks.

By: Jay Meattle

Jay Meattle — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:51:18 +0000

@Khabalox -

* data represents U.S. online behavior - not global. Hence the “US online population” note on the chart.

* Source for this data is Compete, Inc. Details about the methodology and company can be found here: http://www.compete.com/help#snp1

* Since time is a finite quantity (each of us only has 24 hours a day - I wish I had more!), the assumption is that if one is spending more time online, one has to be spending less time doing other things. It would be interesting to dive deeper and investigate what channels are losing the U.S. consumer’s attention.

* Graph is measuring Total Time Spent Online by the U.S. online population. Anecdotally I know # of people online in the U.S. is also up during the same period — but I believe not as much as time spent per person online. More people are online, and on average each person is spending more time online.

* You raise the age old question about quantity vs. quality :) I like to think advertisers are ultimately driven by revenue and profits , and I think a more engaged audience is more likely to be more profitable — granted that however engaged an audience (depth) might be, one still needs volume (or reach).

* Increase in time spent online also means that advertisers have a bigger window of opportunity to reach their target segment online, more often.

Hope this was useful and cleared up some of your questions. Thanks for using Compete!

By: Khabalox

Khabalox — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:37:25 +0000

Your conclusion about ad spending may be correct, but is not supported by you data.

First of all, it’s not clear exactly what you’re measuring. You say “We’re spending more time online” but the corner of the graph (btw, source?) says “US online population.” Online population is not the same as time spent online.

Secondly, even if the graph is showing time rather than population, we do not know if the time spent online is decreasing the time spent consuming other ad-supported media (e.g. television, newspapers) or time spent consuming consumer-supported media (e.g. books, single player computer games).

If the graph is measuring the number of people (as I suspect) then the conclusion about the movement of advertising dollars has more merit. In fact, as someone with a modicum of experience in the advertising industry, I can say that they care more about how may people are reading a newspaper or watching a television show, rather than how long they spend doing it.