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Internet
March 2000
Casting the Net; Helping Ministries Weave The Web
By Paul Christensen
CONTENT and BANDWIDTH are the two hottest words in the media world today. In this first in a series of articles about the Internet, we will examine the concept of BANDWIDTH and how it is about to change the world. Is all this Internet craze for real or just a passing fad?
Well, let's do a little research in order to get to the bottom of all this on-line craziness.
| The number of US households on line as of June 1999; | more than 40 million |
| The number of US households on line by 2003: | almost 60 million |
| Total adults in the US population in 1999: | 198.4 Million. |
| Total Internet users as of Fall 1999: | 78.2 million |
| Number of Internet web sites as of September 1999: | more than 9.5 million |
How about this snapshot of the average user?
| Number of on-line sessions per month: | 16 |
| Number of unique sites visited each session: | 10 |
| Pageviews per month: | 521 |
| Pageviews per session: | 32 |
| Time spent on-line in average month: | 8:06:59 |
| Time spent on-line per average session: | 29:38 |
| Duration of Pageviews per average visit: | 0:56 |
| Average clickthrough rate as a % (to sub pages): | 0:45 |
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