Survival of URLs / Plain text / Non-American users

[Humbert Suarez]

A more plausible interpretation of the better connection rates
overseas revolves around the following:

  1)  Usage of the net is more widespread in the U.S.; Web servers
	are thus more commonly overloaded. There are many more
	Web sites in US than abroad (don't ask me for hard figures),
	and many more users of the Web; the majority of the Web is
	still in english.

  2)  Related to 1, lower pricing for Web access is more common
      in US, thus causing much more usage per user in US (again,
      no questions about the figures, please).

Cheers

Humbert H. Suarez, MD PhD
Polytechnic University
humbert at pride-i2.poly.edu
Medical World Search
humbert at mwsearch.com


>Re: On Mean time of Survival of URLs
>Re: Do people "pass by" plain-text sites?
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>For this site, we're beginning to check the connection rate of links on
>link lists that we include. We're finding that non-American sites are
>over-represented in the lists that have superior connection rates ... This
>seems to be an indication that non-American sites are paying more attention
>to maintaining their lists. I wonder if American net users are too
>preoccupied with the graphics on the Web to be paying attention to the
>nitty-gritty details, like connection rates.
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>The use and expressed interest in our mainly text site seems to be skewed
>toward non-American users also, as indicated particularly by e-mail
>comments, seeming to show that non-American users are more interested in
>text sites.
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>So, in reply to both threads - In talking about survival of URLs or
>interest in graphics/text, be careful to define your population - in both
>cases the situation may be quite different in different parts of the (net)
>world.
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>   --Eric
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