Online behaviours.

Does anyone hava articles about online behaviour such as "What percentage of web users uses search engines how often" etc etc. Just anything from the web surfer's angle. It's for a friend's school project who contacted me and I couldn't help him so far

Cheers,

Mike

 

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/

http://www.derebote.com/googlecash/googlecash/google_statistics.htm

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Math/Statistics/

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000233.html

Here is a site with allot of stats. You could spend a week here - http://www.sree.net/stories/web.html

 

This article may be of some assistance...
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3502796

 

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Good information I will begin reading tonite.

 

One of the most interesting user studies I have seen is this one at
http://www.enquiro.com/eye-tracking-pr.asp which tracks the eyeballs of individuals doing web searches, with the eyeball positions revealing which portions of the page they are actually looking at and for how long.

 

I wonder if that eye ball thing is a direct result of almost all sites putting the navigation menu on the left hand side. I mean, I know we read from left to right, but still, the pattern doesn't quite fit that. It looks like they read the banner and the navigation menu.

 

That article is specific to search, although similar principles apply to most sites. It is efficient to read left to right. (try reading english right to left, each word still requires reading left to right). It has also become industry standard. Top left is also the place to confirm that you are on the right site.

Also, Try searching a version of Google in a language that doesnt read left to right http://www.google.com/search?hl=ar&q=digitalpoint&btnG=بحث+Google&lr= and you will see the reverse of that golden triangle.

 

But as you note this article is specfic to search, so there is no menu on the left hand side and I really doubt that searchers look at the top of a search results page to see if the search engine took them to some other site.

Design Agent can you supply a reference to the eyeball study on search pages in languages reading from right to left?

 

I wonder what an article on me would read like?

 

Hey ST!


There's quite a few on this site..
http://www.kelseygroup.com/

 

See I personally would be much more interested in say the same thing for an average internet shopper, this would definately help those of us in e-commerce to better design our sites to accomadate them and make life easier for everyone There may be something like this, but, I have yet to find it.