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To: Killian who wrote (17064)	11/16/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Sorta OT: From the same place as the ratings (Nielson) a little generic info on internet use: ==== -- The average time spent per person online increased approximately 44 minutes in October, jumping 9.3% to eight hours and 13 minutes per person in October from seven hours and 31 minutes in September. In August the average surfer spent seven hours and 49 minutes online. -- The number of people in U.S. households who went online in October increased by 2.8 million people, marking a 4.3% increase from September. Active Internet users grew to 67.8 million from 65.0 million people in September. The current size of the Internet universe (those who have access from home, but did not necessarily go online) increased by 3.0 million, rising 2.7%. In October there were 113.0 million people with Internet access as compared to 110.0 million in September. -- Both genders were equally represented during the month of October. Males accounted for 50.3% of all Internet users and females made up 49.7% of all surfers. Men, on average, spent eight hours and 58 minutes online, which is almost an hour and a half more than the seven hours and 28 minutes spent by women. Large Growth in Visitors to Top 25 Properties Major portals/search engines, e-commerce retailers and content providers saw increases in unique visitors to their sites during the month of October. Sites experiencing the highest increases in unique audience are: Xoom, 29.9%; Time Warner, 23.8%; Blue Mountain Arts, 24.2%; Viacom International, 17.9%; Amazon, 16.6%; About.com, 14.8%; InfoSpace, 9.7%; MSN, 9.2%; AOL Websites, 9.0%; and Yahoo!, 8.8%.