How Many Websites Do You Visit?
from the not-so-many dept
As people are settling in to their internet usage, it appears that many have a pretty small set list of sites they visit each day, and that's it. A study in the UK found that 51% of surfers visit six or fewer websites on a regular basis. This shouldn't be surprising. After all, we're talking about "on a regular basis" -- and just how many sites do you need on a regular basis? This is especially true if some of those sites are aggregator or portal sites that pull together services and content from a variety of other sources. This is, if anything, good news. People have found the core sites online that are useful to them, and that's what they usually visit.
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Sounds about right... by Marc J King on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 1:46pm
Wikipedia, Google Portal, GMail, (Unspecified) Forum, Reference.com, IMDB.. pretty much sums it up. Additional sites are either linked from the previous, or found searching for something specific.
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Daily List by James on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 1:59pm
This site is one of my 6
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Re: Daily List by luke0db on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 2:20pm
google, gmail, craigslist
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With or without RSS Feeds by DB on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 2:31pm
If you only count the page that has my RSS feeds, then 1 site.
If you count the RSS'ed sites themselves, then about 50.
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way more than 6 by bob on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 2:32pm
I have a rotation of 10 news sites, 13 humor sites, 1 BBS, and Yahoo Mail that I visit daily. As well as some weekly sites and some every-other-day sites.
Of the news sites, most are headline aggregators like techdirt, Metafilter, Fark, etc. So, I end up visiting far more than even my base number of sites.
As it is, between all of those, I can usually cover all of my sites between the time during Breakfast and Lunch.
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Sounds About Right by Sean on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 2:45pm
Yep, I'd say I have a set 6-8 that I visit each day out of habit. If I get really bored I use the Stumble Upon extension for Firefox to find some other cool sites.
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Daily Sites by Michael Christy on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 2:46pm
I visit around 20-30 sites a day.
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Google Hompage by Moremoe on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 3:05pm
I have my Google homepage set to bring in like 10-12 rss feeds and thats like 1000s of pages a day.
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Re: Google Hompage by Jermaine Jackson on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 3:13pm
yes, but do you go to all 1000 of them?
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none by erbbysam on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 3:35pm
I link google.com to this which I then read almost every story posted here :D
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40+ by Big Dogs on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 4:10pm
5 days a week, I visit atleast 40 different websites, but 7 days a week; techdirt, digg, google, gmail, and technorati.
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This isn't the first time I've heard this. by Tyler on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 4:27pm
I've heard this a couple of times now. My sites are at a count of 6, but I run 3 of them. http://www.MySpace.com, http://www.google.com, http://www.bestmyspaceprofiles.com, http://www.shoptandm.com, http://www.WSJ.com, http://www.759domains.com, and anything that StumbleUpon takes me to.
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sites by Phranq da Tank on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 4:30pm
we don't have websites in Azeroth. they are frowned upon due to their complex nature. They are more complex than 40 man riads on Onyxia... think about it...
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wait just one second! by ? on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 5:26pm
There are other websites that aren't tech dirt?
Where are they?
How can I find them?
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Re: sites by Rikko on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 6:02pm
we don't have websites in Azeroth. they are frowned upon due to their complex nature. They are more complex than 40 man riads on Onyxia... think about it...
They must have patched since I played...
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Still can't keep up by George on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 6:17pm
Right now i have 13 sites in my RSS reader and I visit probably 7-10 sites otherwise on a regular basis. I've had a tough time finding an adequate portal but if I did that I would probably visit less sites.
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Only a few. by David on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 6:22pm
I really only go to a few sites daily: CNN.com pctechbytes.com, gmail.com and my Google/ig homepage to read Tech Dirt.
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No Subject Given by ShaolinTiger on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 7:42pm
I have a few that open up as firefox homepage, google.com/ig is the main one with a load of RSS feeds plugged in and gmail (techdirt, digg, slashdot, bbc news, google headlines etc.)
Then the rest are mostly my own sites (shaolintiger.com etc.).
Probably regularly about 10-15 a day.
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Sites by fuzzmanmatt on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 8:30pm
I visit at least 25 sites every day, depending on my RSS feeds it brings in more sites that seem interesting. 11 of those sites are webcomics, but that's all in fun!
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Re: Daily List by stanton on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 8:48pm
err.. lets see..
umm
4 sreach engines
5 news sites
30-40 gameing sites...
err
10 umm no topic for them.
err and 20-40 other sites....
a day..
yesterday total of sites was 120.....
2 days ago was.
good god..
i need to stop browseing. 157
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Re: Daily List by Andrew on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 9:38pm
Stop browsing websites, and stop using the "e" before "ing."
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Re: With or without RSS Feeds by Jobe on Mar 6th, 2006 @ 11:25pm
Almost ditto. I've been using Newz Crawler, to let me read/keep up with more websites, where as before I had it, it was about 6. Now I keep adding sites, as I can browse more effeciently with Newz Crawler (no, I don't work for them, just impressed with there product).
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No Subject Given by Sohrab on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 12:59am
too many! Im on sooo many different forums. From games, to Macs, to business, to car and so forth. Then theirs movie sites i go to, news sites, different email and so forth.
THEN theres banking and different accounts and keeping track and college.
w000. wayyyy too many
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Re: Daily List by Anonymous Coward on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 5:39am
You regularly hit 4 search engine sites? Anything else but google? Nobody needs anything except google and then you can go from there. :P
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More than 133 by Just Me on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 5:42am
Sure, I use a couple of RSS content feeds, but I still click through to the articles.
Hmm, there is a fair degree of overlap, but not too bad.
freshnews.org/ = 30
www.snpx.com/pagetwo.shtml = 61
Netvibes.com (personalized) = 42
w00t.com
Hey, how come I never have time to look at gaming sites anymore?
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My Websites. by Rami Botros on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 6:18am
Home Page being Gmail.
Every three hours:
google.com/ig ; Digg.com
Ever day:
NicknameZ.tk (mine, for msn nicknames), Forever Geek , Google Blogscoped
Every few days:
www.customizegoogle.com, www.slashdot.com
-ALL PREVIOUS THROUGH RSS-
Every now and then: video.google.com ; go.to/funpic
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No Subject Given by dataguy on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 6:23am
I would say that most of the sites listed I also visit daily. A few that have not been mentioned that I use daily are:
Topix Local News
Herald Tribune
BoingBoing
Engadget
Lifehacker
Battelle's Searchblog
EmailBattles
O'Reilly Radar
Scripting News
enjoy...
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No Subject Given by dataguy on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 7:02am
While we are sharing useful sites I thought I'd give this site a boost:
Dave Pollard's Blog
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/
I don't visit the site everyday, as it would make my head explode. I would however, vote it the best blog on the planet.
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No Subject Given by Michael on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 8:49am
An interesting topic...
I visit hundreds of sites every day, as I spend the great majority of my free time online. But thinking only in terms of sites I visit very regularly, it's only a few news sites, several blogs, and google.com.
That's pretty interesting, really. I'm constantly studying and researching anything and everything I can, and I end up wandering all over the web daily. However, even though I'm spending my whole day online, my "local Internet" is only a handful of sites.
I qualify as "power surfer" based on time-spent and familiarity, but all I have is some RSS feeds and Google. Not even one bookmark.
Go figure...
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No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward on Mar 7th, 2006 @ 9:17am
It's interesting. I think what the article says is true because sites nowadays are far more expansive, dynamic, and satisfactory to the user than in the past. Who needs to go to several sites when one site has everything you need? Between imdb and wikipedia, I'm surprised the average person would need to research anything anywhere else.
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Sites I visit by Shane on Jul 8th, 2006 @ 3:57pm
I only visit Yahoo for searches and news, ebay and amazon for buying stuff, and 2 other SEO sites
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by Mark on Jul 8th, 2006 @ 3:59pm
I look through loads of sites everyday. Looking through my history I obviously have too much spare time!
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Half Price Geeks by Carlos on Aug 26th, 2006 @ 6:37pm
I mainly look at Half Price Geeks for computer repair tips. I also use google.com, digg.com and about.com as other resources.
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by Rosanna on Dec 8th, 2006 @ 9:26am
Every day I go on MySpace, Bebo, YouTube, Hotmail, Explosm and the Eve Online Website
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