WEEK 2
Technology development, especially the Internet has had enormous influence on people lives recently. It is easily noticeable in the statistics that the percentage of population that uses the Internet has steadily increased over last years. According to the statistics in the table below,
| YEAR |
Users |
Population |
% Pop. |
| 2000 |
15,400,000 |
58,789,194 |
26.2 % |
| 2005 |
35,807,929 |
59,889,407 |
59.8 % |
| 2007 |
38,512,837 |
60,363,602 |
63.8 % |
| 2009 |
48,755,000 |
61,113,205 |
79.8 % |
| 2010 |
51,442,100 |
62,348,477 |
82.5 % |
available at the link http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/uk.htm, the percentage of population in the UK using the Internet jumped dramatically from 26.2% to 82.5% and means that over 62 million people use the Internet.
According to the table below, that comes from the report published by the Office for National Statistics available at the link:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-226727
77% households had access to the Internet in 2011, and this is 20% more than in 2006. This data comes from to report published by the Office for National Statistics.
|
Year |
Households (millions) |
Percentage |
|
2006 |
14.3 |
57 |
|
2007 |
15.2 |
61 |
|
2008 |
16.5 |
65 |
|
2009 |
18.3 |
70 |
|
2010 |
19.2 |
73 |
|
2011 |
19 |
77 |
However, development of mobile technology has resulted in increase access to the Internet by mobile phones. In the research published website by Tecmark on the http://www.tecmark.co.uk/uk-mobile-internet-stats, the UK web traffic coming from mobile device went up from 0.02% to 8.09% over the period of last 2 years, which gives over 4000% growth. The below graph shows that dramatic increase in website traffic from mobiles.
Office of National Statistics also provides the most popular Internet activities. The top on the list is finding information about goods and services, with 77% users reporting this activity. 57% users use the social networking sites, eg Facebook or Twitter, and the same percentage of users use services related to travel and accommodation.
Downloading is also popular activity, and computer software including video games is purchased more often online than in traditional shops, according to the table below available on Office of National Statistic website.
|
Purchases downloaded or accessed from websites rather than delivered by post |
|
|
Per cent |
|
|
Films, music |
40 |
|
(Electronic) books, magazines, newspapers, e-learning material |
29 |
|
Computer software including video games |
54 |
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