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...
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Topix Local News
Herald Tribune
BoingBoing
Engadget
Lifehacker
Battelle's Searchblog
EmailBattles
O'Reilly Radar
Scripting News
enjoy...
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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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Daily List
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Re: Daily List
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Re: Daily List
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
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Re: Daily List
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With or without RSS Feeds
If you count the RSS'ed sites themselves, then about 50.
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Re: With or without RSS Feeds
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way more than 6
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
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Daily Sites
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Google Hompage
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Re: Google Hompage
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none
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40+
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This isn't the first time I've heard this.
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sites
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Re: sites
They must have patched since I played...
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wait just one second!
Where are they?
How can I find them?
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Still can't keep up
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Only a few.
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Then the rest are mostly my own sites (shaolintiger.com etc.).
Probably regularly about 10-15 a day.
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Sites
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THEN theres banking and different accounts and keeping track and college.
w000. wayyyy too many
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More than 133
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.
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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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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Sites I visit
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Half Price Geeks
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