This is a blog I have written to show the trends in Internet usage from the year 2006 intill 2008.
This basic trend that I find is that the amount of people in the uk is steadily increasing as the years go on, with in 2006 there was just over 14million households in the uk that had the Internet, with this rising in 2007 to just over 15million, then in 2008 it was just under 16.5 million households.
This shows that there is a steady increase of 1 million households each year. The main reason for this is the introduction of broadband, which means that homes can have very high speed internet and as time goes on it is becoming much cheaper, somtimes even beig thrown in for free on telephone packages. Because of these advancements it now means that only 9% of the uk’s population is without Internet, and this number is steadily decreasing as more and more people are seeing the benefits of things like the BBC iplayer, internet banking and shopping online.
Graph to show percentage of uk with broadband and narrowband
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/images/charts/8.gif
Graph to show world Internet usage
http://www.trefor.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/internet-growth.jpg
As you can see from the graphs Internet usage is growing and will continue to expand further in years to come
Internet sites used to gather this information where
www.statistics.gov.uk
www.google.co.uk
www.emarketer.com
