History of the Australian web revealed
An ambitious website showing an animation of the growth of web usage in Australia has today gone live.
The History of the Australian Web project, created by the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, allows users to view the rise and fall of websites across the last eight years based on pages views, audience or time spent.The display was developed by The Interaction Consortium using data supplied by Nielsen Online.
AIMIA CEO John Butterworth said: “This project has revealed some fascinating insights into Australian web usage and creates a much needed snapshot of the Australian Internet landscape and longer-term trends.”
Sounds great – except it’s missing the first 10 years of data.
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there is a clear shift at the end of this year – i suspect because they only track particular sites once they become popular – hence you don’t get much insight into the true rise of fall of sites except the biggies…..
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It’s a great website! It is fascinating to see the growth of the likes of Facebook, Youtube and Google…
One interesting stat: CareerOne seems to have slightly more UVs than Seek but 6 times less Page Views in 2008..
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How ironic that Microosoft and Mininova overlap…
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That is just mesmerising!
Look at all those relatively little ones crumbling into oblivion every year. And the almost cancerous growth of facebook.
The best presentation of numbers I’ve seen in years!
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Congratulations to whoever pitched the idea of creating this illustration. And one big back slap to whoever agreed to put it into place! Sure, it may not be totally accurate and scientific – but then this is just an illustration.
I love it! And thanks for reporting on it – I’d not seen it covered elsewhere.
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Applied creativity at it’s best.
A dry subject turned into something fantastic. A bit overwhelming on first view, but it brings you back in to look at the details.
Thanks for the post!
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looks the same from year zero.
at an aggregated scale the excess audience/time spent has always gone social because its what people do.
would remove the flashing comet of gator.com. slipped through when nielsen wasn’t paying attention to their definitions.
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