{"id":233,"date":"2003-12-23T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/online-speeds\/"},"modified":"2003-12-23T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-23T22:29:00","slug":"online-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/online-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"Online Speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending upon what you read, either &#8220;US Internet Growth and Broadband Adoption Slow&#8221; or &#8220;US Broadband Up 18% in H1&#8221;.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re both using the same reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Dec. 22 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/reports\/toc.asp?Report=106\">Pew Internet report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The size of the online U.S. adult population is 63% of all those 18 and over; online population was 126 million in August 2003.<\/li>\n<li>The size of the online population on a typical day was 66 million in August 2003<\/li>\n<li>31% of Internet users who go online from home have broadband as of August 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last number that caught my interest.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine using a dial-up connection any more and wondered how many others had made the move.&nbsp; I have friends that won&#8217;t look at anything on the internet unless they really, really need to because it takes too long to load.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Those numbers mean that only about 20% of the U.S. population (at those using home access) are surfing at high speed.&nbsp; I guess I better make my blog and website smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending upon what you read, either &#8220;US Internet Growth and Broadband Adoption Slow&#8221; or &#8220;US Broadband Up 18% in H1&#8221;.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re both using the same reports. According to a Dec. 22 Pew Internet report: The size of the online U.S. adult population is 63% of all those 18 and over; online population was 126 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}