Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

Home Research Topics Internet & Technology Platforms & Services

Platforms & Services

All

Platforms & Services

Publications

Refine Your Results

  • short reads

    Majority of online Americans ‘Google themselves’

    Today marks Google’s 15th birthday, which has prompted many users to reflect on what it was like to use the search engine circa 1998. We took the opportunity to look back at Americans’ habits to “Google themselves” during the first decade of the search engine’s life and found that, after an initial increase, the activity […]

  • report

    Who’s Not Online and Why

    15% of American adults do not use the internet at all, and another 9% of adults use the internet but not at home.

  • report

    How Americans go online

    A breakdown of how internet users go online, including those with home access and the type of access, is shown in this table.

  • presentation

    The Mobile Difference

    Overview of Pew Internet’s mobile connectivity findings and their implications for libraries

  • report

    Cell Phone Activities 2013

    50% of cell owners download apps to their phones; 48% listen to music services; video calling has tripled since 2011; texting remains a popular activity

  • report

    Cell Internet Use 2013

    57% of American adults use their cell phone to go online. 21% of cell phone owners say they mostly access the internet using their phone.

  • short reads

    Planned Twitter IPO follows years of user growth

    Twitter’s announcement on Sept. 12 that it planned to go public with an initial public offering follows seven years of growth in the user of the social media platform.

  • report

    Location-Based Services

    More social media users are adding location information to their posts, and most smartphone owners use location-based information services.