Developer Learns What People Type into the Address Bar
Developer Learns What People Type into the Address Bar
Posted 07/26/2011 at 3:08pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Developer Christopher Finke has a nice bit of data to show off today. He makes a browser add-on called URL Fixer that automatically corrects common typing errors, and recently added an opt-in setting for anonymous data collection. The resulting data shows us just what people are typing into that address bar. Turns out, this Facebook thing might make it after all.
The top domain, by a wide margin was Facebook.com with 9% of all domains typed. The next closest was Google.com, but most people have Google search bars and don’t need to visit the Google homepage. 63% of all top-level domains were ‘.com’, followed by ‘.org’, ‘.de’, and ‘.net’ all at 4%. Neither Google nor Facebook were tops in several locations including Russia, Finland, China, and Korea.
The data also indicates that 49.5% of domains are still being typed with ‘www.’ in front, even though that is not required for most sites. Think of all those wasted keystrokes. Check out the source for the rest of the charts.
Image via Christopher Finke
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kirstenallen
July 27, 2011 at 8:15pm
I wonder if the data collection is really opt-in. I could live with a couple of backspaces in entering URLs anyway.
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Holly Golightly
July 26, 2011 at 11:45pm
Cool, I am part of that 2% that uses goes someplace other than Google or FaceBook. That is pretty cool. But wow, my favorite social network has a ways of catching up worldwide. Gooo vKontakte!
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