Most the time, like every average American, I’m busy throughout the day. But I’m also a computer freak and need my time with it. So I’ll stay up late and check my email, read a few blogs, etc. You get the point. Anyway, a recent 3 week study was performed by Arbor Network to observe the number of people on the internet during the night and monitor what they do as well. They made the chart above and for the average american, 11 p.m. was the hotspot hour for the internet.
2 p.m. is when the gamers (like myself) come out to play and around 8 p.m. people get their armor ready for World of Warcraft. Midnight is very popular for videos to start streaming all over the web and slowly decreases until the morning. Talking to your friends over the internet to see what they are doing is around 5 p.m. and increases by 80% til 8 a.m. in the morning.
As you can see from the chart diagram and my explanation late-nignt web surfers have a very wide broad of things to do and I thought this was a very interesting study. However if you notice, many of the things we do start to link together. Let me explain, gamers take off their armor and put down their guns to view their favorite youtube videos around 11 a.m. or 12 a.m. and in all of that they stay in touch with their friends chatting through I.M. Looks like the internet is one big happy family after all.
