世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com recently reported on JR Tokai Express Research’s survey into bookmarking habits. Towards the end of July they interviewed 331 internet users from their monitor group: 67.4% were male, 13.6% in their twenties, 35.3% in their thirties, 35.0% in their forties, 12.1% in their fifties, and 3.9% in their sixties.

This is an interesting set of questions, although I would have also liked to have seen Q1 as a multiple answer question. For Q3, I’d like to say I use an RSS reader, but only low-traffic sites (up to four or five new items per day) get into my reader; any more and I feel I would rather just use my bookmarks so I can scan headlines faster and easier. Incidentally, just less than half of the Japanese survey sites I regularly scan offer an RSS feed for their updates, which is a bit of a pain.

First off, they asked if people knew about “social bookmark services”. Just about 10% did, but only 3.7% actually used them. I think by social bookmarks they mean services like del.icio.us, but I’m not sure

Q1: How do use most often save web site bookmarks? (Sample size=331)

Bookmark in browser favourites	93.4%
Use net-based bookmark service	0.3%
Use social bookmarking	0.3%
Save to shortcut folder, etc	2.1%
Add to an HTML-based links collection	0.9%
Don’t save bookmarks	2.7%
Other	0.3%

Q2: About how many sites do you regularly check? (Sample size=331)

One	2.1%
Two or three	32.6%
Four or five	33.8%
Six to ten	15.7%
More than eleven	3.6%
None in particular (to end)	2.1%

Q3: How do you mainly check these sites? (Sample size=319)

Access from bookmarks	93.7%
Search for site	3.8%
Read through RSS reader	0.6%
Read through web scraper	0.6%
Other	1.3%