Omar El Akkad, The Globe and Mail
If the future is digital, it seems Canadians are ahead of their time.
Canucks spend more time online than anyone else on Earth, according to new data from Web research firm comScore. And it’s not even by a small margin – the average Canadian spends 43.5 hours a month on the Web, almost twice the worldwide average of 23.1 hours.
Our growing data appetite
“I can’t really give you a solid answer as to why we’re so highly engaged,” said Darrick Li, an account manager with comScore. “Since 10 years ago, since the boom of the Internet, we’ve always been at the top of online engagement.”
According to the comScore report, the number of unique online visitors in Canada hovered at about 23 million users in the fourth quarter of 2010, almost unchanged from the same period a year earlier, and less than a 10th of the number of Web users in China. Of 11 countries surveyed, Canada ranks first in the number of website visits per user per month, at 95.2, and second only to South Korea in number of pages viewed, at 3,349.
While difficult to explain, the numbers shouldn’t be all that surprising. For years, Canadians have been the most prolific users of services such as Facebook and YouTube. Late last year, video-streaming service Netflix travelled north of the border, and Canadians responded in huge numbers.
Part of the reason for this high online engagement is easy access to high-speed Internet.
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Yes, it is fair to assume that there are no Estonians living Canada gathering information from this website. It probably is fair to assume that none of those Estonians (who don't live in Canada) use the Internet! No...knowing how fellow Canadians use the internet and posting a reflection of that usage in this forum is truly not relevant. But it causes one to wonder how the previous comment even came to be posted on this website about Estonian-Canadian life if Canadian usage of the Internet is not a relevant issue at all. Juxtapose the lack of Estonians living in Canada and the obvious lack of Estonians using Canadian Internet resources, the commentator does have a point... why talk about Canadian Internet usage at all. Its not like Estonians use the Internet or depend on it to advance Estonian society, heritage or culture in Canada....No.... and there is no relevance that Internet usage in Canada and a recent attack on federal computers may affect the ways those non existing Estonian-Canadians may or may not continue to use the Internet. The first commentator is right, why bring up this issue at all. According to the first commentator, Internet usage is really not an issue at all for Estonian- Canadians.
What the what? We're now reprinting almost entire articles from Canadian major media that have northing to do with Estonia or the local community?
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