Report: iPad grabbed 0.03 percent of all web traffic in its first week on earth
By Laura June 
posted April 17th 2010 10:10AM
posted April 17th 2010 10:10AM
Yesterday, when Apple announced it was pushing back the international launch of the iPad until the end of May, high demand was cited -- over 500,000 units delivered, it said. And today, we've got a report out from NetApplications that indicates the iPad might be quickly making inroads with users. Over the first week of the device's public availability, the report says, the iPad nabbed about 0.03 percent of all web traffic. For comparison, the iPhone averages about 0.51 percent of traffic. This number nearly matches web traffic for BlackBerrys in March -- 0.04 percent (Android grabbed up 0.07 percent, as did Windows Mobile). Of course, NetApplications tracks only a sampling of website traffic to gather its data, so we'll keep our eyes peeled for longer term trends.
@Ruthless DO YOU VISIT FLASH BASED SITES?
@Toshiba CAN YOU MULTITASK?
@Ruthless Iphone has highest throughput usage because it uses 10x more bandwith than other mobile devices. Most users dont know this though, and if they ever put an iphone on a per data use contract.. have fun with that.
@Toshiba
The iPad runs on a mobile OS and uses a mobile browser. When you go to sites in Safari on the iPad it's identified as a mobile browser and will switch to a non-flash version of the site. All the whining about Flash is completely useless, pointless and ridiculous.
And of course the iPad multitasks. iPhone OS is a fully preemptive multitasking OS, and it always has been.
A lot of these may not even be iPads. I know at least 5 people who have changed their PC browser user agent string to the iPad's for testing.
@linuxamp THERE HAS ALSO BEEN SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT TOOK THEIR IPAD BACK BECAUSE THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT YOU COULD NOT VIEW FLASH BASED SITES OR MULTITIASK. STEVE JOBS SAYS YOU DON'T NEED TO MULTITASK...BUT FOR SOME REASON RELEASED THE IPHONE WITH MULTITASK. IT'S ALMOST AS IF HE IS LYING TO HIMSELF.
@Toshiba I'm multitasking on my iPhone now, listening to music while surfing the net.
Six pages open in Safari that I can jump between.
I guess you don't know what "multitask" means, oh and it also appears as if your caps lock key is broken, are you using a cheap netbook by any chance?
@hill60
Seriously. The iPhone and iPad have always had multitasking.
What is it shows is in a week it almost caught up with Blackberry and is over half Androids share.
What is shows is that Apple makes things and people use them more than they use other things.
Just wait for the other release. The web Traffic will build momentum
William, theamazingipad.com
I guess the other 99.93 % of the users were viewing flash based sites.