Internet connection types for WorldVitalRecords.com users

I need to blog about technology much more than I do. There are great nuggets of technology details that cross my desk every day that I need to share. I have the goal of blogging about technology at least once a week, if not more.

As part of our research at WorldVitalRecords.com we need to know how fast our users connect to the internet. This allows us to provide the best user experience based on environment that our users have.

80.7% of our users have a high speed connection versus 89.5% of all internet users. 18.7% of our users use a dial-up modem for their internet connections. Only 9.9% of total internet user use a dial up connection.

High speed connections allow for richer multimedia usage such as flash and video. High speed also allows for large downloads such as audio or ebook downloads. And over 80% of our members can support that. But we need to ensure a quality user experience for the 20% of our users that have a dial up connection.