Comments on: Is “www” really still necessary?

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:58:14 +0000

LOL “16.6 years wasted typing ‘www.’ each day”. I waste 16.6 years a day on gchat alone.

Also, another reason to get rid of the www is that it can lead to typos like forgetting the dot, and that can lead to domain squatter proliferation. Just yesterday I typed wwwpricegrabber.com, and somebody had their fake money trap there. Doesn’t that URL seem like one PriceGrabber should’ve snapped up to redirect stupid people like me to their actual site. This just once again proves my theory that PriceGrabber stinks.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:14:23 +0000

Heck I’d say it’s worse than that. If there’s 700 million people currently using the internet (http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=849) and it takes about 0.75 seconds to type in a domain. And say every person types a domain once day, then you’ve got:

700,000,000 * 0.75 / 60 (seconds) / 60 (minutes) / 24 (hours) / 365 (days) = 16.6 years wasted typing ‘www.’ each day

Individually it might come out to, say, 5 domains a day * 0.75 * 365 (days) = 22 minutes per year

I don’t know if that calculation makes sense, but it could be pretty significant.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:23:59 +0000

Amen! “www” be gone! It would be a big deal if we could change it though–the number of man-hours that would be saved collectively around the globe by eliminating “www” would be enormous. It might not seem like much individually, but it all adds up.

It reminds me of a friend who worked at Microsoft who’s job it was to try to make Windows boot 0.5ms faster. Allowing 2 billion PCs to load 0.5ms faster helps people save time all over the globe.

I wonder how much time on average we’ve spent typing in “www”. What it be hours? Days? Weeks even?