Survey Introduction - Glossary

Any Chinese citizen aged 6 and above who has used the Internet in the past six months.

 

Any netizen that has connected to the internet via broadband within the past six months. Broadband includes: xDSL, cable modem, fibre optic connections, power line connections, Ethernet, etc.

 

Any netizen that has accessed the internet via mobile phone within the past six months. This is not limited to those that have only used mobile phones to connect to the internet.

 

Any netizen that primarily resides in a rural area that has accessed the internet within the past six months.

 

Any netizen that primarily resides in an urban area that has accessed the internet within the past six months.

 

IP addresses, a fundamental internet resource, are used to identify computers, servers and other internet equipment that access the internet. Only by obtaining an IP address (regardless of the type) can one connect to the internet.

 

A string that consists of numbers, letters and hyphens (-) and is separated with dots (.). It designates a website by corresponding to an IP address. This report only refers to English-language domain names. The common domain names are separated into two categories: the first is national or regional domain names (ccTLD), such as the .cn TLD which represents China; the other is categorized as global domain names (gTLD), such as the .com, .net and .org TLDs.

 

Refers to any website that uses a domain name itself or “www. + domain name” as a URL, including websites that use .cn and other types of global domain names (gTLD). The registrants of these domain names reside in China. For example: the domain name cnnic.cn is only one website with the corresponding addresses of cnnic.cn and www.cnnic.cn. Except for these, whois.cnnic.cn, mail.cnnic.cn and other sub domains are only regarded as separate channels of this website.

 

Any webpage that does not contain “?” and input parameters. This includes: *.htm, *.html, *.shtml, *.txt, *.xml, etc.

 

Any webpage that includes “?” or input parameters. This includes ASP, PHP, PERL, CGI and other server-side-processed webpages.

 

The difference between the time the page was last updated and the time the page was searched.

 

Except where otherwise specified, the data in this report does not include Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

 

The closing date for this statistical survey was December 31, 2008.