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Majority of US Homes Now Have Broadband
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | Tom Carmony
Om Malik cites results from a recent Leichtman Research Group report on Internet access in the United States, which, for the first time, suggests that the majority of Americans now have broadband/high-speed Internet access in their homes.
Pairing that with the availability of broadband access in many work places, 72% of US Internet connections are now broadband.
So what does this mean?
From a design perspective, it offers us increased flexibility with regards to expected bandwidth and the amount and speed of content that we can present. Does it mean we should throw image optimization and careful, lightweight page coding out the window? Certainly not, as those remain hallmarks of quality design. What it does suggest, though, is a continually increasing flexibility for delivering more rich-media content to end users. While it’s still important to consider the end user connecting to your site from a 56K AOL dial-up account, you can rest assured that such bandwidth constraints are being less significant in the process of designing and delivering content on the web.