Jupiter concentrates solely on researching the 'global Internet economy', whereas Forrester 'analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers, and society'. Like Jupiter Communications, Media Metrix carries out research about the Internet and, in June 2000, Jupiter and Media Metrix announced that they were going to merge to create 'a global leader in Internet information services' - Jupiter Media Metrix. It's a Womans World Wide Web' can be downloaded free . Recently Taylor Nelson Sofres published a global e-commerce report that can be downloaded in PDF format from their website. This year NOP have carried out a number of surveys including a 'Business Internet Survey' in March 2000 which showed that 440,000 British business establishments now have internet access.
Web hosting companies often carry out their own surveys and publish their results online.
Network Wizards provide six monthly host counts. The latest survey from January 2000 reported over 72 million hosts, up from just over 56 million at the last six month count. Their graph, which tracks progress, provides a vivid illustration of how fast growth in this area has been. The Netcraft Web Server Survey reported that, excluding sites that are simply domain name registries, there are 7.5 million active sites on 3.4 million IP addresses.