I have been living in Bratislava for the last ten years and although I always told myself that there is only one road between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, miniThere is a small difference, the opposite is true. The difference between people from one country or another is truly enormous and is reflected, among other things, in the way they use the Internet, especially in the devices they access it from. The last twelve months have been very unconventional for people's behavior on the Internet, but the way Slovaks access the Internet during the pandemic is all the more strange.
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While normally already before the outbreak of the pandemic, internet access from mobile phones was slowly but surely prevailing in Europe, during the pandemic, when people spend more time at home, this approach has changed slightly and the trend of recent years has slowed down. People are once again using computers and tablets more than before, and in the Czech Republic, for example, over the past 12 months, they have been connecting to their favorite servers almost equally from computers and smartphones, while before the pandemic smartphones were slightly more prevalent. Specifically, for example, in March of this year, 49,34% of users in the Czech Republic accessed the Internet from a computer, and 46,95% from a mobile phone, the rest belong to tablets and other devices.
In Slovakia, on the other hand, mobile phones clearly dominate access to the Internet, even during the pandemic, when, on the contrary, they are still increasing, even though their number has decreased in the Czech Republic over the past twelve months. In Slovakia, in the last month, 66,96% of users accessed the Internet via phone, while only 28,24% used a computer, and the rest used a tablet or other alternatives. The behavior of Czech and Slovak users is therefore really significantly different, and while in the Czech Republic the ratio of computers and telephones regarding Internet access is still very similar, in Slovakia telephones already make up almost 70% of all devices that connect to the Internet.
If we then look at the ratio iOS and Android devices purely within the mobile phone segment, in the Czech Republic there is iOS more popular than in Slovakia. While in the Czech Republic it is used iOS for internet access in 19,81% of all users, in Slovakia it is slightly less and iOS It has 15,74% of the market. The rest in both countries is essentially made up of Android, which has 84,26% of the market in Slovakia and 80,18% of the market in the Czech Republic.
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The data used in this article comes from the company Gemius, which is well known to most owners of large websites. This is the most widely used audited measurement of website traffic in the Czech Republic/Slovakia, which is used by hundreds of the largest websites in the Czech Republic/Slovakia. If you do not use Google Analytics and want to show your data publicly, then you use Netmonitor, which then uses Gemius services to measure traffic. This is therefore truly relevant data. Although the company itself does not state anywhere what sample of the population it measures or how large the percentage deviations are, given the number of sites included and their size, it can be assumed that the deviations will indeed be minismall, in the order of low percentage units.
I guess I'm a canner, but a desktop computer has its place at home.