This is a question about the trends of internet traffic patterns over
the last decade, and whether internet usage is more becoming more or
less international.

To what extent has the ratio of intra-national internet traffic
(traffic within a country) changed relative to inter-national traffic?
 That is, in 2005, is there a greater percentage of internet local to
a nation like the United States or others as compared to 1995?

Does anyone know of any data on the trends as between local and
international internet traffic?

Fast answer preferred, within a week at most.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 07 May 2005 18:52 PDT

What sort of traffic are you asking about?

For instance, would information on the numbers of users in each
country, and the declining dominance of the US be of interest?  How
about the numbers of emails sent to domestic vs international
addresses?  Do you want to know how many US users visit non-US sites,
and vice-versa?

Or is this more purely about the flow of information -- how many bytes
flow from NY to LA vs NY to London, say?

There have been many attempts at "mapping" the internet, and some of
them correspond to conventional geographic maps (many others don't).

I'm just trying to get a better feel of which of these tools might
best be used to answer your question.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by wuuster-ga on 08 May 2005 18:10 PDT

What you mention in both paragraphs -- all four statistics that you
mentioned -- would absolutely be of interest.

>would information on the numbers of users in each
>country, and the declining dominance of the US be of interest?  

Yes.

>How about the numbers of emails sent to domestic vs international
>addresses? 

Yes, though if it were possibly to have statistics on more countruies
than the U.S. this would be enormously helpful.

>Do you want to know how many US users visit non-US sites,
>and vice-versa?

Yes, as as much as you have, other countries too (e.g., how often do
Germans visit non-German websites?).

>Or is this more purely about the flow of information -- how many bytes
>flow from NY to LA vs NY to London, say?

That would be also be useful information.  For example, knowing how
much traffic there is on intra-U.S. backbones / Metro networks as
compared to international backbones would be enormously useful.

Three last points.  The more recent the data, the better.  Also, I am
willing to increase the payment if there is much more good
information.  Finally, statistics with identifiable sources that can
be cited would be great.