7,628,390 Page Views

31. January 2006When in September 2001 we went online with our Truck Racing Website, in our wildest dreams we would not have believed that in the following year our domain got top rank on all search engines – there was a sensational total of 400,000 page views.<br />
In 2003 there was 100 percent increase, and in May 2004 we counted 1,000,000 page views (for a period of 12 months). We really didn’t think that this result could be topped.<br />
But according to Google, in 2005 there were 3,500 websites registered by Google which had a link to www.truckracing.de / www.truckrace.info, and from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005 almost 8 million pages of our truck racing information website were viewed. <br />
Certainly the internet is becoming more and more the leading info media. No other media is as quick as the net – a short time after the races the results can be looked up, and the first photographs and reports are on the net. Special statistic programmes automatically report the current scoring – and this information can be obtained worldwide. <br />
There is no doubt that the internet will supplant the traditional media; as a result publishing houses and television stations push into this new media.<br />
Moving images - as on TV monitors today - will be provided on the net in the near future, and (contrary to TV, where the station decides - in case it’s not “live” - at what time to report about something), with the internet people can decide at what time they feel like watching something. Because that was the big disadvantage with last year’s truck racing reports on Eurosport. True, they broadcast them only a few days later – as a rule on Tuesdays following the race – but who wants to sit up in the small hours to watch TV, when on Wednesdays you have to get up at daybreak to go to work.<br />
And those (at least in Germany) relying on the print media had to wait a long time. 4–6 weeks <br />
after a race they would find a report in the newspapers. Usually there had already been further races in the meantime. <br />
Hence the media most people prefer is the internet.<br />
Meanwhile 65 percent of all adult Germans are online (male adults even 73 percent) and this percentage is constantly rising. There is, however, a big difference regarding people’s education. While 86 percent of all university graduates are online, the percentage of unskilled labourers is a mere 17 percent. <br />
Many countries are far ahead of Germany; however, there are more than 8 million users with DSL access here already. And before long the majority of Germans will enjoy videos, and especially sport events of TV quality on the net.