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Nick Usborne over at Marketing Experiments has an interesting article about dial up users.

This year broadband users as a proportion of all Internet
users increased an impressive 13 percentage points over the previous
February, as 68% of all US Internet users reportedly connected via
broadband.

Yes, 68% is a big figure. And broadband is great when you have big
page files, want to show large images and have some streaming videos to
share.

But if you subtract 68 from 100, you get 32.

That’s 32%. Just a hair’s width away of one third of all Internet users.

We take it as a given that everyone surely must be using broadband by now. Maybe not…

Obviously most businesses in the UK must be with entry level cost so small and it’s still a bit of an assumption on my part), but that’s no reason to forget about optimisation and choice. We must ensure we give our users the choice in how they view our web sites.

We know for instance (and admittedly the numbers are small) that we have had 5 visits this year to our web site from mobile communicators, including Sony PSP and Pocket Explorer. These numbers will grow - no doubt about it.

Big chunky graphics are great - but does the viewer care when he’s connecting on a slow connection. Me thinks not.