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Kids on the Web in 2020
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Technology is what is saving us from a complete change in the way of life in a world of a raging pandemic. It keeps the educational process going, relieves the shortage of human communication and helps us to live life as fully as possible given the isolation and social distancing. Many adults, and children too, have come to realize that the computer is not just a means of entertainment, but an important tool for education, communication and personal growth.

In this article, we look at changes that occurred in children’s behavior on the Web over the past year and the pandemic period. The report is based on statistics gathered by Kaspersky Safe Kids, a software solution that protects children from unwanted content on the Internet.

How we collect our statistics

Kaspersky Safe Kids scans the contents of a Web page the child is trying to access. If the site falls into one of fourteen undesirable categories, the module sends an alert to Kaspersky Security Network. No user’s personal information is transmitted and neither is privacy compromised.

We will note two important points:
  • It is up to the parent to decide which content to block by tweaking the protective solution’s preferences. But anonymous statistics are collected for all the 14 categories.
  • Data is harvested only from computers running Windows and macOS; no mobile statistics are provided in this report.
Website categorization

Kaspersky Safe Kids filters Web content according to the following categories: In this article, we will take a closer look at the most-visited categories for the past year. We have combined the less popular ones into a separate category, with their share of alerts marked as “Other”.

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Children around the world have spent increasingly more time watching videos and listening to music. Software, Audio, Video accounted for nearly forty percent of all Safe Kids alerts over the past year. It was followed by Internet Communications with 24.16 percent and Video Games with 15.98 percent. Online stores were fourth in popularity with 11 percent and News were fifth with 5.54 percent.

Interestingly, Job Search sites with 0.89 percent attracted far more interest from teenagers than Adult Content with 0.74 percent.

Windows users spent more time watching videos, gaming and reading news than macOS users. The latter preferred chatting and spent much more time shopping online. That said, the adult content Windows users watched on the average more frequently during the year.

The pandemic forced kids to study at home, attending classes online, and we have seen how this affected their time at the computer. They less frequently visited gaming sites starting at the beginning of the year, even when compared with the September 2019 low of 16.75 percent: the figure fell to 13.26 percent in May. Meanwhile, Internet Communications showed a slight growth in April exceeding the October 2019 high by 0.85 p.p. to reach 27.51 percent.

Children visited online stores the most in the October of 2019. The category accounted for 16.93 percent of all alerts. The popularity of online shopping has steadily decreased since then, dropping by 7.57 p.p. to 9.3 percent by April, but May saw it rebound slightly. Adult Content grew somewhat (by about 0.5 p.p.) in winter, then returned to the summer 2019 levels (0.49 percent) in May.

The graph shows an abnormal drop in visits to Software, Audio, Video websites  in October. The most likely cause can be considered to be the new macOS version, Catalina, released on October 7. Users who installed the update faced issues with streaming video on YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime and many other sites. The issue affected not just the Safari browser, but Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox as well. It was fixed in November, a fact that the statistics reflect.
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