I think you can’t estimate the amount of web surfing. This is a bit tongue in cheek but a naive modelling of web surfing as a process that that leads to more surfing (links leading to links) leads to a heavy tailed distribution and that has a variance of infinity and thus a low mean doesn’t mean much (ahem).
Maybe this is behind the feeling that it takes a short time…
I think you can’t estimate the amount of web surfing. This is a bit tongue in cheek but a naive modelling of web surfing as a process that that leads to more surfing (links leading to links) leads to a heavy tailed distribution and that has a variance of infinity and thus a low mean doesn’t mean much (ahem).
Maybe this is behind the feeling that it takes a short time…