Twelve percent of all American adults have visited the website of a church or other local place of worship within the past thirty days. Extend the time period to the last six months, and the proportion nearly doubles, to 22%.There are basically three types of visitors to church websites (and note that “church” in this research refers to any local place of worship of any religion). The first type is people who are already attending that church. Among online Americans who attend worship services once a month or more, 28% have visited their own congregation’s website in the last thirty days, 44% have done so in the past six months, 57% have done so in the past year, and a total of 68% have done so at some point while attending that place of worship. Thirty-two percent of churchgoers who use the Internet have never visited their own congregation’s website (or their church does not have a website)....
