Non-English-speaking internet users reached 50% in summer 2000. (Users
living outside the U.S. reached 50% one year earlier, in summer 1999.)
According to Global Reach, a consultancy promoting the localization of
websites, non-English-speaking users reached 52.5% in summer 2001, 57%
in December 2001, 59.8% in April 2002, 64.4% in September 2003
(including 34.9% non-English-speaking Europeans and 29.4% Asians), and
64.2% in March 2004 (including 37.9% non-English-speaking Europeans and
33% Asians). This was a turning point for a multilingual internet,
although much still needed to be done to offer more websites in
languages other than English, as well as more bilingual and
plurilingual websites.