Boston — California dominates the Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's annual study of the nation's most wired cities, with San Francisco and the Silicon Valley in the lead, as expected.
Four of the Top 10 cities were in California and three other three Golden State cities made the top 20.
"It's a very large and very diverse state, yet California has been ahead of the rest of the country," said Don Willmott, the magazine's technology editor.
The magazine's study was conducted before recent power shortages plagued the state.
Silicon Valley's San Jose edged out San Francisco for first place in the study, partly because San Jose residents shopped more online and owned a greater share of domain names.
The study is in the April issue of Yahoo! Internet Life, which appears on newsstands March 20. The magazine is published under license from the online portal, but its editorial offices are separate.
The magazine based the rankings on a variety of data, including percentage of households online, proportion having high-speed connections, amount of online spending, local business presence on the Web, and sites for local government services.
The top 20 cities are:
San Jose, 33.3 points (out of 40); San Francisco, 32.5; Austin-San Marcos, Tex., 29.1; Washington, D.C., 28.1; Orange County, Calif., 26.6; Las Vegas, 26.0; Oxnard-Ventura, Calif., 25.7; Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C., 24.9; Seattle, 24.6; Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, N.J., 24.4;
New York, 24.3; Boston, 24.2; San Diego, 24.1; Oakland, Calif., 23.5; Atlanta, 22.9; Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz., 22.9; Dallas, 22.5; Los Angeles-Long Beach, 22.3; Minneapolis-St. Paul., Minn., 22.3; Bergen-Passaic, N.J., 21.8.
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