Browser usage by useragent

Brian Wakem wrote:
> Most stats packages do a pretty poor job of determining how many vistors are
> using which browser IMO.
>
> So, I just knocked up a little script, mainly to see how much Firefox had
> penetrated the market, and to see how much IE is suffering with all its bad
> press, security flaws etc.
>
> The answer is not a lot. Here are the stats taken from 1 day picked at
> random on our website (Last Tuesday as it happens).
>
>
> Agent Hits
> MSIE 285178 [ 87.3% ]
> Googlebot 15653 [ 4.8% ]
> Firefox 12734 [ 3.9% ]
> Other 4916 [ 1.5% ]
> Mozilla 3322 [ 1.0% ]
> Yahoo! Slurp 1679 [ 0.5% ]
> Opera 1293 [ 0.4% ]
> Konqueror 962 [ 0.3% ]
> msnbot 477 [ 0.1% ]
> LWP 286 [ 0.1% ]

OK - this is by hits - which browser do you use ? 285178 hits actually
isn't a lot, when your talking about hits (not users). Often the owner
contributes a lot to a site...

Most people don't really change their browser to 'fake' a different UA
however I believe that google might (so I heard).

One of the things that has suprised me is how much of a difference,
different websites have (stats wise) in anything you can gather... IT
orientated websites, finance, "fun", business etc... all seem to have
quite different stats... Businesses often don't use anything but IE -
yet for some reason some colleges and schools seem to be using Netscape
(or Firefox)...

It is interesting to note that Netscape Navigator has pretty much
disappeared ...

G

Gerry for email use my name at dergal dt com wrote:

> Brian Wakem wrote:
>> Most stats packages do a pretty poor job of determining how many vistors
>> are using which browser IMO.
>>
>> So, I just knocked up a little script, mainly to see how much Firefox had
>> penetrated the market, and to see how much IE is suffering with all its
>> bad press, security flaws etc.
>>
>> The answer is not a lot. Here are the stats taken from 1 day picked at
>> random on our website (Last Tuesday as it happens).
>>
>>
>> Agent Hits
>> MSIE 285178 [ 87.3% ]
>> Googlebot 15653 [ 4.8% ]
>> Firefox 12734 [ 3.9% ]
>> Other 4916 [ 1.5% ]
>> Mozilla 3322 [ 1.0% ]
>> Yahoo! Slurp 1679 [ 0.5% ]
>> Opera 1293 [ 0.4% ]
>> Konqueror 962 [ 0.3% ]
>> msnbot 477 [ 0.1% ]
>> LWP 286 [ 0.1% ]
>
> OK - this is by hits - which browser do you use ? 285178 hits actually
> isn't a lot, when your talking about hits (not users). Often the owner
> contributes a lot to a site...


I use Konqueror and Firefox, mainly Konqueror. I only use IE to check
everything looks ok. I'm quite sure I didn't use IE on this particular
day.


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Ed Jay wrote:

> You mentioned this recently, but I can't find what string and where to put
> the what-string into opera6.ini. How about a clue...please.

In the [User Agent] section, there are two settings:

Spoof UserAgent ID
Spoof Version Code

The User-Agent ID controls which browser is spoofed. 1=Opera, 2=Netscape,
3=MSIE, 4=Netscape total spoof, 5=MSIE total spoof.

The version code controls the version number when spoofing Netscape.
0=5.0, 1=4.78, 2=3.0.

See http://www.opera.com/support/usingopera/operaini/#ua

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Charles Sweeney wrote:

> Bear in mind also that Opera for one can identify itself as IE, which is
> normally how I have it set.

I never do that, unless I am playing with a clueless web author's "IE
required" site.

I *want* the sites/stats to count up and reflect that I do not use IE.

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"Brian Wakem" <no@email.com> wrote in message
news:3s1hg3Flb2glU1@individual.net...
> Most stats packages do a pretty poor job of determining how many vistors
> are
> using which browser IMO.

Unfortunately statistically most sites aren't a good reflection - however
check out the BBCs stats
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...27252&from=rss

"Gerry for email use my name at dergal dt com" <sales@exleaseit.co.uk> wrote
in message news:IdS6f.46603$MF6.41460@fe1.news.blueyonder.co. uk...
>
>
> It is interesting to note that Netscape Navigator has pretty much
> disappeared ...
>

Who?

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 1435 +0100, Brian Wakem wrote:


>
> I must say I am quite shocked that IE still has such a firm grip on the
> browser market. And Googlebot produced more hits than Firefox!

Why shocked? IE had over 90% market for many years and it slipped due to
Firefox. It's not going to go down below 50% in the short time Firefox was
out.

When IE 7.0 comes out next year with tabbed browsing and the features that
made people switch to Firefox, with fixes to CSS hacks, XHTML
complianiance.. etc, I predict many users will switch back to IE and IE
will again have over 90% market share.

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