I just rediscovered this marvellous page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
Browser stats from a very mainstream, top-5 website, pure and unbiased!
One interesting question missing there: OS breakdown? Windows/Mac/Linux/various mobiles/other? Would it be feasible to list these as well?
- d.
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140911080717j10f5b64v14bb47223fe1beec@mail.gmail.com...
I just rediscovered this marvellous page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
Browser stats from a very mainstream, top-5 website, pure and unbiased!
One interesting question missing there: OS breakdown? Windows/Mac/Linux/various mobiles/other? Would it be feasible to list these as well?
Do you mean http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm?
Or perhaps you mean browser/OS combinations?
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
2009/11/8 Mark Clements (HappyDog) gmane@kennel17.co.uk:
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140911080717j10f5b64v14bb47223fe1beec@mail.gmail.com...
I just rediscovered this marvellous page: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm Browser stats from a very mainstream, top-5 website, pure and unbiased! One interesting question missing there: OS breakdown? Windows/Mac/Linux/various mobiles/other? Would it be feasible to list these as well?
Do you mean http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm?
:-D That's PRECISELY what I'm after, thank you!
Or perhaps you mean browser/OS combinations?
I think that'll do for the moment, though the combined figures would be of interest :-)
The problem these numbers solve is that most browser stat reports are a pack of lies at worst and hideously biased at best. Wikimedia sites are stupidly mainstream and long ago went beyond being the province of geeks, or even "web savvy" users. Even idiots use Wikipedia.
So the actual stats from an unbiased source with no interest in the fight are a ridiculously valuable commodity.
- d.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
Do you mean http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm?
Cool. What is the "mediawiki" browser?
Steve
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
Do you mean http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm?
Cool. What is the "mediawiki" browser?
Perhaps the fetching of description pages from Commons? Does that go via the squids?
On 08.11.2009, 18:17 David wrote:
I just rediscovered this marvellous page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
Browser stats from a very mainstream, top-5 website, pure and unbiased!
One remark about browser stats: Opera version extraction is incorrect. Since some sites have regexes that assume that major version is one character long, the Opera developers had to resort to reporting a 9.x version in the old place, and append the actual version later. So current version has user-agent string like that:
Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; ru) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01
Therefore, Opera 9.80 is not a real version and needs to be broken down further.
2009/11/8 Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com:
Since some sites have regexes that assume that major version is one character long, the Opera developers had to resort to reporting a 9.x version in the old place, and append the actual version later.
Good grief. That's one of the stupidest things I've heard in some time.
Welcome to the world of user agent strings. They're almost entirely composed of lies for browser compatibility.
- d.
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