2009/11/8 Mark Clements (HappyDog) <gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk>uk>:
"David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote in message
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>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 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.