Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 30 January 2010 14:42, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
Whoops, haven't had any caffeine yet this morning, left the two links off here. They're:
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61083
Interestingly, the revision summary for that revision gives a link to general browser stats, rather than Wikimedia browser stats, which are obviously the relevant ones (although we have such high reach that there isn't a large difference). We have stats from Nov 2009 (http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm) - were those generated by a script that could be run again? Getting some trends could help us work out when to ditch IE6. The recent Google/China/IE story has received lots of coverage, including the authorities in France and Germany advising people to ditch IE entirely, so IE6 usage has probably shown a noticeable dip.
I read a note before that someone caught Microsoft's Bing making a number of requests to their site with a UA that makes it look like ie6 and inflates stats. http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/dear-microsoft
Are the stats setup to differentiate between real ie6 users and bing autosurfing?
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]