[ale] Some interesting web statistics

[David Tomaschik]

I hadn't looked at these stats in a while.  I'm seeing:
47% Windows
30% Linux
16% Mac OS
3% each iOS and Android

46% Chrome
30% Firefox
10% Safari
9% IE

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> So far in June, I see about
> * 57.5% Windows (38% is Win7)
> * 21.6% Linux (16% is unknown distros)
> * 13.7% OSX
> * others.
>
> All those hits from Eastern Europe could be blog spammers. It could also be
> abused as an open-referrer website.  That is what I used to see, until I started
> using block lists and prevented redirection URLs in comments.
>
> Browsers:
> * 37.9% Chrome
> * 31.4% Firefox
> * 10.8% IE
> * 7.8% Safari
> * others.
>
> Opera is just 1.7% here and I don't recall it ever being much larger than that.
> I provide RSS feeds and aggressively block blog-spamming subnets around the
> world at the firewall.  I also block 1 Microsoft subnet after they started
> spamming. ;)
>
> Lots of automatic processing tools will spoof their OS and Browser to look like
> WinXP. It is easier to fit into the crowd.  If you look at the browser headers,
> you'll see things that don't make sense and you'll know it is a robot hitting
> your website.  We can't trust the analytic tools completely.
>
>
> On 06/16/2013 02:21 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> My best site-Linux-Stat is 11% That is about 200 times the least linuxey site.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I run a small website for a couple of friends. Looking at the statistics for
>>     the site I noticed the following for June:
>>
>>     Windows (all versions)  68.2% (42% of the total traffic XP)
>>     Linux (unknow distro)           23.4%
>>
>>     The two most popular browsers:
>>     MSIE 6.0        30.2% (All MSIE combined 45.1% of the total traffic)
>>     Opera           30.0%
>>
>>     For some odd reason this English langauge site is popular in Eastern Europe.
>>     Scratches head.
>>
>>     What struck me, in this less than scientific sample, was the extremely high
>>     percentage of Linux users visiting the site, almost a quarter. In the press
>>     typically states that Linux adoption is about 1 - 2% of all users. So I
>>     would have guessed about max of 5 - 6% for Linux on any given month.
>>     Previous months have been about 20% Linux. The high percentage of XP is much
>>     less surprising to me since this site is likely to be viewed by casual
>>     surfers not businesses. Also, there is no reported W7 or W8 traffic.
>>
>>     Also, the browser distribution does not square with the usual claims of
>>     browser usage with Opera being ~ 2% and MSIE dominated by 8 and 9. Also,
>>     only about 2/3 of all Windows users are using any version of MSIE. The Opera
>>     usage jumped from minimal to about 20% + in January.
>>
>>     I know there is a push in many countries to replace all versions of Windows
>>     with Linux across the board. Does anyone know what Linux iniatives are going
>>     in Eastern Europe or Europe?
>>
>>
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