[ale] Some interesting web statistics

[Jay Lozier]

Interesting that Linux is so high.

Also, the site has no email or comments set up.

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:37:53 -0400, David Tomaschik  
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

> 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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