Browser stats can be wrong, and they often are.
There are still too many sites with browser sniffers that use them to
redirect visitors or to block them. As a result, many of us who use
browsers and operating systems that poor developers deem to be unworthy,
have to mask our identities, or use a different OS in emulation or
switch computers briefly just to view those awful sites. Sometimes we
don't have a chance to switch back immediately.
This is very common. Opera allows you to spoof your user agent [pick
one: http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Opera/] when you're blocked
from a site that you need/want to visit [except when some fool uses
Active X]. So does the perpetually beta iCab, through a simple
preference. Using about:config in Mozilla/Firefox browsers allows you to
do the same. Then there are the anonymizers for people who really don't
want to be identified. These options have been shared for quite a few
years among Mac and other users. It's one of the early questions [How do
I view that broken site?] that many users have when they first use the
Internet.
As long as there are incompetent web developers, there will be
relatively simple ways to spoof/hide your identity. And browser stats
will continue to be inaccurate.
Betty
Admittedly this is a small sample but my stat logs back
up what Tony claimed
168,000 total page requests
160,700 Windows
5130 OS Unknown
1204 Mac
619 Unix
614 Linux
4 SunOS
1 Other Unix
209 Known robots
In percentage terms:
Windows 97.72
Unknown 1.15
MacOS .96
the rest .29
So, even assuming unknown are all Mac, 2.11%
The browser stats are just as interesting (IMO)
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