On 1 Oct 2006 at 15:04, Richard Yates wrote: > > > > The reality is there are still 70-80% IE users. > > > The breakdown at my site in 2006: > > > > > > MS Internet Explorer 75.9 % > > > The website of a client of mine has: > > > > IE 50% > > > > Windows 89.4 % > > > Macintosh 5 % > > > Windows 58% > > Unknown 15% > > Mac 12% > > > > My personal website has: > > > > Netscape (compatible) 40% > > IE 29% > > Mozilla/Firefox 7% > > Safari 1% > > Opera 1% > > > > Unknown OS 62% > > Windows 36% > > Mac 2% > > Unix 1% > > > > So, it largely depends on who the audience is for your website > > whether you are seeing 70-80% IE traffic or not. None of the sites > > I'm involved with are seeing anything close to that. > > What are the numbers when you subtract your own visits! (Just > kidding). Seriously, I am amazed the differences in these numbers. > Does anyone else have any to compare with?
Heh. You'd be right of course, as not very many people visit my website. The most traffic comes from search engine spiders/bots, which is why there's a large chunk not visible. But I only use Mozilla or Firefox and *never* IE, it does get easier to figure it out. My version of Firefox reports itself as: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5" So I don't know how my website's stats programs are categorizing it. If I used a different stats view I might get a different breakdown. I suspect it's categorizing my own visits under Netscape compatible, as it makes no sense otherwise. But I'm actually surprised that I'm only making 40% of the visits to my website! Especially in the last month, where I've been testing Wiki programs and setting one up, with lots of edits. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
