Letter for TradeMe
Any edits welcome. Trademe seems to keep it's physical address secret so
this would probably best be directed through media enquiries.
Letter Starts
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Who??
TradeMe
Where?? Probably by e-mail.
Date
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
223 Centaurus Road
St Martins
Christchurch 8022
Dear Sir Madam
This letter is a request from TradeMe. I have a hobby of and an interest
in Free Operating Systems. One of the questions that is most difficult
to answer is how much is free software used within New Zealand.
I am attempting to find ways to identify the ratio of users of Free
Software in New Zealand, both Browsers and Operating Systems.
Unfortunately there is no simple way to do this as most free Operating
systems are installed on machines that were originally sold with OEM
Windows pre-installed.
I understand that TradeMe is New Zealand's most popular website and
personal experience has shown that TradeMe displays well in any of the
browsers on any of the operating systems I have tested on my home PC. I
believe that a summary of the browser string logs TradeMe would be an
excellent source of information to show the proportion of free software
users within New Zealand.
If possible, I would like to obtain a summary of the types of TradeMe
visitor by Operating System and Browser – in particular the percentages.
If TradeMe summarizes this information of course.
My purpose for getting this information is personal interest, I would
also like to share this information with the members of the Canterbury
Linux User's Group.
I fully understand that TradeMe has no reason to provide this
information and if there is a commercial reason that you would not do so
I fully understand. If this is the case, all I ask is that you let me know.
Yours faithfully
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Letter Ends
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote:
Hi
That's a good suggestion. I just wonder if TradeMe would respond to an
individual.
IRD is a good bet. Their stats are likely to be heavily skewed by
Corporates and their windows boxes though. I suppose the same is true
of ACC.
On the other hand, a lot of corporate now ban access to TradeMe.
Regards
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Phill Coxon wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 22:50 +1300, Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote:
As for generating stats, I'm more interested in the overall OS and
browser use. ACC is a site that probably has a broad range of
'appeal' for normal users and especially businesses.
Hmmm. If you wanted really good across the board webs stats I'd call and
write a letter to trademe.co.nz and ask them nicely.
Trademe has far broader appeal than ACC where you are immediately
reducing your target browser market to people who need information from
ACC - i.e.: people who are hurt, business owners needing info etc.
It's also the number one website in NZ.
If you want to ask a government department I'd suggest ird.govt.nz would
be better as that will cover a much wider population base (everyone's
got to pay taxes...)
