> > "Out of 20,000+ visitors this last week, IE gets 73%, Netscape 4+ gets
> > 16% (steadily dropping) and Moz/N6 is about 0.1% (25 hits out of
> > 20,000+). This is all flavors of Moz and N6." - "benway.com",
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I've never even heard of that site before. And 20,000 visitors/week is
> pretty low. Not the best choice for a source of supposedly
> representative statistics.
How about these stats? They come from 115 very "general" sites (not
developer sites or sites that are only visited by early-adopters). If
someone doesn't believe them or think they are made up, please email me
and I can tell you exactly where I got these from and give you the URL so
you can look at it yourself - I don't want to post it to EVERYONE on
Usenet. I guarantee that they are real, no matter how dark they look for
Netscape 6.x and Mozilla. (even Internet Explorer 6 beta has more users
and that browser has only been available for about a month now). The
stats have been collected by a system that embeds a 1x1 pixel image on
a every page in 115 sites. The image exists on one stat server (actually
a CGI script) that collects all the stats and stores them in a database.
The stats here are collected from that database and are from April 2001.
browser hits percentage
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MSIE 5.x 1549314 69.16
Netscape 4.x 349077 15.58
MSIE 4.x 315581 14.09
MSIE 3.x 6440 0.29
Netscape 3.x 6421 0.29
MSIE 6.x 5485 0.24
Netscape 5.x 4183 0.19
other 2889 0.13
Netscape 6.x 693 0.03
MSIE 2.x 122 0.01
Netscape 2.x 78 0.00
Lotus-Notes 9 0.00
IBrowse 7 0.00
Netscape 1.x 6 0.00
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MSIE total 1876942 83.78
Netscape total 360458 16.09
While we're at it, here are the OS stats:
operating system hits percentage
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WindowsNT 924708 41.31
Windows98 913573 40.81
Windows95 351119 15.69
Macintosh 25034 1.12
Linux 9811 0.44
other 5444 0.24
Windows 3.1 4360 0.19
Unix 3735 0.17
Windows (32-bit) 653 0.03
Amiga 33 0.00
--------------------------------------
Windows total 2189400 67.81
Macintosh total 25034 1.12
Linux total 9811 0.44
A couple of notes:
1) Windows98 should include WindowsME, which identifies itself as 98 for
some reason.
2) I don't know what Windows (32-bit) is - I'm not responsible of
compiling these stats (a stats software is, and it's working based on
some config files that I'm not familiar with). I also don't know what
"Unix" is and what "other" is. Could be some UNIX's fall under "other"
and could be that some Linux's fall under either "other" or "Unix".
3) Netscape 5.x is Mozilla as far as I know, whereas Netscape 6.x is
exactly that.
Peppe
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