Petrus Lundqvist wrote:
>>>"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
> --------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------
> MSIE total 1876942 83.78
> Netscape total 360458 16.09
>
MSIE totals also include AOL subscribers. AOL does have a *very* heavy
market impact, and since AOL will be using Mozilla/N6 as it's next
browser, I believe these numbers will jump very heavily in the other
direction
