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
>
> While we're at it, here are the OS stats:
>
> operating system hits percentage
> --------------------------------------
> 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
>
I'll tell you this, I have used I.E. for years - well, as long as it has
been out; however, I have been using Mozilla for the past month and I
have no desire to ever go back to I.E. Not now nor for the newer
version being made available in XP. Now, I am not a Microsoft hater.
Matter of fact, I love their software. But their browser doesn't have
the charm and promise that Mozilla does. I will be encouraging all my
comrades and friends to dump the I.E. browser for Mozilla.
There was a time when Netscape ruled over I.E.. Just as those numbers
changed, in I.E.'s favor, those number can be changed again. It only
takes a few multiplying. Let the news be spread - the Mozilla browser
is certainly not dead.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Wayne D. Alligood
