I was positively surprised looking at user agent shares for a site I'm 
responsible for, and I thought that there might be people interested in 
these numbers.

The stats are from a small greek site which went online a few weeks ago, 
and is visited mostly from Greece. This is important because Microsoft 
extremely dominates in the greek end user market. The site does not have 
more than 110-150 visits per day (according to webalizer) and so it is 
in no way representative.

Well, I got the following numbers for user agents

26.24% MSIE 5.5
22.23% MSIE 5.0
21.09% MSIE 6.0
10.18% MSIE 5.01
5.84% Mozilla/5.0       <----
2.76% Mozilla/4.75
2.37% MSIE 4.01
1.75% Mozilla/4.7
1.39% Mozilla/4.76
0.99% Mozilla/4.72
0.93% Mozilla/4.78
0.80% Septera
0.40% Mozilla/4.73
0.39% Mozilla/4.61
0.38% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)


This makes 5.84% for Mozilla that is far more I have ever seen for any 
other site (I'm looking regularly at more than 30 site stats, some of 
them with more than 1200 visits per day).

First I thought that the Mozilla hits are coming all from my own visits, 
but I confirmed that my hits correspond to only ~0,3% of the overall hits.

And now comes the interesting part that explains these numbers: the site 
(www.epe.org.gr in greek only) belongs to a newly created Informatics 
Union (Hellenic Informatics Union) where the members have graduated from 
Computer Science and Computer Engineering University Departments.

If we would agree that these people have an in depth knowledge of the 
Internet scene, and more people of this group of users, compared to 
the "ordinary" users, chooses  to use Mozilla instead of MSIE, then we 
have a strong indication that at least in the professional market 
Mozilla gets accepted.

Greetings from Greece

Stefanos Karasavvidis


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