On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear webmasters and system administrators,
>
> Back on January 12, 2016 Microsoft quit providing security updates for
> IE 8, 9 and 10. Since then their usage has been declining. According
> to some websites IE 8 still has about a 5% global marketshare with IE
> 9 and 10 having about a 3% each. This means that dropping support for
> them on PHP.net would theoretically inconvenience about 11% of our
> visitors.
>
> Which is why I am writing this email: do our mirrors track user-agent
> strings? I'd like to get a better idea about our browser usage since
> February instead of relying on various third-party sites.. If this
> data is tracked is there a way to get the aggregate data? I tried
> visiting /stats/ on various mirrors and didn't seem to find any that
> have set up stats, so maybe this is a dead-end.
Not really. We don't required maintainers to provide stats, and
though a few have voluntarily done so over the years, it wouldn't give
you a good dataset because it would reflect just a few geographical
regions in the sample, not spread out as a whole.
However, if you search for a few different common strings, you can
find statistics on a ton of sites that are publicly-accessible. And
you may have better luck with an engine like Duck Duck Go in cases
like that, as opposed to the Big Guys.
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