Re: [IxDA Discuss] Will's worst site

[Tim Barkow]

But it has energy-saving mode! :)  (leave the page up for 15-30 seconds)

Funny thing is, the page sets a locale cookie, which (correctly) IDs  
me as being in the US. They're just not using it for some reason?





On Jun 28, 2008, at 3:42 AM, Alexander Baxevanis wrote:


I'm curious how many people will actually land on this page.

I'd think that lots of people nowadays would just type 'bmw' on
Google, and from the UK version of Google this leads me to the UK
version of the BMW website. And if you're looking for a specific car
and you type something like 'bmw x5' you will land on the main page
for that car.

IP-based geolocation is great when it works, and crap when it doesn't,
i.e. for those who access the net through some corporate firewall
which is located in a different country. When I was working for
Motorola in the UK, I was regularly getting redirected through some
proxy in Germany (!) and I got various websites thinking I'm German. I
friend of mine working for Nokia in the UK regularly gets Finnish
versions of websites, for the same reason.

Of course, that doesn't mean you can't tweak this page a bit to allow
for easier country selection. I particularly like what SonyEricsson
has done at:

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws

Cheers,
Alex

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Will Evans  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

worst site for tonight: bmw.com -- please.

someone introduce them to the idea of ip snipping.worst site for  
tonight:

bmw.com -- please.
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You can do it!

~ will

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and what you innovate are design problems

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] REQUEST: Stats on Mac IE 5 ...

[Tim Barkow]

I just checked google analytics for one of my sites that's been  
getting a lot of mainstream traffic. In the past two months, we've  
received more than 189,000 visits. I don't see IE 5/ Mac, although I  
do see 4 visits from an unspecified IE.

Also, IE/Windows is about 45% of total visitors.



On Mar 31, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Zack Frazier wrote:
 Perhaps a bit off topic, but ...

 I was hoping a few of you might have (or wouldn't mind asking around
 to get some) stats on visitors using IE 5 on the Mac. As a percentage
 of users, I expect it to be small but I have no hard numbers.

 Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 Zack Frazier
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 VSA Partners, Inc.
 1347 South State Street
 Chicago, Illinois 60605
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