RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Brian Butterworth
Just for the record, I have a UK-focused site, so I have these figures for March 2007: HYPERLINK "http://www.ukfree.tv"www.ukfree.tv Internet explorer is 66% of all traffic. of which 7.0 52% (34.63% of total); 6.0 47% (31.4% of total), 5.0 (0.8% of total) (Firefox is 28.78% of total, Opera 1% of

Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Lockwood
I've always found that the more "technical" or "geeky" a site is, the higher %age of non-IE users you'll find. For a consumer website - IE all the way. Which goes to prove my point that real people use IE, geeks use Firefox. :-) Yesterday's stats from a (very much consumer-orientated) site tha

[backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-26 Thread Kim Plowright
Here's a chunk of stats. This is based on Page views. Anything below about 100k page views is registering as Zero percent, FYI, although each browser listed is showing *some* page impressions. 3 page views were in IE1.5! How sweet. I've stripped out the PI numbers, sorry, as I think that might be

RE: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-26 Thread Kim Plowright
Just for fun: the february data reworked to show the different flavours of IE at their appropriate % point. There's not much difference between Safari (all versions) and IE5.5 share. Again, I can't break out the different flavours of FF and Safari. Bear in mind this is % of PIs, not of users, so he

Re: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-26 Thread gareth rushgrove
Thanks Kim These are fab. Would be great if the BBC had somewhere where it published this information on a regular basis? While we're on the subject of browser testing, is anyone else using Yahoo's Graded Browser Support method? G On 26/03/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just for

RE: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-26 Thread Jeremy Stone
Martin (who might be on here later) put this article together which could also be of interest. http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php "before I knew it I was involved in a lengthy statistical analysis of the browsers and operating systems that request the BBC homepage at http://www.

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
Something I noticed earlier today - the BBC News pages show how many pages have been served in the past minute, and that cycles round with other facts about the site... When I was looking earlier this morning (around middayish) it showed over 73,000 pages served THAT MINUTE - that's insane! Right n

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
The annual report designers like big numbers too.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bb cannualreport.pdf Lots of boxes saying interesting things like: "56% of children in Great Britain aged 7-15 accessed bbc.co.uk/CBBC in December 2005" "91.6% of programming

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
Here's a thought regarding subtitling - I know that manual subtitling or on-the-fly subtitling of live programmes has come along leaps and bounds, with voice recognition technology (which sometimes kicks up amusing misunderstandings, but seems to work very well) - how long do you think it'll be bef

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Jason Cartwright
I believe these guys do most/all of it... http://www.redbeemedia.com/access/subtitling.shtml I remember watching an excellent video that showed the typing re-reading methods of subtitling. Can't find it right now, sorry. Bonus link: whilst googling around I found this little gem (if you're a font

RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread Brendan Quinn
[just saw jase's post, but dammit I've typed this out now, so I'm posting!] Red Bee Media (née BBC Broadcast) does all our subtitling. I was having a beer with someone who used to work in their subtitling area the other day, and got an interesting explanation of how it works. They actually do u

Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread K Schmitt
On 3/26/07, Brendan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pre-recorded subtitling works differently, obviously -- they can take time to pause the playout and get it right. Most of these subtitlers are ex-courtroom steganographers. this may LOOK like just a gallery of cute kittens in boxes, but

Re: [backstage] Browser Stats

2007-03-26 Thread Allan Jardine
Hello all, Fantastic information - this is very interesting indeed. Thanks to Kim for the bbc.co.uk information, Richard and Brain for their information and James for the virginradio.co.uk and the other sites. I think this allows us all to build up quite a clear picture of what the 'avera