Re: Browser stats at the BBC

Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <BF82BFED.111C4D%chrisridd@xxxxxxx>, Chris Ridd
> <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There's an interesting analysis of web browsers used to access the BBC home
> > page, ie quite a large and popular site:
> >
> > <http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.html>
> >
> > Some nuggets - breakdown by OS:
> >
> > Windows XP 67%
> > Windows 2000 16.5%
> > Windows 98 6.6%
> > Mac 4.4%
> > [...]
> > Linux 0.41%
>
> The BBC's home page would skew toward newbies. Be-geeked Linuxoids
> would have bookmarks pointing straight to
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm

i never find the bbc's tec stuff that intresting so i tend to arrive at
bbc.co.uk have a look at news or weather or any thing they are doing,
its a good portal with lots of stuff but there are better tec web sites
out there.
>
> Scary penetration of XP, although...
>
> > Mac users - breakdown by browser:
> >
> > Safari 59%
> > Internet Explorer 30%
> > Firefox 8%
> > Netscape 1.5%
> > Mozilla 0.9%
> > Camino 0.6%
> >
> ...it might reflect as much on the age of the machine accessing the
> page as on overt os installations.
>
> The breakdown by OS X version was interesting too.
>
> "I was frustrated in my attempts to similarly breakdown the different
> versions of the Mac OS that people were using to request the BBC
> homepage. I established that from the requests we saw I could identify
> Panther as supplying 31%, Tiger supplying 21%, with Jaguar lagging
> behind at 3%. However there were 41% of requests where I could identify
> that the computer was a Mac, but not the specific version. That is
> because Safari helpfully supplies in the user agent string the WebKit
> build, allowing the precise version of the OS to be identified, but
> most other browsers do not."
>
> That's more Tigers than I would have guessed. It too might be newbie
> skewed.

maybe and also i think people using macs do tend to be more keen to
update the mac os than windows folk, even windows geeks don't seem to be
looking forward to vista. (ooh thats a odd line...)

roger
.

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