__/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 29 December 2006 00:25 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>> __/ [ Linonut ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 16:18 \__
>>> This is the funniest one of all:
>>>
>>> http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/December/weekday.php
>>>
>>> Weekday Stats
>>>
>>> Sunday 2247795 (7%)
>>> Monday 4339537 (15%)
>>> Tuesday 6233347 (22%)
>>> Wednesday 6079268 (21%)
>>> Thursday 4142277 (14%)
>>> Friday 2892307 (10%)
>>> Saturday 2194843 (7%)
>>>
>>> It adds up to 96% (LOL!)
>>
>> "Unknown" gets ignored (tossed way). That's GNU/Linux. I mentioned this in
>> the other post. If the stats add up to 100%, then something if fishy. In
>> busy sites, around 10% of the requests cannot be analysed or determinded
>> with confidence. Also ask yourself, /which/ Web sites are included in the
>> survey? Where are they from? What do they cover? What are their relative
>> sizes? If the same UIP comes up with different O/Ses (dual boot), how is
>> it counted? Is it being discarded?
>
> Dude, that doesn't explain the weekday error.
I think it does. And rounding errors go both way with the convention pushing
them up (8.5 -=> 9). These hits are just being tossed, rather than be
counted as unknowns, as they /should/. Microsoft will never reveal itself as
something unknown. Its products are uniform, rigid, closed source.
--
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