__/ [ John Bailo ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 18:08 \__
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> http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats/
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> Operating System %
> 1 Windows XP 85%
> 2 Windows 2000 5%
> 3 Mac OS X 3%
> 4 Windows 98 2%
> 5 Linux 2%
> 6 Windows 2003 <1%
> 7 Windows ME <1%
> 8 Windows Vista <1%
> 9 Windows NT <1%
> 10 Mac PowerPC <1%
Bullcr*p. Where's the 'unknown' component? You can't just throw it away. It
means something. In medical imaging, for example, we must include predicated
error or noise. These are a crucial part in any statistical study. Without
error analysis, any study would get discarded and rejected. Web stats are no
exception. Linux does not identify itself as Linux/X11 quite so
consistently.
Additionally, in recent days, there has been a rise in DDOS attacks and
comment SPAM. I had ~50,000 page requests in my main site on some days, most
of which came from Windows zombies (Windows/IE). How do these fit into the
stats?
> Web Browsers
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> Web Browser %
> 1 Internet Explorer 6.0 59%
> 2 Firefox 1.5 17%
> 3 Internet Explorer 7.0 6%
> 4 Firefox 2.0 6%
> 5 Firefox 1.0 2%
> 6 Mozilla 1.8 2%
> 7 Opera 9.0 1%
> 8 Safari 2.0 1%
> 9 AOL 6.0 <1%
> 10 Safari 1.3 <1%
Which Web sites are being sampled? This matters a /lot/.
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