On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:02 -0500, David Boles wrote: > Look at the numbers here: > > http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp > > I appears that 'they' just missed 3.3% of the Computer users. :-) > > The solution? Make Linux more popular. Being more popular isn't always the definition of successful. I tend to believe more in the notion that it does what it's supposed to do, for those using it. Though it does help when trying to convince some web sites that they need to be more supportive of all browsers, rather than just MSIE. Web statistics are like opinions, little proof of very much, and they depend on what drew them there. My monthly stats, seem a bit higher, and it's not particularly a Linux-centric site. My logging of search queries, and supposedly most popular pages seems to have an average spread of topics, to my eye. Operating Systems Hits Percent Windows 27355 81.7 % Linux 2862 8.5 % Macintosh 2427 7.2 % Unknown 753 2.2 % AmigaOS 38 0.1 % BSD 6 0 % Symbian OS 5 0 % WebTV 4 0 % I've seen it creep up a bit, over time. But the most significant thing I'd noticed was the downward trend against MSIE. I dropped down quite some time ago, and has stayed consistently down. When others reckoned MSIE was still 80-90%, my stats had it about 60%. Browsers Hits Percent MSIE 18824 56.2 % Firefox 10753 32.1 % Safari 1565 4.6 % Mozilla 973 2.9 % Opera 862 2.5 % Unknown 186 0.5 % Konqueror 85 0.2 % Netscape 70 0.2 % iBrowse 38 0.1 % Camino 24 0 % Others 70 0.2 % Every now and then it's amusing to see a Commodore 64 in the stats. ;-) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
