Web browser stats
 

Sorry if this URL has already been posted, but it's quite interesting:

http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_...increased.html

Re: Web browser stats
 

Do the stats account for the fact that most machines are sold with MSIE
installed but the owner subsequently switched to Mozilla?

History Fan wrote:
> Sorry if this URL has already been posted, but it's quite interesting:
>
> http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_...increased.html
>
>

Re: Web browser stats
 

Stubby wrote:
> Do the stats account for the fact that most machines are sold with MSIE
> installed but the owner subsequently switched to Mozilla?
>
> History Fan wrote:
>> Sorry if this URL has already been posted, but it's quite
>> interesting:
>>
>> http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_...increased.html
>>
>>

er... as I understand it -
these stats record the browser *used*
when visiting websites monitored by webstat ?

so whether IE is on the box or not is irrelevant,
unless the user is using it to visit the monitored sites.

unless I'm mistaken ?

a more interesting question ( to me at least ) would be:

of all those registered as "IE", how many are
not IE, but using some "I am IE" agent string
to access IE-only websites ?


for example - doesn't Opera identify itself as IE by default ?

Re: Web browser stats
 

fake-name wrote:
> Stubby wrote:
>> Do the stats account for the fact that most machines are sold with
>> MSIE installed but the owner subsequently switched to Mozilla?
>>
>> History Fan wrote:
>>> Sorry if this URL has already been posted, but it's quite
>>> interesting:
>>>
>>> http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_...increased.html
>>>
>>>
>
> er... as I understand it -
> these stats record the browser *used*
> when visiting websites monitored by webstat ?

Correct.

>
> so whether IE is on the box or not is irrelevant,
> unless the user is using it to visit the monitored sites.
>

Yep.

> unless I'm mistaken ?

You're not. ;-)

>
> a more interesting question ( to me at least ) would be:
>
> of all those registered as "IE", how many are
> not IE, but using some "I am IE" agent string
> to access IE-only websites ?

Somewhat possible to know, depending on the User Agent string someone is
using to "spoof" their browser's identity.
http://www.opera.com/support/search/....dml?index=570

>
>
> for example - doesn't Opera identify itself as IE by default ?

Yes. But see above.

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