Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Firefox, Safari Gain on Internet Explorer in '06
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The downward trend took Internet Explorer to its lowest market
> | share percentage for the year at 79.64 percent. Internet
> | Explorer's loss turned into gains for Safari and Firefox.
> | Safari ended the year at 4.24 percent, and Firefox came
> | in at 14 percent.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/55013.html
And yet they don't bother telling how many sites were sampled, what the
content of those sites are and over how long a period of time. Makes
you wonder what LinuxInsider is trying to hide.
Reminds me of:
Why Webbrowser statistics lie and just don't say anything
,----[ Quote ]
| What do we conclude from all this? The number of hits in a log file
| doesn't say anything, it says nothing about how many people are
| using a certain browser. Ready made statistics published by so
| called "analysts" say even less - they lie. To get statistics which
| are just a little bit near reality it's not enough to have a
| program which analyzes a log file, it needs some mathematical
| background and a good understanding of what is going on there at all.
`----
http://j3e.de/statistics_lie.html
Oh WAIT!!!! - It's Roy Schestowitz the hypocrite who posted this "Why
Webbrowser statistics lie" claiming that web-stats are meaningless.
Unless they show something anti-MS in which case you are the first to
pimp them to this group.
>
> Firefox crosses the 23% frontier in Europe
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Shifting from 19.4% for the week of the 8th to the 14th of April
> | 2006, Firefox user share rose to 23.2% in the week from November 20th to
> | November 26th 2006...
> `----
>
> http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-US/Technicals/index-1-2-3-68.html
Why Webbrowser statistics lie and just don't say anything
,----[ Quote ]
| What do we conclude from all this? The number of hits in a log file
| doesn't say anything, it says nothing about how many people are
| using a certain browser. Ready made statistics published by so
| called "analysts" say even less - they lie. To get statistics which
| are just a little bit near reality it's not enough to have a
| program which analyzes a log file, it needs some mathematical
| background and a good understanding of what is going on there at all.
`----
http://j3e.de/statistics_lie.html
Oh WAIT!!!! - It's Roy Schestowitz the hypocrite who posted this "Why
Webbrowser statistics lie" claiming that web-stats are meaningless.
Unless they show something anti-MS in which case you are the first to
pimp them to this group.
|
|
