__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Wednesday 17 January 2007 18:36 \__
> On 2007-01-17, yttrx <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:15:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft's Browser Still Loses
>>>> Ground
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market is at 14% and has
>>>>| continued to grow each of the last three months, says one
>>>>| research firm.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142
>>>
>>> Funny, but I thought Firefoxes share *A YEAR AGO* was at 15%, now it's at
>>> 14% and it's been growing? Someone is fudging numbers.
>>
>> Here's numbers that aren't fudged:
>>
>> The following statistcs reflect the last 10,000 sessions on yttrx.net:
>>
>> Mozilla Firefox 62.2%
>> Internet Explorer 14.4%
>> Safari 7.5%
>> Unknown 7.1%
>> Opera 6.4%
>> Netscape Navigator 4.61 1.0%
>> Netscape Navigator 2.0 0.5%
>> Netscape Navigator 4.0 0.2%
>> Camino 1.0.3 0.3%
>> Lynx 2.8.5dev.7 0.2%
>> Anonymouse 0.2%
>>
>> There ya go, moron. Someone certainly is fudging numbers
>> somewhere, and it isn't me.
>
> I reset my stats no long ago, but this is the last ~100 hits on
> websterscafe.com:
>
> Internet Explorer v6.0 56 39.72%
> Firefox v2.0.0.1 27 19.15%
> Internet Explorer v7.0 26 18.44%
> Firefox v1.5.0.9 17 12.06%
> Mozilla v5.0 4 2.84%
> Firefox v2.0 4 2.84%
> Firefox v1.0.7 3 2.13%
> Firefox v1.0 1 0.71%
> Firefox v1.5.0.7 1 0.71%
> Firefox v2.0.0.2 1 0.71%
> AOL v7.0 1 0.71%
>
>
> Hits from the lan arent counted, so my many, many firefox hits aren't
> there.
It's a shame that BoycottNovell will never be considered in (let alone offer
help to) these _selective_ 'studies' of Web usage. Studies are /bought/ by
companies, so the set of sites used (or surveyed people/business/whatever)
will be chosen carefully to suit the desired outcome.
>From the first 13 days of January:
Windows 55159 45.1 %
Linux 41081 33.6 %
Unknown 15958 13 %
Mac 9132 7.4 %
Firefox 75683 61.9 %
MS Internet Explorer 14429 11.8 %
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