Your log file(s) record information provided by each browser. Analog, in turn, reports what it finds in your log file(s). Though it might seem reasonable to expect a browser to provide brand or vendor information, not all browsers do. When this happens, there is no simple way for any program or person to know what browser is being used. Remember, not every browser is even a browser; some are robots. Some robots include as a feature the ability to disguise identity (to prevent sites from blocking access). Your desire to be thorough in testing your site is commendable, but I suspect that the people that built the browsers that can't be easily identified aren't concerned about the appearance of your site. They probably want to get data quickly without hindrance.
HTH,
-- Duke
Margrit McIntosh wrote:
Hi,
I've been partly able to answer my own questions, by carefully decoding the server log entries, and using "BROWALIAS" to create new names. For example, I can tell how many of my IE 5 users are Mac and how many are Windows. This info then appears in the Browser Report. However, the Browser Summary breaks down the browsers by vendor. Presumably, "Netscape (compatible)" are certain browsers that act like Netscape but are not from the Netscape company or vendor. However, I still can't tell what those browsers actually are, so I can't test them and see how my web pages look in them.
-- Margrit
At 09:17 PM 1/4/2005 +0100, you wrote:
On 2005-01-04 18:53:41 -0000, Aengus wrote:
> If you look in your logfiles, you'll see that the Browser that was used
> to make each request is recorded, usually at the end of each log entry.
> These look something like this:
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)"
> "Mozilla/4.0 [en] (X11; I; Linux)"
But what is "Netscape (compatible)"?
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