> * Rick Lutowski > > | (I have heard NS 4.x is 'dead', but it comprises about > | 20% of the browser market, and they keep releaseing new > | versions -- doesn't sound so dead to me! But it remains > | stuck at 1.1 also. Go figure). > > I have no idea where your numbers are from, but my numbers (which > consist of about four million hits per month on a hardware related > news site) shows that Netscape is much smaller, something like 3-4%, > Mozilla is about the same size. MSIE has ~80%, Opera har ~6-7% and > other browsers like lynx, konqueror and «other» has the rest.
Statistics for March for a site I have something to do with look like the following. The dominance of MSIE seems surprising in light of the fact that you'd probably expect the site to get a whole lot of Linux traffic. (The Konqueror figures are interesting :-).) Listing the top 20 browsers by the number of requests for pages, sorted by the number of requests for pages. #: #reqs: #pages: browser --: -------: ------: ------- 1: 1233618: 617828: MSIE : 756403: 377739: MSIE/5 : 448298: 221635: MSIE/6 : 25056: 14879: MSIE/4 : 546: 296: MSIE/3 : 16: 9: MSIE/8 : 4: 2: MSIE/7 : 8: 1: MSIE/9 2: 263393: 138332: Netscape : 211725: 113194: Netscape/4 : 38247: 18561: Netscape/6 : 3897: 2167: Netscape/3 : 140: 85: Netscape/2 : 20: 20: Netscape/17 : 48: 19: Netscape/9 : 21: 14: Netscape/666 : 13: 7: Netscape/1 : 2: 1: Netscape/0 : 2: 1: Netscape/197 3: 129776: 76457: Mozilla : 93790: 45368: Mozilla/0 : 7178: 3753: Mozilla/1 : 1070: 415: Mozilla/M18 4: 82188: 46112: Opera : 54775: 31211: Opera/6 : 26741: 14450: Opera/5 : 360: 257: Opera/3 : 312: 194: Opera/4 5: 61743: 28248: Konqueror : 58819: 27006: Konqueror/2 : 2839: 1171: Konqueror/3 : 85: 71: Konqueror/1 6: 39921: 27478: Netscape (compatible) 7: 26920: 26369: FAST-WebCrawler : 26920: 26369: FAST-WebCrawler/3 8: 16527: 15844: Wget : 16527: 15844: Wget/1 9: 15688: 15397: Googlebot : 15688: 15397: Googlebot/2 10: 29039: 14305: Galeon : 21546: 10561: Galeon/1 : 5362: 2666: Galeon/0 11: 10089: 9465: Scooter-W3.1.2 12: 6456: 5117: ia_archiver 13: 4720: 4680: larbin_2.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14: 4709: 4438: Lynx : 4508: 4246: Lynx/2 : 183: 183: Lynx/2-4-2 15: 4276: 4205: ASPSeek : 4276: 4205: ASPSeek/1 16: 4335: 3482: Teleport Pro : 4335: 3482: Teleport Pro/1 17: 2868: 2851: larbin_2.6_basileocaml [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18: 2788: 2765: larbin_2.2.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19: 1998: 1980: MumpitsCrawler 20: 1876: 1590: Openfind data gatherer, Openbot : 1876: 1590: Openfind data gatherer, Openbot/3 : 34042: 28163: [not listed: 715 browsers] -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.enworbbc@" "sirhc")) http://www.cbbrowne.com Rules of the Evil Overlord #220. "Whatever my one vulnerability is, I will fake a different one. For example, ordering all mirrors removed from the palace, screaming and flinching whenever someone accidentally holds up a mirror, etc. In the climax when the hero whips out a mirror and thrusts it at my face, my reaction will be ``Hmm...I think I need a shave.''" <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/sap.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #101. "I will not order my trusted lieutenant to kill the infant who is destined to overthrow me -- I'll do it myself." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]