I finally got details on what was going on with these statistics. My source is Ray from Bango (I think CEO), a mobile ad provider. He said:
"Hitslink produced this report by using data from their analytics customers. These people operate HTML/PC websites. They say: "You simply paste a small piece of HTML code on each page you wish to track statistics on". The 300 million or so mobile phone browser users (say 50million S60) can't or don't browse HTML sites. They browse mobile friendly sites (WAP or XHTML or iMode) which will not have this HTML code in. Considering that organizations like Bango, Admob, Peperonity, Vodafone report mobile browser traffic in the billions of pages per day, most of thse being S40 or S60 its clear that by ignoring non- HTML sites these stats are misleading and mistaken. The other headline would be "iPhone users not not seen visiting the web" becuase the providers of web sites that serve mobile phones never see them. Or iPhone browsing is only 0.0001% of internet activity. It like a survey from a wheatgrass juicing company that supplies vegetarian restaurants revealling that a survey of people eating meals served in restaurants they monitored revealed 99% were vegetarian." On Dec 3, 2007 1:51 PM, Lada Gorlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MarketShare is a good source of some recent and free statistics > frequently asked for by designers: > > Browsers: > http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0# -- Barbara Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-785-838-3003 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
