On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:46, Duane wrote: > Ian G wrote: > > The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000 > > times within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet > > Services Developer Paul Mutton. > > Actually I meant to comment on this specifically before... > > For starters they got slashdotted, which is an extensive community of > above average users (although with some of the brain dead comments you > really have to wonder) yet you're implying the average user wants > security, if that were the case they would have had more then 100,000 > downloads for MS IE... Also most slashdot users are likely to have > access to multiple computers, so again numbers of downloads can't > directly relate to users...
You say that as if there is an implication other than that Netcraft were lucky to get a headline... > Also the implication here is downloads implying usage, I'm one of the > 60,000 but it's no longer being used, a closer indication would be the > unique IPs per hour on average over a 24 hour period... > > So while they may have been downloads, how many copies are still in use? I knew someone would point that out :-) Well, it works like this: we can only measure downloads easily, and actual usage is harder. Note that Mozilla itself measures downloads, as you can see from the Firefox press. Same goes for other projects. So what we have to do is to divide these figures and hope that eliminates most of the bias. iang -- Advances in Financial Cryptography: https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000458.html _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
