If the site in question is a technology site or a linux site, and by nature of posting here, I would think it well could be... the results will be skewed a bit. I really wish Google, ms, and yahoo would all publish their web stats. Would be a much better benchmark for who's using what... Also, less than 500 visits isn't a broad enough sample to even break the margin of error here.
On 3/11/2010 4:19 PM, Craig White wrote: > My previous web applications were all intranet so I sort of had some > control over who/what/how the my applications were accessed but now I > have a week of information from Google Analytics on a public web site > (which is getting a fair amount of traffic generated from Google > searches) and I am seeing... > > Browser Visits > Internet Explorer 197 42% > Firefox 155 33% > Safari 85 18% > Chrome 26 5.5% > Opera 3<1% > BlackBerry8900 1<1% > SeaMonkey 1<1% > > OS visits > Windows 318 68% > Macintosh 65 14% > Linux 43 9% > iPhone 29 6% > Android 10 2% > (not set) 2< 1% > BlackBerry 1< 1% > > and I don't think this web site or anything that I've done would in any way > influence the outcome since even my one announcement to the regular plug list > was about 10 days before I started collecting Google Analytics data. > > This seems to suggest... > > - a lot of Windows users are using Firefox now > - a lot more people are using Linux than we might be led to believe > - the handheld devices aren't used so much for web browsing > - the head start that Apple got with the iPhone is probably going to be > caught by the androids sooner than we might have thought. > > just for reference... there was 1 system using Safari on Windows but all the > Androids reported Safari as their web browser. > all of the 'opera' instances were Windows and only 2 of the Chrome instances > were Macintosh, the rest were Windows. > > and finally, Google Analytics is friggin awesome > > Craig > > -- Michael J. Ryan - http://tracker1.info/ _______________________________________________ PLUG-devel mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel
