From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 07 13:32:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 7 Dec 2001 21:32:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 73834 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 21:32:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Dec 2001 21:32:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 21:32:12 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16CSbQ-0003ps-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:32:16 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:32:16 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] [WWW] browser usage statistics (was: Big update!) Message-ID: <20011207213216.GC11025@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:48:11PM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > > http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html > > Given that Google is now the leading search engine, especially among > people willing to try new things (our target crowd), it is a valid source > for information about browser usage. > > MSIE 5.0 and 5.5 are about tied for number of users, and the both of > them have 3 times more users than Netscape 4.x, which has almost haved > in usage in the past 6 months. MSIE 6.0 is sky rocketing. (A bit of > rough math taking into account only those 4 browers, pegs IE with > 87.5%, tossing in the other broswers would lower it slightly.) > > http://browserwatch.internet.com/stats/stats.html > > BrowserWatch pegs Internet Explorer with 86.8% of users, Netscape (all > versions combined) with 6.77%, Opera and lynx with 2.2% and 1.1% > respectively. That agrees with Google's Zeitgeist data. It is worth noting that Opera masquerades as MSIE 5.0 by default. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/