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Browser Detection of Website Statistics Services

Posted by timothy on from the from-one-to-another dept.

An anonymous reader submits "David Naylor has reviewed the browser recognition capabilities of seven free website statistics services. Among other things, he kills the myth that many Opera users go unaccounted for in website statistics because of the default UA spoofing. Furthermore, he shows that the quality of browser recognition ranges from absolutely abysmal to near perfect."

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  1. What would be more interesting: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The same but with web server log analyzers. For example I suspect Webalizer for not being accurate concerning user agents.

  2. Nice site name by archeopterix · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nice analysis David. I'd personally love to see Analog [analog.cx] (an oldie but googie) added to your table and my guess is that Urchin would be another popular one.
    I'm not going to click on anything that starts with "anal" and ends with ".cx".