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Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage

Posted by Zonk on from the edification-early-and-often dept.

Lord_Scrumptious writes "An interesting article titled 'The software used to access the BBC homepage' has recently been published on a blog by a BBC employee. It's all about the different browsers and operating systems accessing the BBC's homepage. The analysis is from a week of page requests in September 2005. Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer accounted for 85% of site visits, but Firefox had a very respectable 9.7% share. Even requests from Sony's handheld PSP device were recorded, but interestingly there's no mention of mobile phone devices."

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  1. LATE BREAKING NEWS!!! by koonat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    THIS JUST IN: Some people use firefox!! In an exciting twist on this top story, some people also use different operating systems!!!

    Why was this posted? This information is completely irrelevant. Is the BBC homepage supposed to reflect some important or signifigant user base? Or are you just entirely useless?

    waste of time.

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  2. Re:Finally.... by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Also, a single page view accounts for many hits on the server, one for each file (images, frames, flash, ads, css, etc).
    People who block them (ads, popus, etc) will make less hits.

  3. Re:If we all set up some bots... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, because that's the only way you'll ever be able to do it. Hahahahaahahaa

    HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA

    That is the sound of IE - nay, the world - laughing at you.