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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. If we all set up some bots... by nmoog · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...with a shiny firefox user agent string - we could easy get that figure up to 30%!

  2. Slashdotted.... by MacGod · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmmmm.... Slashdotted already.

    I have a hunch this guy's web stats are going to show a MASSIVE influx of FireFox users, then a long period of downtime...

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  3. Obvious solution by LaughingCoder · · Score: 4, Funny

    The obvious solution is to make the BBC homepage the default homepage for Firefox!

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  4. Re:errr by YowzaTheYuzzum · · Score: 3, Funny

    MSFT's unreleased os has nearly the same market share as linux?

    By that logic, Windows 98 has nearly the same market share as Windows 2000.

    Windows 2000 16.5%
    Windows 98 6.6%

  5. Re:User Agent Switcher by Vo0k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, switch to "googlebot" and have free access to all these pay-for-registration sites.

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