Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 23, 2005 @10:45PM 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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If we all set up some bots... by nmoog · 2005-10-23 22:52 · Score: 5, Funny

...with a shiny firefox user agent string - we could easy get that figure up to 30%!
Obvious solution by LaughingCoder · 2005-10-23 23:41 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:User Agent Switcher by Vo0k · 2005-10-24 00:18 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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