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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. Opera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My install of Opera is set to identify itself as IE to websites as I am sure many others set theirs the same way on install. So in that light, are those figures trustworthy?

  2. Slashdot stats?` by zerojoker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would be interesting too. Browser stats, OS stats ...

  3. Re:Sampling? by Spad · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He had over 33,000 different user agents to sort through - why don't you email him and offer to trawl through the 22,000 UAs making up the 5% of traffic that he didn't generate stats for.