Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage

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."

Comments

Sampling?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the article:

The figures may, however, mask a slightly higher use of Linux. Since the user agents generated are more likely to be unique, they are more likely to have fallen into the statistical long tail.

What is this supposed to mean? If he has the logs he has the entire sample space. He should be able to get the exact distribution. Somebody needs to look through their statistics book for a refresher rather than throw around big words.

Site is already slashdotted

[mahesh_gharat]

Just only 10 comments and site is already slashdotted.

How about stats on slashdot readers

[gumnam]

Does slashdot publish browser/system stats about slashdot readers ? That would make interesting reading.

Re: RSS Syndication

[EddyPearson]

The great thing about the BBC is all their stories are available syndicated into RSS, and of course as a Brit and a Firfox user i have it in the in-build aggregator, so unless BBC count every RSS clickthru as wee, then the figures will DEFINATLY be off, because remember, IE doesnt have an aggregator, until crappy vista (god, it sound like a feminine hygine product!) comes out the vast majority of frontpage hits, will be through MSIE.