Text browsers and bots only load the (X)HTML file, no images or stylesheets. This results in only one file transfer, not maybe 10 or 20 when a graphical browser loads images etc. So non-graphical browsera are always undercountered
Many Bots and the Opera Browser use the User Agent String from the Internet Explorer
The graphical Browsers do have different caching and prefetching methods.
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- Text browsers and bots only load the (X)HTML file, no images or stylesheets. This results in only one file transfer, not maybe 10 or 20 when a graphical browser loads images etc. So non-graphical browsera are always undercountered
- Many Bots and the Opera Browser use the User Agent String from the Internet Explorer
- The graphical Browsers do have different caching and prefetching methods.
For more reasons you should read this article about the nonsense of browser statistics