Subject: Stats on browser type From: "Eric K. Meyer" Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:30:39 -0500
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Subject: Stats on browser type From: "Eric K. Meyer" Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 21:30:39 -0500
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I'm looking at stats from a typical, single page of a typical, 
general-interest site, which has produced the following browser 
hit records, as determined by analysis of FULL remote_host 
environment variables. 

I'm wondering whether this sounds typical to you:

(Switch to that old monospaced font, please)

            Windows 3.1     Windows 95       Mac        Total

Netscape 1.x   4803            209           456        5468
Netscape 2.x   9439           8197          3346       20982
Netscape 3.x    427           3364           287        4078
              -----          -----          ----       -----
  Subtotal    14669          11770          4089       30528       

MSIE 2.x        446           1569            --        2015 
MSIE 3.x         --            959            --         959
MSIE 4.x?        --            328            --         328
              -----          -----          ----       -----
  Subtotal      446           2856            --        3302    

Lynx              ?              ?             ?        1681 
AOL             537             --           206         742
Prodigy         262             --            --         262

              =====          =====          =====      =====
              15914          14626          4295       36515         
                

The page received a total of 49190 hits. This is based on
browser/operating system combinations with more than 150 hits.
Information was unavilable for less than 100 of the hits, so there's
a large group of very small combinations lurking out there. (Yes,
use of the Mozilla name by non-Netscape browsers was accounted for.)

Interestingly, 31% of the 49190 hits came with graphics turned off,
even though the server is a fast one and the graphics involved were
minimal. 

I'm curious whether you folks are seeing some of the things I do 
in these numbers, but I don't want to prejudice the discussion by 
saying what it is that I see.

BTW, what the heck is MSIE 4.x?
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