Firefox popularity

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Mark Carter

I thought it be of interest to people to see the user agents for my
website for the last month. It's interesting because Mozilla/5 has
steadily been gaining in popularity and is only a whisker behind MSIE 6.
It's not all good news, though, because there are other versions of IE
in use. For some reason Yahoo Slurp, and internet crawler, hasn't half
been crawling my site.

1 8872 (32.54%) MSIE 6
2 8263 (30.30%) Mozilla/5
3 3204 (11.75%) Yahoo! Slurp
4 1423 (5.22%) MSIE 5
5 788 (2.89%) Googlebot/2
6 706 (2.59%) msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
7 284 (1.04%) MSIE 7
8 259 (0.95%) Konqueror/3
9 151 (0.55%) UbiCrawler/v0.5beta (http://law.dsi.unimi.it/)
10 147 (0.54%) heritrix/1
11 144 (0.53%) msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
12 143 (0.52%) Opera/9
13 138 (0.51%) ConveraCrawler/0.9d
(+http://www.authoritativeweb.com/crawl)
14 135 (0.50%) Ask Jeeves/Teoma
15 115 (0.42%) shybunnie-engine\"
 
the stats are basically
~ 65-70% IE
~ 25-30% firefox - mozilla
~ 5% everything else
 
Mark said:
I thought it be of interest to people to see the user agents for my
website for the last month. It's interesting because Mozilla/5 has
steadily been gaining in popularity and is only a whisker behind MSIE 6.
It's not all good news, though, because there are other versions of IE
in use. For some reason Yahoo Slurp, and internet crawler, hasn't half
been crawling my site.

1 8872 (32.54%) MSIE 6
2 8263 (30.30%) Mozilla/5
3 3204 (11.75%) Yahoo! Slurp
4 1423 (5.22%) MSIE 5
5 788 (2.89%) Googlebot/2
6 706 (2.59%) msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
7 284 (1.04%) MSIE 7
8 259 (0.95%) Konqueror/3
9 151 (0.55%) UbiCrawler/v0.5beta (http://law.dsi.unimi.it/)
10 147 (0.54%) heritrix/1
11 144 (0.53%) msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
12 143 (0.52%) Opera/9
13 138 (0.51%) ConveraCrawler/0.9d
(+http://www.authoritativeweb.com/crawl)
14 135 (0.50%) Ask Jeeves/Teoma
15 115 (0.42%) shybunnie-engine\"
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Mark.... and how meaningful are these stats when you consider that most
browsers have a setting to 'identify as:"?
Regards
Lee

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Mark Carter said:
I thought it be of interest to people to see the user agents for my
website for the last month. It's interesting because Mozilla/5 has
steadily been gaining in popularity and is only a whisker behind MSIE
6. It's not all good news, though, because there are other versions of
Click to expand...

Mozilla/5 can refer to Firefox, Mozilla Suite (a.k.a. SeaMonkey) and
Netscape versions 7.0 and higher. For proper results, you'd have to
filter:

- If the user agent contain "Firefox" then it is Firefox
- If the user agent contain "Netscape" then it is Netscape
- If the user agent contain "SeaMonkey" or don't contain "Firefox" or
"Netscape" it is Mozilla Suite

And I think that you can configure Opera to hide itself behind a Mozilla
user agent.


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true, because there are some browsers that use the IE rendering engine
so they'll come up as IE when they really aren't (but are, depends on
what you consider IE)
 
Lee said:
Mark Carter wrote:
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Opera identifies itself as IE6 by default. Maybe most of your visitors
are Opera users, and IE has diappeared from planet earth.


NT
 
Opera identifies itself as IE6 by default. Maybe most of your visitors
are Opera users, and IE has diappeared from planet earth.


NT
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Couldn'y be that lucky, could we?
 
Mark Carter a écrit :
I thought it be of interest to people to see the user agents for my
website for the last month. It's interesting because Mozilla/5 has
steadily been gaining in popularity and is only a whisker behind MSIE 6.
It's not all good news, though, because there are other versions of IE
in use. For some reason Yahoo Slurp, and internet crawler, hasn't half
been crawling my site.

1 8872 (32.54%) MSIE 6
2 8263 (30.30%) Mozilla/5
3 3204 (11.75%) Yahoo! Slurp
4 1423 (5.22%) MSIE 5
5 788 (2.89%) Googlebot/2
6 706 (2.59%) msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
7 284 (1.04%) MSIE 7
8 259 (0.95%) Konqueror/3
9 151 (0.55%) UbiCrawler/v0.5beta (http://law.dsi.unimi.it/)
10 147 (0.54%) heritrix/1
11 144 (0.53%) msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
12 143 (0.52%) Opera/9
13 138 (0.51%) ConveraCrawler/0.9d
(+http://www.authoritativeweb.com/crawl)
14 135 (0.50%) Ask Jeeves/Teoma
15 115 (0.42%) shybunnie-engine\"
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Hereafter is what I get on my own site:

Internet explorer 6.0 1904 (77.1 %)
Firefox 1.5 232 (9.4 %)
Firefox 1.0 98 (4.0 %)
Safari 312.0 30 (1.2 %)
Internet explorer 5.5 27 (1.1 %)
Internet explorer 5.0 27 (1.1 %)
Konqueror 3.4 25 (1.0 %)
Safari 312.5 16 (0.6 %)
Safari 417.9 15 (0.6 %)
Safari 312.6 11 (0.4 %)
Mozilla 1.7 6 (0.2 %)
Internet explorer 5.2 6 (0.2 %)
Safari 125.9 5 (0.2 %)
Safari 417.8 5 (0.2 %)
Safari 412.0 5 (0.2 %)
Safari 312.3 5 (0.2 %)
Internet explorer 7.0 5 (0.2 %)
Opera 9.0 4 (0.2 %)
Opera 8.5 4 (0.2 %)
Netscape 7.0 3 (0.1 %)
Safari 416.1 3 (0.1 %)
Safari 125.1 3 (0.1 %)
Opera 7.5 3 (0.1 %)
Mozilla 1.6 2 (0.1 %)
Mozilla 1.5 2 (0.1 %)
Internet explorer 5.1 2 (0.1 %)
Netscape 7.1 2 (0.1 %)
Safari 100.0 1 (0.0 %)
Safari 412.5 1 (0.0 %)
Safari 85.7 1 (0.0 %)
Mozilla 3.0 1 (0.0 %)
Mozilla 5.0 1 (0.0 %)
Firefox 0.8 1 (0.0 %)
Opera 8.0 1 (0.0 %)
Safari 85.8 1 (0.0 %)
Konqueror 3.3 1 (0.0 %)
Unknown 1 (0.0 %)
Mozilla 1.4 1 (0.0 %)
Netscape 7.2 1 (0.0 %)
 
I thought it be of interest to people to see the user agents for my
website for the last month.
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Here's mine, too. It may be weighted quite a bit, since my pages look
like ass in IE.

Firefox 1153 43.7 %
MS Internet Explorer 1143 43.4 %
Opera 153 5.8 %
Mozilla 72 2.7 %
Unknown 67 2.5 %
W3C HTML Validator 16 0.6 %
Netscape 10 0.3 %
Konqueror 7 0.2 %
Safari 7 0.2 %
 
*ProteanThread* said:
true, because there are some browsers that use the IE rendering engine
so they'll come up as IE when they really aren't (but are, depends on
what you consider IE)


Lee wrote:
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My web site stats show roughly the same: MSIE is the most at 40%, but
quickly followed by Firefox at 37%.

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
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