Comments on: This site’s browser stats, updated

By: Anthony Giorgio

Anthony Giorgio — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:07:01 +0000

I wonder who the lone Netscape 4.x holdout is?

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:02:33 +0000

Tomer, RSS hits are not counted by SiteMeter. I heard back from the folks at SiteMeter, who tell me this is a bug in the way their servers were reporting FF versions. See the update to the post.

By: Tomer Chachamu

Tomer Chachamu — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:22:53 +0000

I think some of those Firefox users are using RSS.

By: Ray Ebersole

Ray Ebersole — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:12:24 +0000

I have to now agree with you about the server side issue. I ran a test on one of my blogs by resetting the sitemeter to zero and using three different computers at home with different FF settings and extensions.

The figures for my blog show FF 1.x for 2 of the 3 computers and FF 2.0.11 for the other. All 3 computers have FF 2.0.11 on them and all 3 have XP. I did not try my wife’s Vista system.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:37:45 +0000

Erik, I have a support ticket in with SiteMeter. I believe the total Firefox numbers are probably correct, but I think Ray is correct in his surmise that something is causing the version numbers to be displayed incorrectly. Given the large number, I suspect it’s server-side, not an extension (because most people don’t instal FF extensions).

Jon, most of the traffic to this site via the browser comes from Google searches, and it doesn’t include people like you who read strictly via RSS or e-mail. So by that measure it’s a pretty good indicator of casual traffic.

By: Jon Daley

Jon Daley — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:31:50 +0000

I almost never actually use a browser to read your site, so the stats are skewed for at least me.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:19:29 +0000

I think the numbers are crap. It is not possible that FF 1 is outnumbering FF2 30 times.

By: Ray Ebersole

Ray Ebersole — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:55:04 +0000

My last Firefox stats from sitemeter are the same with 1.x having a major portion, whereas 2.x had very little. I see it as a sitemeter error in detecting the Firefox version. Could it be an extension that is hiding the version from sitemeter?

By: Bill Allings

Bill Allings — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:41:07 +0000

Clearly your site meter is just broken, there is no way that Firefox 1.x has more users than Firefox 2.0

Tell your users to upgrade now because 1.x is already out of support:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021818&intsrc=hm_list

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:28:21 +0000

Are those numbers right?

Is Firefox 2.x share that low?

All those 1.x users have some serious vulnerabilties in Firefox 1.x as it is unsupported now.

By: Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Year-End Browser Stats

Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Year-End Browser Stats — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:17:43 +0000

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By: darthservo

darthservo — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:10:55 +0000

I personally like Opera much better than the others (v10 is sounding very promising). But, to each his own. Though I’m not going to go on a browser crusade for them like the FF folks.

By: Giesbert Damaschke

Giesbert Damaschke — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:27:01 +0000

“Even worse for Opera is the fact that more visitors to this Windows-focused site use Safari”

Shocking news: There are Mac-Users, who like your writing

Happy New Year!