Comments

• Woods

  2008-03-29 10:21:19

  OMG! :-)
  
  People are still using CP/M *and* using it browse the Net! That is just too cool :-)
  
  Hats off, kudos and much respect!

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-29 13:59:18

  Some of us are forced to use XP if we want to use other computers than ours to browse the net, so that probably explains the big amount of XP visits.

• tomek

  2008-03-29 20:01:19

  hmm... something must be in those stats...
  
  I have a web site (about 5 to 10 thousand web hits per month) and my stats give very similar percentage share, especially when it comes to FF vs IE (when comparing to this: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/29/january-stat/) but also the Lin vs Win stats are similar.
  
  On my site: FF ~ 60% vs IE ~ 13% and Win ~ 64% vs Lin ~ 32 %
  
  I thought that the numbers were caused by the specific audience of my site (a Free Software project), but if they are so similar to stats of another web site (also with a specific audience, but still a different audience), then it means something, I think.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-30 15:02:31

  A while ago it was explained that -- among a variety of factors -- niches and population samples play a tremendously significant role. Web statistics that are published by the 'big surveys' tend to just take into account the Web sites which reach a broad audience and whose Webmasters disregard privacy of visitors. You';re missing out vast bits of the whole population. Mind the headline of this post (statistics being worse than damn lies).

• CoolGuy

  2008-03-30 15:36:51

  I hit couple a fifty refresh per day over here as I have no life (ubuntu).

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-30 15:52:09

  You can probably subscribe to the comments feed or use E-mail alerts.
  
  Would the following be helpful?
  
  http://boycottnovell.com/comments/feed/

• ZiggyFish

  2008-04-13 23:19:49

  What would be good is to see the Web stats for Google. Whether directly or indirectly(though Google Ads), most people will visit that server. Also Google is a natural site.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-04-14 01:34:18

  AdSense suffers from the 'issue' that it gets blocked by those who are more Internet-savvy (usually Mac and GNU/Linux users) and Google users in general are said to be those who understand its advantage over Yahoo. So, even Google queries (query volume to take into account) and AdSense (tabbling and surfing frequency to take into account) are no good measures, but maybe something close to reality. There are other issues (some listed here) such as diversity of strings (HTTP headers), forging, bots querying Google, zombies (320,000,000 Windows PCs are zombies nowadays), Squid, etc.