Given that this is a blog for Linux IT Consultants, I found the review of web statistics (analog) interesting. There are a surprising number of readers from the Windows camp.
BTW, this is a very short time-span sampling. Notice how many are still using Windows XP vs. Vista.
Come on, now. You know you like Linux. Admit it. It runs rings around Windows. So go download yourself a copy of Linux and install it. It's FREE, you know.
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Listing operating systems, sorted by the number of requests for pages.
| no. | reqs | pages | OS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2849 | 429 | Windows |
| 2023 | 263 | Windows XP | |
| 214 | 78 | Windows Server 2003 | |
| 550 | 61 | Windows Vista/Server 2008 | |
| 54 | 21 | Windows 2000 | |
| 7 | 5 | Unknown Windows | |
| 1 | 1 | Windows 98 | |
| 2 | 526 | 417 | Known robots |
| 3 | 765 | 222 | OS unknown |
| 4 | 2172 | 158 | Unix |
| 2172 | 158 | Linux | |
| 5 | 589 | 55 | Macintosh |
BTW, this is a very short time-span sampling. Notice how many are still using Windows XP vs. Vista.
Come on, now. You know you like Linux. Admit it. It runs rings around Windows. So go download yourself a copy of Linux and install it. It's FREE, you know.
Is it me Folks? Bueler? Never mind.
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Very interesting......
If I am reading the info/data correctly. This is the accumulated data from the time the site began? (or a smaller "capture") So for (X) time you have got 6901 discreet hits?
(Discreet being MAC and/or IP addresses?)
((what if one has multiple systems on the same MAC or IP, is it that Discreet))
So you have: (in descending order)
41.28% Windows (all)
31.48% Linux/Unix (all)
11.09% Unknown
8.53% Mac
7.62% Robots
(what are the conditions for unknown & robots?)
Anyway.. It has always seemed to me Linux, has rarely been correctly accounted....
Ignored and/or discounted as anomaly, as the
powers that be, have other things to market.
Of course tech sites and those specifically interested or involved will have higher occurrence.
For Example
Our friend Adrian over at ZDnet likes to trot out Stats from Net Applications, Whether or not he, or they ever use that service.
And their Generic Stats are culled from snapshots of 40 particular, participating sites. But if one pays for better info, say a Google global filter, they get different or better info.
Another Example..
It is taken as read, that Windows (any/all) is the dominate platform >>> upwards of more than 50%.~~ The Vast Majority by any mean~~
And the majority of those when booted look for update, or WGA etc.
So, where does bandwidth/usage go?
I guess it is just how one looks at it?
The Apache access_log doesn't store references to MAC so this is unique by ip and is a scan of the current log spanning Friday through when I ran it today. I might run it against the other archived logs to see a wider historical perspective.
As I only downloaded analog logfile analyzer today, I haven't had time to get into the finer details so I am not able to answer how they parse the log to determine what constitutes a 'robot' or how they allocate to 'Unknown'. I have the source code so I should be able to grep these terms and backtrace to where they tally, or it may even be in their on-line documentation!
Website here: http://www.analog.cx/download.html
Our good friend Adrian sometimes tries to confuse with 'facts' and 'stats' but we know better!
I enjoy razzing him when I can, and I've seen you hold his feet to the fire occassionally. Still he mixes it up and keeps things interesting as bloggers go.
Thanks kilgor!! :)
P.S., here's what a typical access_log entry looks like (ip has been masked):
65.246.x.x - - [05/Oct/2008:21:42:41 -0400] "GET /mt-static/themes-base/blog.css HTTP/1.1" 200 8520 "http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/styles.css" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17"
Wanted to mention that some folks like me are more inclined to read blogs like this while at work (in tech support).
Unfortunately, although I'm 100% linux at home, I'm stuck on a windows machine here in the office. Could that be skewing the stats in some way? Maybe...
If I had a choice I would be viewing from a Linux box. I guess intentions don't really count in weblogs though huh? :-)
An interesting point. This has been a hard to pin down issue. Unfortunately Apache web logs don't supply enough information about the context.
I wonder, how many Linux users would prefer to be using Windows? ;)
Thanks for your comments!!