[PLUG-Devel] surprising results in Google Analytics

[Michael J. Ryan]

If the site in question is a technology site or a linux site, and by nature of 
posting here, I would think it well could be... the results will be skewed a 
bit.  I really wish Google, ms, and yahoo would all publish their web stats. 
Would be a much better benchmark for who's using what...  Also, less than 500 
visits isn't a broad enough sample to even break the margin of error here.

On 3/11/2010 4:19 PM, Craig White wrote:
> My previous web applications were all intranet so I sort of had some
> control over who/what/how the my applications were accessed but now I
> have a week of information from Google Analytics on a public web site
> (which is getting a fair amount of traffic generated from Google
> searches) and I am seeing...
>
> Browser           Visits	
> Internet Explorer    197        42%
> Firefox              155        33%
> Safari                85        18%
> Chrome                26        5.5%
> Opera                  3<1%
> BlackBerry8900         1<1%
> SeaMonkey              1<1%
>
> OS                visits
> Windows	             318        68%
> Macintosh             65        14%
> Linux                 43         9%
> iPhone                29         6%
> Android               10         2%
> (not set)              2<  1%
> BlackBerry             1<  1%
>
> and I don't think this web site or anything that I've done would in any way influence the outcome since even my one announcement to the regular plug list was about 10 days before I started collecting Google Analytics data.
>
> This seems to suggest...
>
> - a lot of Windows users are using Firefox now
> - a lot more people are using Linux than we might be led to believe
> - the handheld devices aren't used so much for web browsing
> - the head start that Apple got with the iPhone is probably going to be caught by the androids sooner than we might have thought.
>
> just for reference... there was 1 system using Safari on Windows but all the Androids reported Safari as their web browser.
> all of the 'opera' instances were Windows and only 2 of the Chrome instances were Macintosh, the rest were Windows.
>
> and finally, Google Analytics is friggin awesome
>
> Craig
>
>

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