[PLUG-Devel] surprising results in Google Analytics

[Jared Anderson]

At my work, there is definitely not a Linux/technology slant.  Here's a
sample of one week's traffic on our busiest site:

IE: 118,289 (69.25%)
FF: 26,316 (15.41%)
Safari: 20,086 (11.76%)
Chrome: 5,064 (2.96%)

Windows: 146,449 (85.73%)
Mac: 22,247 (13.02%)
Android: 655 (0.38%)
iPhone: 551 (0.32%)
Linux: 298 (0.17%)

IE is definitely loosing market share, but Windows is holding strong.


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 02:16 -0700, Michael J. Ryan wrote:
> > 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.
> ----
> very much NOT technology web site
>
> yes, less than 500 visits isn't broad enough to broach any margins of
> error but it is all that I have in 8 days (which I think is actually
> doing pretty good considering that 81% of my traffic is from Google
> searches) and the web site hasn't been online for a month yet. FWIW,
> according to GA, I crossed the 500 visits threshold yesterday.
>
> What I have seen is that web stats vary greatly depending upon who is
> doing the data collection and my thinking is that so far, my results are
> tracking pretty much in line with w3schools.com which definitely shows
> that IE (all versions) is very much on the decline.
>
> Also, I'm gathering that there was a fair amount of pent-up demand for a
> smart phone alternative to AT&T/iPhone and the Android has apparently
> been the one to fill the void (not the Palm Pre and definitely not
> Blackberry).
>
> so yeah, the stats probably don't mean much but they were surprising to
> me and gives me good hope for things Linux and various open source
> alternatives (FF, Safari, Android).
>
> Craig
>
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