Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:10:54 +0200 From: Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release usage statistics... Message-ID: <20030622191054.GA42499@huckfinn.arved.de> In-Reply-To: <20030622205952.A463@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> References: <7672.1056098529@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030622205952.A463@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org>
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* Wolfram Schneider [So, 22 Jun 2003 at 21:02 GMT]: >>=20 >> I find it hard to belive that 5.x is not used... >>=20 >> for instance: >> http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/release_usage/2003/2003-06-18 >=20 > the release usage statistic use the data from the > www.freebsd.org log file (field User Agent). >=20 > There are some problems with this basic approach: >=20 > 1) browsers with a faked user agent, e.g. Opera > 2) browsers in linux emulation send Linux as OS, e.g. > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386) > 3) since some month Mozilla no nonger send the Version of FreeBSD, > only the OS and the hardware platform: "FreeBSD i386" >=20 > Point 3) is the biggest problem, because most users use Mozilla and > fewer and fewer people use Netscape 4.x ... The release statistic is now= =20 > useless - it is a statistic about die hard Netscape 4.x users=20 > running old FreeBSD releases. > 127.0.0.1 - - [22/Jun/2003:21:05:37 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 307 "-" "Mo= zilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; FreeBSD 5.1-BETA; X11; i386; de, de_D= E, de_DE.ISO8859-15)" All 5.x users should start using Konqueror :-) (At least for browing FreeBSD.org) scnr tilman =20
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