Who's reading the site

February 4, 2005 13:50:26.228

I decided to take a look at last week's web traffic, and came to some interesting numbers. Unlike the last time I did this, I haven't split out XML access from overall access for the first set of numbers - this is overall, for all pages on the cincomsmalltalk site:

Tool	Access Percentage
Mozilla/Netscape	33%
Internet Explorer	21%
BottomFeeder	12%
Net News Wire	8%
SharpReader	3%
BlogLines	2%
NewsGator	2%
Liferea	2%
Planet Smalltalk	1%
Other	16%

Now, taking just the accesses for the XML files (which now makes up nearly 50% of all page traffic):

Tool	Access Percentage
BottomFeeder	24%
Mozilla/Netscape	16%
Net News Wire	16%
SharpReader	6%
NewsGator	5%
BlogLines	5%
Internet Explorer	3%
Liferea	3%
FeedDemon	2%
Planet Smalltalk	2%
RSS Bandit	1%
JetBrains	1%
PubSub	1%
Other	15%

I did some rounding, so some of those numbers are a bit imprecise. Still, there are some interesting things there. I have a lot of Mac users hitting the feeds, but - if they hit via the browser, they sure don't use Safari. Adoption of the Sage plugin for Mozilla seems to be going up smartly as well.

Comments

don't need to use a browser

[Troy Brumley] February 4, 2005 14:06:14.004

Well, I'm a Mac user, but I use BottomFeeder. Our feeds on this site publish the full text, so I almost never need to actually browse into the site with a browser. I use Safari 99.9% of the time anytime I do use a browser, but between BF functionality and the complete content in our feeds ... I only hit our blogs with the browser when I want to check formatting of a post or look at referrers.

Opera

[Charles A. Monteiro] February 7, 2005 14:14:47.773

If I understand it correctly Opera can mask itself as another browser. I am currently identified as an IE 6.0 browser, that is what got setup with the install. One can also identify Opera as Opera. Point being, there is probably quite a bit of Opera hiding in your stats.