Browser use statistics

[emiller at smtpgwy.isinet.com]

     While our site may not have many Lynx users, we are still offering 
     alternatives to tables that can be read by Lynx users and non-tables 
     compatible browsers.  We are not considering a completely 
     Lynx-compatible parallel site (we don't have much that that is 
     complicated either). As we consider offering more complex 
     capabilities, it is useful to have some idea of what browsers our 
     visitors are using. 
     
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______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Re: Browser use statistics
Author:  grondin.luc at uqam.ca at INTERNET
Date:    8/5/97 10:49 AM


At 06:17 05/08/97 -0700, Elisa Miller wrote:
>     I can't speak for the rest of the world, but we have been collecting 
>     user statistics [...cut...] from what I can tell, only 
>     .5% are accessing our site with Lynx
     
We don't (well, at least I don't) have statistics by browser, but our 
weekly Web stats indicate the "top 50 client hosts accessing server"; in 
other words, the IP/name address of the clients which most accessed our Web 
site on that week.  What we see is that most of those 50 clients are local 
(on-campus), and that UNIX client hosts (hence Lynx users) amount to the 
top ten.  Conclusion: for us, we cannot ignore Lynx users. 
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            Luc Grondin
     Bibliothecaire/Librarian
     Bibliotheque des sciences
  Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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