Browser Usage Stats

[Gimon, Charles A]

Just for comparison, here are our brief browser (user-agent) stats for March
2001 at the Minneapolis Public Library:

IE 5 Win		30461		48.4%
Netscape 4 Win	13518		21.5%
IE 4 Win		 4992		 7.9%
Netscape 4 Mac	 3578		 5.7%
IE 5 Mac		 2093		 3.3%

These numbers are hits, not visitors, and are only counting hits from
outside our network. Total was 62962. The actual number of "visitors" this
represents is about 20000.

Note that this leaves a good 13% or so of "Miscellaneous", a wide assortment
of :

older browsers, 
new or beta versions of browsers (almost no Netscape 6!),
about 1% Netscape on Linux/Unix, 
robots (the most important visitors to your site),
libwww-perl, Java, and other programming modules,
WAP browsers, 
WebTV, I-Opener, Sega and other appliances/game consoles,

and the truly miscellaneous left after those categories.

We also have to take into account that:

--these numbers represent only about 30% of the usage on our public website.
Most of our usage is still coming from inside our Library, and most of that
from our public Internet workstations. Our internal machines are either old
machines running Netscape 4.7 or new machines (many Gates machines) running
IE 5.5, all on Windows.

--our INNOPAC system isn't currently set up for us to access this data (a
long story which started before I arrived here). Hits to our web catalog are
a large, and somewhat unknown, portion of our web service.
 
Your numbers WILL vary from these, and of course, absolutely everything is
subject to rapid change.

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library