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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:41:01 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org>
To:        Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: release usage statistics...
Message-ID:  <20030622214101.B1054@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030622191054.GA42499@huckfinn.arved.de>; from tilman@arved.de on Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:10:54PM %2B0200
References:  <7672.1056098529@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030622205952.A463@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <20030622191054.GA42499@huckfinn.arved.de>

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On 2003-06-22 21:10:54 +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> * Wolfram Schneider [So, 22 Jun 2003 at 21:02 GMT]:
> >> 
> >> I find it hard to belive that 5.x is not used...
> >> 
> >> for instance:
> >> http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/release_usage/2003/2003-06-18
> > 
> > the release usage statistic use the data from the
> > www.freebsd.org log file (field User Agent).
> > 
> > There are some problems with this basic approach:
> > 
> > 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"
> > 
> > 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 
> > useless - it is a statistic about die hard Netscape 4.x users 
> > running old FreeBSD releases.
> >
> 
> 127.0.0.1 - - [22/Jun/2003:21:05:37 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 307 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; FreeBSD 5.1-BETA; X11; i386; de, de_DE, de_DE.ISO8859-15)"
> 
> All 5.x users should start using Konqueror :-)
> 
> (At least for browing FreeBSD.org)

Hm, Konqueror use a different UserAgent format ;-/ I just fixed the
statistic tool, you will see it on the web site next morning. 
The results for the last 10 days are:

      hits     %  release
 1.   8566 25.07 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
 2.   6563 19.21 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
 3.   3950 11.56 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE
 4.   3036  8.88 FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
 5.   3005  8.79 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
 6.   1232  3.61 FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
 7.   1021  2.99 FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE
 8.    654  1.91 FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE
 9.    507  1.48 FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
10.    439  1.28 FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

-Wolfram

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org



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