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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