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Thanks to my web counter, I've been able to keep track of the relative popularity of various browsers, operating systems, and monitor setups amongst visitors to this site, so that I can keep these in mind when writing these pages.
So, without further ado, let's have a look at how visitors to this site choose to enjoy their web experience. When you've finished, use one of the links at the top of this page, or your browser's "Back" button, to return to the page you were reading.
One last thing - I'd better just explain why some entries get a rating of "0%", while others are given a rating of "-".
The reason is that I've used "-" to indicate none, as in none at all, whereas "0%" indicates the odd one or two, but not enough to be rounded up to a whole percentage point.
Browsers |
| Internet Explorer 4 | 44% |
| Internet Explorer 5 | 21% |
| Netscape Navigator 4 | 19% |
| Netscape Navigator 3 | 6% |
| Internet Explorer 2 | 5% |
| Internet Explorer 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 1% |
| Unknown Netscape Compatible | 0% |
| Internet Explorer (All versions) | 74% |
| Netscape Navigator (All versions) | 25% |
| Others | 1% |
Bill Gates must be pleased, with Internet Explorer in one form or another holding nearly three quarters of the market. Uptake of IE5 is rather slow, though, still being outnumbered 2:1 by IE4.
| Windows 95 | 48% |
| Windows 98 | 37% |
| Windows NT | 5% |
| Web TV | 5% |
| Mackintosh | 2% |
| UNIX | 1% |
| Unknown | 1% |
| Windows 3.1 | 1% |
| Windows (All 32-bit versions) | 90% |
Again, Mr Gates must be smiling with a 90% share of the OS market. What has happened to the Mackintoshes?
| 800 x 600 | 60% |
| 640 x 480 | 21% |
| 1024 x 768 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7% |
| 1600 x 1200 | 1% |
| 1152 x 864 | 0% |
| 1280 x 1024 | 0% |
So, depending on just what the "unknown" represents, about
three quarters of visitors have moved beyond
A small proportion of visitors seem to have either bigger monitors or better eyesight than I do.
| 16bit (64k colours) | 50% |
| 32bit (16M colours) | 16% |
| 24bit (16M colours) | 15% |
| 8bit (256 colours) | 13% |
| Unknown | 5% |
| 4bit (16 colours) | - |
Even allowing for the possibility that the "unknown" category represents a low colour depth, at least 95% of visitors have monitors that should be able to make a reasonable attempt at displaying graphics, with about 80% able to display photographs fairly well.
| .net (Networks) | 36% |
| .com (Commercial) | 33% |
| .uk (United Kingdom) | 13% |
| Unknown | 8% |
| .ca (Canada) | 3% |
| .au (Australia) | 1% |
| .edu (Educational) | 1% |
| .fi (Finland) | 1% |
| .org (Non-profit organisations) | 1% |
| .es (Spain) | 0% |
| .fr (France) | 0% |
| .il (Israel) | 0% |
| .jp (Japan) | 0% |
| .mx (Mexico) | 0% |
| .sg (Singapore) | 0% |
| .mil (US Department of Defense) | 0% |
| .us (United States) | 0% |
| All international domains (.com, .edu, .org, .net) | 72% |
Much of the usefulness of this table is hidden by the popularity of the international domains (although use of the .edu domain is mostly confined to the USA).
Users in the US tend to make use of international rather than country-specific domains, but a .com, .net or .org domain is by no means conclusive proof of US origin. In (for example) the UK, several ISPs use (or have used in the past) either .com (e.g. AOL, CompuServe, Waitrose) or .net (e.g. Virgin, Tesco).
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