State of the Web - Jan 04

[David]

Stats for CADtutor.net - January 2004

Since I was looking through the stats for CADTutor.net, I thought I might as well publish the latest "state of the Web" details as seen through the eyes of CADTutor.
Figures are for the month of January 2004

Server Activity Totals

<TABLE>
<TR><TD>Total Sessions Served</TD><TD>75023</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Total Hits</TD><TD>4171238</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Total Page Hits</TD><TD>227901</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Total Non Page Hits</TD><TD>3943337</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Total Session Duration</TD><TD>12369605s</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Total Transferred</TD><TD> 13.44 GB</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Most active browsers by brand preference

<TABLE>
<TR><TD>MSIE </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>64320</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(85.7% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Robot </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>2880</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(3.8% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Mozilla Compatible </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>2853</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(3.8% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Unknown </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>1630</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.2% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Netscape Gecko </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>1412</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.9% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Opera </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>872</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.2% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Netscape </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>735</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Mozilla </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>305</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(0.4% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>WebTV </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>8</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(0.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Java </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>6</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(0.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Most active user operating systems used for access

<TABLE>
<TR><TD>Windows XP </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>37268</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(49.7% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows 2000 </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>13166</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(17.5% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows 98 </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>10395</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(13.9% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Unknown </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>7067</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(9.4% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows Me </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>3617</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(4.8% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows NT </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>1368</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.8% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Macintosh PowerPC </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>1023</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.4% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows 95 </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>718</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(1.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Unix Linux </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>183</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(0.2% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Windows Unknown </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>135</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(0.2% of all sessions)</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Most active robots

<TABLE>
<TR><TD>Googlebot/2.1</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>848</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(18.8% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Scooter/3.3_SF</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>811</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(18.0% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>?</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>462</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(10.2% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat)</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>297</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(6.6% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/si)</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>200</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(4.4% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Avant Browser</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>114</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.5% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Mozilla/4.0</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>99</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.2% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>webcollage/1.102</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>93</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.1% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Scooter/3.3.vscooter</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>92</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.0% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>webcollage/1.107</TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>89</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right>(2.0% of all robot sessions)</TD></TR>
</TABLE>

Most active referring search engines during period

<TABLE>
<TR><TD>Google</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>11941 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Yahoo</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>2019 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>MSN</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>1040 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>AltaVista</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>904 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>All the web</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>247 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>AOL</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>60 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Ask Jeeves</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>28 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Lycos</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>17 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Looksmart</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>5 referrals</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Direct Hit</TD><TD>with</TD><TD>3 referrals</TD></TR>
</TABLE>


You can see that the IE dominance continues but what I'm not sure of is the difference between "Mozilla Compatible" and "Mozilla". Also note that Googlebot was the most active robot but there are a number of others out there giving it a close run for its money. It's also worth pointing out the massive lead that Windows XP now has over other versions of Windows and the very modest showing for Linux.

[francis]

I'm not sure what the difference is either. The only thing I can think of is that Opera has a set of preferences that allow it to be identified as other browsers:

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/operaidentprefs.gif

It may be that, although that would give Opera a higher percentage than I would expect. Still, you never know.

The massive XP thing is good - it's the best veriosn of Windows yet. I remembered Tim Scoble (http://scoble.weblogs.com/) who works at Microsoft posting a "what do people want from IE?" question. He was bombarbed with developers all saying "standards, standards, standards", when it seemed as though he/MS were wanting stuff like "cool RSS functionality". His comment to the developers (http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/14.html) was:

"I keep pointing out that if we fixed the CSS and PNG issues, you still wouldn't be able to use those for years. Why? Cause consumers (and companies) really don't care about those issues and won't download a new version just cause you fixed one or two issues."

To which they replied "in that case and using that logic, why bother releasing new versions of Windows?"

Scoble's blog is well worth a read, especially if you're interested in Longhorn. Here's a couple of links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/
http://weblogs.asp.net/grobinson/archive/2...2/12/71929.aspx (http://weblogs.asp.net/grobinson/archive/2004/02/12/71929.aspx)
http://weblogs.asp.net/jnadal/archive/2004/02/15/73357.aspx
http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000516.html
http://www.ideoplex.com/blog/2004/02/04.html#a775
http://www.lhotka.net/WeBlog/default.aspx?date=2004-02-05

and more if you want to read through.