release usage statistics...
Wolfram Schneider
wosch at freebsd.org
Sun Jun 22 12:42:22 PDT 2003
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
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