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Bloch
February 12th, 2009, 04:11 PM
I am webmaster to a couple of literary and artistic websites.

The stats on the operating system of visitors over all of 2008 were as follows:

Operating Systems (Top 10) - Full list/Versions - Unknown
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Windows 1036984 81.7 %
Macintosh 149672 11.7 %
Unknown 65633 5.1 %
Linux 14327 1.1 %
Unknown Unix system 619 0 %
BSD 609 0 %
Sun Solaris 212 0 %

and an image if I can manage it:
http://www.aidenoreilly.com/stats.jpg

It would be interesting to see if other webmasters post such stats. Particularly to see if there is any difference between countries. This site is in Ireland.

(added: the site is www.stingingfly.org a literary magazine.)

Also, does anyone have a theory on why the "Unknown OS" figure is so high?

-grubby
February 12th, 2009, 04:15 PM
http://grubbn.org/webstats/awstats.grubbn.org.osdetail.html

Windows 64.6 %
Linux 27 %
Macintosh 6.4 %
Unknown 1.5 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 0.3 %
Unknown Unix system 0 %
Symbian Os 0 %

jomiolto
February 12th, 2009, 04:54 PM
Also, does anyone have a theory on why the "Unknown OS" figure is so high?

I believe that's because you can set most browsers not to tell which OS they are running on (perhaps that's even the default on some)? And then there are also web crawlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler).

Metallion
February 12th, 2009, 05:48 PM
Linux with a whoppin' 1 percent. ^_^

binbash
February 12th, 2009, 06:12 PM
There was a big thread about this.

Bloch
February 12th, 2009, 09:58 PM
There was a big thread about this.
I haven't seen and I've been knocking about these forums for a while.

There were threads arguing about how popular Linux is, but that's different.

Yeah the 1.1% for a website which is definitely non-techie looks reasonable. Unless you're being ironic Metallion.

It would be interesting to see any other webmasters stats, particularly any from Germany and France.

yse
February 12th, 2009, 10:03 PM
I haven't seen and I've been knocking about these forums for a while.

There were threads arguing about how popular Linux is, but that's different.

Yeah the 1.1% for a website which is definitely non-techie looks reasonable. Unless you're being ironic Metallion.

It would be interesting to see any other webmasters stats, particularly any from Germany and France.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Your "PARTICULARLY" from Germany and France stats dont really matter, is a science called statistic who said it.