Thursday, January 04, 2007

Search gems - and a few stats

The strangest google search that ended up on this blog for quite some time:

While we're in statistics overload, of the last 100 visitors to Alan in Belfast:

  • 47% used Internet Explorer (27% on IE 6.*, 20% on IE 7.0)
  • 41% used Firefox (or Mozilla)
  • 11% used Safari
  • 1% Opera

And in terms of operating systems:

  • 84% Windows XP
  • 11% Mac OS X
  • 2% Microsoft Vista
  • 1% Linux
  • 1% Windows 98
  • 1% other
(c) TiinaTeaSpoon via Flickr

Oh, and the monitor resolutions of the snapshot of 100 visitors ranged from 800x600 (10%) up to a massive 1680x1050 (4%).

Before you get worried about your privacy, these stats are sent out every time you request to download a page from a webserver. (Some browsers will allow you to spoof some of the data. Opera is usually underreported as people set it to pretend to be IE to increase compatibility.)

As well a flood of seasonal hits looking for GPS devices, some of the other search terms include:

as well as a flood for

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