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 Posted by Toby Inkster on 03/30/06 09:51 
DJ Craig wrote: 
 
> When I looked in my Google Analytics stats for my site, I was pleased 
> by this trend in the browsers 
 
Mine are quite bizarre: 
 
	Nov 2005 
	IE =  35.4% 
	Fx =  12.5% 
	Op =   9.45% 
	Sf =   1.48% 
	Ns =   0.318% 
 
	Mar 2006 (so far) 
	IE =  41.5% 
	Fx =  23.5% 
	Op =   6.32% 
	Sf =   2.84% 
	Ns =   0.342% 
 
Where are all the other hits? November the percentages total to only about 
60%. I'm guessing I was hit by several search engine crawlers that month. 
 
I too get the drop in Opera usage, which is very odd. It is possible that 
once Opera went free, there was a spike in people using it, which is what 
we're seeing in November, but that then levelled off after Christmas when 
a bunch of people would have got new computers and perhaps forgot to copy 
Opera from their old one. 
 
I've not done the calculations on my own logs, but that theory would 
result in Opera percentages moving a bit like this: 
 
N(Op) 
  |            _.----.._                     
  |         _./         `-.                    
  |        /               \                   
  |      .'                 `-..______________ 
  |     /                                     
  |    /                                      
  |...-                                       
  |_____Oct___Nov___Dec___Jan___Feb___Mar____ 
 
 
Ending up at a higher percentage than before it went free, but only after 
a peak. Does anyone have their statistics to hand to confirm/deny this? 
 
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS 
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