Posted by Carolyn Marenger on 03/30/06 18:57

DJ Craig wrote:

> When I looked in my Google Analytics stats for my site, I was pleased
> by this trend in the browsers:
>
> Nov13-26 Mar12-25
> IE 82.62% 75.31%
> Firefox 12.66% 20.25%
> Safari 2.79% 1.98%
> Netscape 0.64% 1.23%
> Opera 0.86% 0.49%
>
> More FF less IE! :-) but I only get a few hundred visitors on my site
> every two weeks and it might be a badly skewed population sample. I
> was wondering if other people are seeing the same trends in browser
> usage?

Take that with a grain of salt. How many of the IE browsers hitting your
site are actually other browsers reporting as IE? There are times when I
need to convince a server that I am running IE in order to access certain
areas - usually work related. I have been tempted to have my browser
report IE all the time, just to save me from those annoying "IE only"
messages. I stick to being honest, knowing if I want the situation to
change, people need to see non-IE browsers in their stats logs.

So again the question, how many browsers are inaccurately reporting
themselves to be IE, or Navigator, or some other one?

Carolyn
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Carolyn Marenger

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