Nerds' Corner
What is it ?
A bit of information for those who are interested in the finer things of life, such as details of the browsers and operating systems that folks are using to look at this website, with an exquisite topping of information regarding the nature of the myriad creatures that crawl over the site, probing its inner workings with their long, slimy fingers.
Some points to note:-
Firstly, Percentages
- % log entries. These figures refers to robot/crawler accesses as a percentage of ALL entries in the Access Log file for 'TheLog' website.
- PERCENT and % of total. These are percentages of the total contribution of the items listed. In all cases, Browsers, OS and Bots, the lists are incomplete and the TRUE totals will therefore be somewhat greater. However, although there are several missing/omitted items, their contribution to the total is very small.
Browsers
- MSIE ≤ 8 browsers are not compliant with modern standards, but their use is decreasing dramatically over time.
- Safari includes use by mobile devices, especially the various Apple iGizmos.
- Nokia some devices use Safari, but not all.
Operating Systems - Windows
- Other Windows variants that have appeared are:- 2000, ME, 98, 95 and, amazingly, 3.1
Operating Systems - Others
- Linux. Ubuntu is the most popular variant, but the overall usage is depressing low.
- Macintosh. For 2011, the level is higher for 'TheLog' website than is generally the case, thus proving a discerning and refined readership :)
Robots, Crawlers, etc.
- Google. Crawls the site at about the same frequency as the other major three, but provides the vast majority of search hits.
- 'Minor Players'. A few more than are shown have crawled the site, but I think I have got most of them.
Finally
- I think (hope) that the bug that produced ragged columns in some versions of Macintosh Safari has been fixed.
2012 (upto Jan 27th)
2012-01-27 15:25 loginfo Page 1
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BROWSER PERCENT BOTS PERCENT
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MSIE <9 31.24 Google 31.21
MSIE9 12.67 Yandex 18.23
Firefox 25.73 Bing 10.79
Opera 0.33 Majestic12 9.21
Safari 9.44 MSN 8.04
Chrome 20.58 Ezooms 7.75
-------------------- NerdByNature 2.98
% of total 99.98 Goo.jp 2.89
-------------------- Baidu 2.82
BlackBerry 0.00 Ahrefs 2.08
Konqueror 0.00 Sistrix 1.48
Samsung 0.00 Yahoo 0.76
SonyEricsson 0.00 Wise-guys.nl 0.48
Nokia 0.02 Aghaven 0.48
-------------------- Alexa 0.38
% of total 0.02 Exabot 0.33
-------------------- Naver 0.10
Turnitin 0.00
SpeedySpider 0.00
-------------------- SiteSell 0.00
OS (Windows) PERCENT Sitebot 0.00
-------------------- Search17 0.00
Vista 13.25 PuritySearch 0.00
XP 33.52 Plukkie 0.00
Windows 7 30.20 Mojeek 0.00
Windows 8 0.00 MetaDataLabs 0.00
Other Windows 2.17 Linguee 0.00
-------------------- Geohasher 0.00
% of total 79.15 FlightDeckReps 0.00
-------------------- Dotnetdotcom 0.00
CityReview 0.00
Blekko 0.00
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OS (Others) PERCENT % log entries 22.56
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Linux 6.26
Macintosh 10.23
RISC 0.00
BlackBerry 0.00
Android 2.47
Symbian 0.02
Opera Mini 0.02
J2ME 0.02
iPhone/Pad/Pod 1.84
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%of total 20.85
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2011
2011 loginfo Page 1
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BROWSER PERCENT BOTS PERCENT
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MSIE <9 37.06 Yandex 24.54
MSIE9 8.96 Google 19.87
Firefox 30.59 Yahoo 15.44
Opera 0.76 Bing 14.82
Safari 13.49 Ezooms 5.44
Chrome 8.87 Majestic12 4.14
-------------------- Baidu 2.84
% of total 99.73 NerdByNature 2.05
-------------------- Wise-guys.nl 1.96
BlackBerry 0.02 MSN 1.23
Konqueror 0.03 Dotnetdotcom 1.13
Samsung 0.09 Goo.jp 1.04
SonyEricsson 0.03 Sitebot 0.86
Nokia 0.09 PuritySearch 0.78
-------------------- Ahrefs 0.75
% of total 0.27 Exabot 0.65
-------------------- Turnitin 0.41
Plukkie 0.39
Blekko 0.33
-------------------- SiteSell 0.28
OS (Windows) PERCENT Alexa 0.28
-------------------- Sistrix 0.18
Vista 16.67 Linguee 0.15
XP 38.23 CityReview 0.15
Windows 7 24.48 Mojeek 0.07
Windows 8 0.00 Geohasher 0.06
Other Windows 0.26 Aghaven 0.06
-------------------- SpeedySpider 0.04
% of total 79.65 FlightDeckReps 0.04
-------------------- Search17 0.03
Naver 0.02
MetaDataLabs 0.01
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OS (Others) PERCENT % log entries 23.54
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Linux 1.69
Macintosh 15.87
RISC 0.02
BlackBerry 0.02
Android 0.35
Symbian 0.19
Opera Mini 0.06
J2ME 0.04
iPhone/Pad/Pod 2.10
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%of total 20.35
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2010
2010 loginfo Page 1
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BROWSER PERCENT OS (Others) PERCENT
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MSIE <9 52.00 Linux 1.32
MSIE9 0.01 Macintosh 12.52
Firefox 29.16 RISC 0.00
Opera 0.80 BlackBerry 0.19
Safari 11.40 Android 0.13
Chrome 6.18 Symbian 0.06
-------------------- Opera Mini 0.02
% of total 99.55 J2ME 0.02
-------------------- iPhone/Pad/Pod 1.27
BlackBerry 0.19 --------------------
Konqueror 0.09 %of total 15.53
Samsung 0.02 --------------------
SonyEricsson 0.13 --------------------
Nokia 0.01 BOTS PERCENT
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% of total 0.45 Google 33.44
-------------------- Yahoo 23.86
Yandex 14.07
Bing 6.33
-------------------- MSN 9.37
OS (Windows) PERCENT Majestic 12 0.20
-------------------- Baidu 0.11
Vista 18.03 Goo.jp 0.02
XP 52.10 Alexa 0.18
Windows 7 13.34 Turnitin 0.00
Windows 8 0.00 Plukkie 0.00
Other Windows 1.00 Linguee 0.00
-------------------- Sitebot 0.00
% of total 84.47 Dotnetdotcom 3.15
-------------------- Wise-guys.nl 5.43
Purity Search 2.10
Soso 0.00
Blekko 0.04
Search 17 0.02
Ask 1.69
Sogou 0.00
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% log entries 13.60
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2009
2009 loginfo Page 1
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BROWSER PERCENT OS (Others) PERCENT
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MSIE <9 60.33 Linux 1.75
MSIE9 0.00 Macintosh 8.12
Firefox 28.06 RISC 0.00
Opera 2.30 BlackBerry 0.01
Safari 5.53 Android 0.00
Chrome 3.66 Symbian 0.00
-------------------- Opera Mini 0.00
% of total 99.88 J2ME 0.00
-------------------- iPhone/Pad/Pod 0.08
BlackBerry 0.01 --------------------
Konqueror 0.11 %of total 9.96
Samsung 0.00 --------------------
SonyEricsson 0.00 --------------------
Nokia 0.00 BOTS PERCENT
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% of total 0.12 Google 74.52
-------------------- Yahoo 23.04
Yandex 0.00
Bing 0.00
-------------------- MSN 1.55
OS (Windows) PERCENT Majestic 12 0.25
-------------------- Baidu 0.00
Vista 23.28 Goo.jp 0.00
XP 63.98 Alexa 0.14
Windows 7 1.67 Turnitin 0.00
Windows 8 0.00 Plukkie 0.00
Other Windows 1.10 Linguee 0.00
-------------------- Sitebot 0.00
% of total 90.04 Dotnetdotcom 0.00
-------------------- Wise-guys.nl 0.00
Purity Search 0.00
Soso 0.00
Blekko 0.00
Search 17 0.00
Ask 0.49
Sogou 0.00
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% log entries 11.78
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Created: 17-Mar-2011
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