Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage

Lord_Scrumptious writes "An interesting article titled 'The software used to access the BBC homepage' has recently been published on a blog by a BBC employee. It's all about the different browsers and operating systems accessing the BBC's homepage. The analysis is from a week of page requests in September 2005. Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer accounted for 85% of site visits, but Firefox had a very respectable 9.7% share. Even requests from Sony's handheld PSP device were recorded, but interestingly there's no mention of mobile phone devices."

If we all set up some bots...

[nmoog]

...with a shiny firefox user agent string - we could easy get that figure up to 30%!

Slashdotted....

[MacGod]

Hmmmmm.... Slashdotted already.

I have a hunch this guy's web stats are going to show a MASSIVE influx of FireFox users, then a long period of downtime...

Obvious solution

[LaughingCoder]

The obvious solution is to make the BBC homepage the default homepage for Firefox!

Re:All I could get of the article (page 1 and 2)

[Anonymous Coward]

What's unfortunate is that Opera isn't represented here, or in the OP.

Some of us have been using Opera's tabbed, secure browser since long before this upstart Firefox came on the scene...and we still think it's better than Firefox.

Go figure.

Re:errr

[YowzaTheYuzzum]

MSFT's unreleased os has nearly the same market share as linux?

By that logic, Windows 98 has nearly the same market share as Windows 2000.

Windows 2000 16.5%
Windows 98 6.6%

Re:User Agent Switcher

[Vo0k]

Yeah, switch to "googlebot" and have free access to all these pay-for-registration sites.