Publishing Browser Stats

[Paul McKeown]

Carl,

Do you/would it be possible to publish aggregated daily/weekly/monthly browser/OS statistics for the ecforum?

Regards,
Paul

[Carl Hibbard]

Multiple hits with the same IP, user agent and access day, are considered a single visit

Number of unique visitors 10,406

Different days in logfile 16

03/Jan/2010 588 (5.7%)
04/Jan/2010 692 (6.7%)
05/Jan/2010 702 (6.7%)
06/Jan/2010 705 (6.8%)
07/Jan/2010 708 (6.8%)
08/Jan/2010 670 (6.4%)
09/Jan/2010 593 (5.7%)
10/Jan/2010 634 (6.1%)
11/Jan/2010 669 (6.4%)
12/Jan/2010 701 (6.7%)
13/Jan/2010 675 (6.5%)
14/Jan/2010 658 (6.3%)
15/Jan/2010 650 (6.2%)
16/Jan/2010 610 (5.9%)
17/Jan/2010 613 (5.9%)
18/Jan/2010 538 (5.2%)

Not sure what level of information you want?

[Carl Hibbard]

Analysed requests from Sun-03-Jan-2010 07:37 to Mon-18-Jan-2010 18:10 (15.44 days).

Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 21-Jan-2010 19:10.

Successful requests: 598,835 (151,966)
Average successful requests per day: 38,785 (21,709)
Successful requests for pages: 17,492 (4,338)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,132 (619)
Failed requests: 555 (98)
Redirected requests: 209 (53)
Distinct files requested: 42,150 (18,668)
Distinct hosts served: 4,808 (1,638)
Corrupt logfile lines: 2
Data transferred: 7.16 gigabytes (2.02 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 475.10 megabytes (295.14 megabytes)

[Carl Hibbard]

Do you/would it be possible to publish aggregated daily/weekly/monthly browser/OS statistics for the ecforum?

I don't log the browsers as it's only a reduced log file format that I store although I could do I suppose

Let me know what you need or would like to see

[Carl Hibbard]

pastweek5min.gif

Wish you hadn't asked now

Past Week (5 minute average)

[Paul McKeown]

What's that big outgoing spike on the 18th? Had that some relationship to the attack that you were dealing with with new administrative processes?

Anyway, I suppose it is idle curiousity at the moment, provoked by the recent todo over the Internet Explorer zero day style bug that has been exploited (in IE6) to attack some Googlemail accounts. That and Mozilla releasing Firefox 3.6 today.

I suppose for you, it's a question of how much work it requires to collect and publish the information and how much storage and bandwidth it would consume.

You never know how it might be useful in the future, though, knowing the browsers used by a (hopefully) representative sample of English/English resident chess players.

Regards (and thanks...),
Paul McKeown

[Carl Hibbard]

I suppose for you, it's a question of how much work it requires to collect and publish the information and how much storage and bandwidth it would consume.

It's just a question of storage alone and changing a log configuration file from 'common' to 'combined' from memory

[Carl Hibbard]

You never know how it might be useful in the future, though, knowing the browsers used by a (hopefully) representative sample of English/English resident chess players.

That blip was me following your request - have to wait a while now to build up the statistics

[John Upham]

knowing the browsers used by a (hopefully) representative sample of English/English resident chess players.

Paul,

Which browser(s) does this group use? Consider this an FoI request from Yours Truly!

[Paul McKeown]

Not psychic, John, so that's why I'm suggesting collecting stats ?

Going by some of the off-topic threads, perhaps Netscape 4 has mangled things for some?

[Carl Hibbard]

To answer Paul's question - in the last 11 days...

Number of unique visitors 7,646

Different operating systems listed 5:

Windows 6111 (79.9%)
Unknown 1266 (16.6%)
Macintosh 138 (1.8%)
Linux 130 (1.7%)
SunOS 1 (0.0%)

Different browsers listed 13:

Explorer 7.x 1756 (23.0%)
Explorer 6.x 1363 (17.8%)
Firefox 1249 (16.3%)
Unknown 1169 (15.3%)
Explorer unknown version 1008 (13.2%)
Safari 480 (6.3%)
Opera 318 (4.2%)
Explorer 5.x 173 (2.3%)
Ask Jeeves 78 (1.0%)
Explorer 4.x 28 (0.4%)
Other Mozilla based 22 (0.3%)
Wget 1 (0.0%)
Lynx 1 (0.0%)

[Alex Holowczak]

How is "Unknown" defined? Does that mean an OS/browser that can't be determined by the tracker, or an OS/browser that the user has opted to keep private?

[Carl Hibbard]

How is "Unknown" defined? Does that mean an OS/browser that can't be determined by the tracker, or an OS/browser that the user has opted to keep private?

I am not sure to be honest but perhaps a little of both

[Rob Thompson]

No Chrome? That surprises me...

[Alex Holowczak]

No Chrome? That surprises me...

Maybe that is one of the "Unknowns".