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While waiting for baby to arrive I’ve been tidying things up here a bit in anticipation that I won’t have much time to spend messing about with all my equipment. Subsequently over the weekend I have consolidated my site on to my Poweredge 2800. Everything is now running off the one machine including MySQL.

So with all that done I decided to go over what appears to be my favourite pastime which is analysing my servers log files. So for the first 11 days of November I figured it was time to find out who is using what to browse both my blog and my main site.

Most popular OS is Windows XP with 64.7% of visitors to my blog using it and 51%  to my main site. Where is Vista? Well just 6.5% of visitors to my blog are using Vista and a mere 4.6% on my main site. Which I have to say confirms that people are holding off on Vista and are quite happy on XP.

Various flavours of Linux account for 9.3% of visitors to my main site and 6.9% to my blog. Mac OSX and OS9  account for  7.3% of visitors to my main site and 9.2% to my blog. It is interesting to note that Linux and MacOS both account for more vistors than Vista which I suppose is hardly a surprise.

Of the Linux users, Ubuntu is by far the most popular distribution for both sites but the runner up for my blog is Fedora while the runner up for my main site is SuSE.

So on to browsers: 36.7% of visitors to my main site are using Internet Explorer while 31.3% are using Firefox. However for my blog 56.8% of you are using Firefox compared to 29.5% using Internet Explorer. For both my main site and my blog, IE7 was only just slightly more popular than IE6.

All my stats were collected using AWstats. And in case anyone was wondering, visits from my own network were not included in the results. I would explain the extra visitors using Firefox to view my blog by most visitors being regulars. While in no scientific or reflective of the web on a whole I think it’s pretty interesting nonetheless.