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I’ve been obsessively poring over my log files again. I always find it interesting to see what combinations of operating systems and web browsers visitors to my sites are using. I’ve recently resurrected Sawmill to analyse reports from my reverse proxy which gives me a nice overview of all visitors to all my hosted sites.

So from the 17th August to today here are some interesting (I think) stats:

30.3% of visitors are running Windows XP
12.2% are using Windows Vista
10.2% are using a Linux Distribution
6.7% are using MacOS

The web browser stats are probably more interesting:

40.2% are using a version of Firefox
25.1% are using a version of Internet Explorer
8.2% are using Safari (Google Chrome is included as Safari)
2.2% are using Opera

I have my reverse proxy configured to reject libwww-perl as it is only ever used for something dodgy but from the logs it shows that there were 1,399 rejected libwww-perl useragents making up 0.8% of all browsers.

Next up are spiders. Again I have some of these blocked either by useragent or by IP. For example I have all of Amazons EC2 netblocks dropped on my firewall because again nothing good ever comes from there. However the ones I have not blocked by IP will still appear in my logs albeit having been served a 403. As expected the busiest crawler is Googlebot:

42.8% of spider traffic is from Googlebot
27.4% is from MSNbot
26.3% is Yahoo!’s Slurp

While on the subject of search engines:

98.9% of search engine traffic to my sites came from Google.
1.0% from Yahoo!
1 single solitary visitor came from AOL search!

I already mentioned dishing out 403s based on useragents, well 1.9% of all server responses were 403 with a total of 641 unique IP addresses.

The last time I posted about visitor stats was back in November 2007. Back then as expected the vast majority of visitors were using Windows XP and the most popular browser was Firefox for visitors to my wiki and Internet Explorer on my blog. Windows Vista has also been released by then and was only making up between 5 and 7% of all visits. This time around it is interesting to see that Windows 7 despite being a release candidate and not officially launched yet accounted for almost 3% of visitors.

It’s going to be interesting to watch the uptake of Windows 7.