Re: tlug: Interesting statistic

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, John De Hoog wrote:

> This statistic caught my eye today.
> 
> "We [=Web Site Journal] took more than 2,000,000 Web pageviews 
> >from approximately 5,000 Web sites using Web Site Garage's 
> Hitometer and found the following statistics:
> 
> Windows 95              63.2%           
> Windows 98              16.3%           
> Windows NT              8.7%            
> Macintosh                 4.6%            
> Other                        3.2%            
> Other Windows          2.6%            
> Solaris/SunOS           0.8%            
> Linux                        0.6%
> 
> [end quote]
> 
> (Assuming the results are meaningful, I wonder if this means Linux users
> are really that small a proportion of the online community, or whether
> they are hiding their Linux identities, or whether they just don't Web
> browse very much. I also expected Mac users to be more plentiful, and am
> surprised by the relatively high Win98 figure.)

It's just that it's hard to find Windows stuff on the net, so you have to
generate more hits from your windows browser.  I can *almost never* find
any kind of meaningful driver support or help with anything
windows-related on the net - believe me, I've looked!  I bet there's a lot
of other 'lookers' out there.  With Linux, I can find what i need in one
or two clicks, so, less hits from my Linux netscape.

Heck, most of those Win95 hits are probably people trying futilely to
search at www.microsoft.com/support or something.. :)

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