w3c: August 2006 Archives
Which browsers are being used and which OS is popular?
I'm always interested in this kind of information, but finding a good source for it is far from easy.
For my own amusement I thought I'd compare two sites I manage for the year to date.
The sites I choose were this one and search.ie and the results are hardly surprising:
Mneylon.com Browsers:
Mneylon.com Operating Systems
Mneylon.com Connection Speed
Compare that to:
Search.ie Browsers
Search.ie Operating Systems
Search.ie Connection Speed
As could be expected this site attracts "geekier" types, so they're predominantly on broadband and using alternatives to Internet Explorer. A large number of them don't use windows as their OS.
Search.ie, on the other hand, is dominated by Windows users who use Internet Explorer and are on dialup.
What use is this info?
Not a that much use really, but I could use it to tweak search.ie so that it was more 56k friendly, while I could work on the assumption that anybody who made it here won't notice if I've posted a couple of photos, or whatever :)
Mneylon.com Operating Systems
Mneylon.com Connection Speed
Compare that to:
Search.ie Browsers
Search.ie Operating Systems
Search.ie Connection Speed
As could be expected this site attracts "geekier" types, so they're predominantly on broadband and using alternatives to Internet Explorer. A large number of them don't use windows as their OS.
Search.ie, on the other hand, is dominated by Windows users who use Internet Explorer and are on dialup.
What use is this info?
Not a that much use really, but I could use it to tweak search.ie so that it was more 56k friendly, while I could work on the assumption that anybody who made it here won't notice if I've posted a couple of photos, or whatever :)
Back in January I added a webmaster discussion forum to search.ie. Over the last few months the number of visitors and general level of activity has grown, but it was still a bit on the quiet side..
After talking to a few people about ways to boost the site I've spun it off onto its own domain - with proper branding to follow as soon as I can get a logo done.
The kind of topics you can discuss are pretty broad and cover all facets of online design, development, marketing, seo and monetisation.. Drop by and make yourself heard :)
The IIA blog mentions that there is a draft Accessible Procurement Toolkit currently available for comment
