Version 1 browsers
Posted on August 19, 2002 @ 21:59 in General
The Counter.com browser stats:
Mon Jul 1 00:05:01 2002 - Wed Jul 31 23:55:03 2002 31.0 Days
1. MSIE 5.x 186444766 (50%) 2. MSIE 6.x 145236435 (39%) 3. Netscape 4.x 11747645 (3%) 4. MSIE 4.x 9781300 (2%) 5. Netscape comp. 3736452 (1%) 6. Opera x.x 3475303 (0%) 7. Netscape 6.x 2960621 (0%) 8. Netscape 5.x 1753018 (0%) 9. Unknown 1393483 (0%) 10. Netscape 3.x 191522 (0%) 11. MSIE 2.x 186229 (0%) 12. MSIE 3.x 175579 (0%) 13. Netscape 2.x 21868 (0%) 14. Netscape 1.x 520 (0%) 15. MSIE 1.x 489 (0%)
Wow, pretty amazing. Some people, granted a small minority, is still using Version 1 browsers. Significantly more people still use V.2 browsers.
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I'm very sceptical of thecounter.com's figures. They don't publish anything about their methodology, and well-knowns search engine spiders don't appear. Are they excluding them, and if so, are they doing a good job of it? A lot of these so-called version 1.0 browsers are meant to be non-Y2K compliant, and many of them aren't compatible with HTTP 1.1 (Netscape before 2.02, for example). Frankly, I think their numbers are bogus.
Posted by CodeBitch on September 01, 2002 @ 11:19
Good point. Like anything on the web, take it with a grain of salt. For what it's worth, I figure they're still basing themselves on something, even if we don't quite know how. Another thing that struck me was that 'other' browsers such as Omniweb or Konquerer are not mentioned by name, possibly all gathered in the Unknown category?
Posted by Frank on September 01, 2002 @ 16:07
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