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Re: [LUG] Browser share - again

 

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Julian Hall wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
>> Hardly a representative sample, but I noted that less than a third of
>> DCGLUG visitors were using Internet Explorer last week. Less than the
>> number of Firefox using visitors.
> Is that not simply because visitors to the DCGLUG site fall mainly into
> two categories:
>
> a) Linux users
> b) Prospective Linux users, already partially converted to the
> non-Microsoft world
>
> Windows users (generally) are not interested in Linux and tend to toe
> the Microsoft line.  Therefore Firefox is likely to be the browser of
> choice (between these two anyway) for visitors to the website.

For most websites a fairly large proportion of the visits comes from
people searching for something totally unrelated, so you should take
that into account. I hardly ever visit the DCGLUG site, but I have
done so from work, using Windows.

On a half-related note, I don't like to think of Linux as "an
alternative to Windows", but rather as a great OS on its own.

Martijn.

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