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Visitor shifts
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In this month, for the first time, people visiting this site using Apple's new Safari browser now outnumber Netscape users:
| Browser | Hits | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| MS Internet Explorer | 29022 | 58.4% |
| Safari | 7693 | 15.4% |
| Netscape | 6680 | 13.4% |
| Unknown | 4617 | 9.2% |
| Opera | 951 | 1.9% |
| LibWWW | 190 | 0.3% |
| OmniWeb | 147 | 0.2% |
| Galeon | 134 | 0.2% |
| iCab | 132 | 0.2% |
| Konqueror | 36 | 0% |
| W3C CSS Validator | 14 | 0% |
| WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser) | 12 | 0% |
| Lynx | 8 | 0% |
| W3C HTML Validator | 7 | 0% |
| NetShow Player (media player) | 3 | 0% |
Since I write about Mac stuff (on a Mac), it's no surprise that Mac OS X is also now the most common operating system for my visitors to be using, though all Windows users still outnumber Mac users:
| OS | Hits | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Mac OS X | 10576 | 21.3% |
| Windows XP | 8185 | 16.4% |
| Windows 2000 | 8170 | 16.4% |
| Mac OS | 7918 | 15.9% |
| Windows 98 | 6106 | 12.2% |
| Unknown | 3302 | 6.6% |
| Windows Me | 2350 | 4.7% |
| Windows NT | 2088 | 4.2% |
| Windows 95 | 494 | 0.9% |
| Linux | 335 | 0.6% |
| HP Unix | 38 | 0% |
| Sun Solaris | 37 | 0% |
| Unknown Unix system | 30 | 0% |
| FreeBSD | 15 | 0% |
| Windows CE | 1 | 0% |
| Irix | 1 | 0% |
Remember that "hits" are any Web request, including text, images, and so on. Every page on this site yields a whole bunch of hits. So far this month, I have had 3,780 visits (each visitor coming 1.83 times, on average) and 49,646 hits, or 13.13 hits per visit. On average, each visit lasts almost seven minutes, which is a pretty long time—but visit lengths vary widely. Thanks for hanging out, however long you stay.
