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From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users

by caaqil 5y ago

From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).

antisthenes 5y ago
124 people still rocking Netscape!
- TonyTrapp 5y ago
  Or bots. When I still cared about visitor statistics 10+ years ago, I saw unrealistic amounts of visitors using old versions of Netscape, browsers on Amiga and other niche systems. They were probably all bots in disguise.
- deepstack 5y ago
  and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.
  - dalbin 5y ago
    "whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-agent-for-selenium-web-driver https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...
    - EricE 5y ago
      I love it when people put the instruction for what to enter into a field instead of actually filling out the field. I run into it ALL the time and no matter how you write instructions, at least 1/3 of people won't read them but just skim to what they think they need and then copy/paste. Ugh.
- reaperducer 5y ago
  Last week, one of those was me. I was messing with old VM images and was using .gov web sites for testing connectivity.
gibolt 5y ago
That makes sense considering Edge is a default browser on the most popular (desktop) OS, and this is from a random distribution of users.
NV2k9JtLJpba5BN 5y ago
`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar). Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?
- keewee7 5y ago
  >Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent? Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.
- NavinF 5y ago
  Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.
- mxuribe 5y ago
  I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.
ricardobayes 5y ago
What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.
ixnus 5y ago
Also shows a shocking 90,832 users viewing who are users of 'BestBuy'.

by caaqil 5y ago

antisthenes 5y ago

124 people still rocking Netscape!

TonyTrapp 5y ago
Or bots. When I still cared about visitor statistics 10+ years ago, I saw unrealistic amounts of visitors using old versions of Netscape, browsers on Amiga and other niche systems. They were probably all bots in disguise.
deepstack 5y ago
and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.
- dalbin 5y ago
  "whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-agent-for-selenium-web-driver https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...
  - EricE 5y ago
    I love it when people put the instruction for what to enter into a field instead of actually filling out the field. I run into it ALL the time and no matter how you write instructions, at least 1/3 of people won't read them but just skim to what they think they need and then copy/paste. Ugh.
reaperducer 5y ago
Last week, one of those was me. I was messing with old VM images and was using .gov web sites for testing connectivity.

gibolt 5y ago

That makes sense considering Edge is a default browser on the most popular (desktop) OS, and this is from a random distribution of users.

NV2k9JtLJpba5BN 5y ago

`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar). Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

keewee7 5y ago
>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent? Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.
NavinF 5y ago
Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.
mxuribe 5y ago
I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.

ricardobayes 5y ago

What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.

ixnus 5y ago

Also shows a shocking 90,832 users viewing who are users of 'BestBuy'.