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The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
by bigfatkitten 2mo ago
The separation of “OS X” and “macOS” gives me pause about the reliability of the other figures, particularly Linux and Chrome OS.
- wmf 2mo agoThe last release of OS X was 11 years ago but this site shows it having over twice as many users as macOS. It's totally implausible.
- Caligatio 2mo agoI haven't done any investigation but some scraper and/or bot configuration uses OS X as its user agent. I run an unpublished service used by 1s of people and was hit by an influx of supposed OS X user agents that didn't correspond to my actual user base.
- fragmede 2mo agoDid you run any advanced TCP fingerprinting techniques to dig a bit deeper?
- Caligatio 2mo agoWell, guess it's worth spending a little time looking at it. It appears that it's the Cloudflare Security Center scanning service? This would also explain how my unpublished service was located as I use Cloudflare for my DNS.
- kelnos 2mo agoRegardless, they're the same OS, so any serious (read: competent) person compiling stats like this would combine them into the same bucket.
- frollogaston 2mo agoI saw reddit and turned around already