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As Wikipedia has an Alexa rank of 6, and is the most popular web site I know of that gives an occasional survey of its server logs, I tend to look at it for inf
by Ologn 14y ago
As Wikipedia has an Alexa rank of 6, and is the most popular web site I know of that gives an occasional survey of its server logs, I tend to look at it for information on web clients. Like their October 2012 report
( http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera... )
For Linux client systems that use Wikipedia, Linux kernels with Android dominate. There's about 7 Android clients for every 1 Ubuntu client. There's about 45 Ubuntu clients for every Fedora and SuSE client. There's 2 Fedora users for every Debian user. And so on - less used Linux clients are listed on the report as well.
Netcraft used to have a decent survey of which web servers were running Linux, but I don't see any recent reports from them on that. With the rise of EC2 and PAAS/IAAS I would guess the Amazon Linux AMI would be one of the new VPSs/instances/"servers" that is around more nowadays.
- arocks 14y agoAgree. Probably the only valuable statistic here would be of user preferences. Again, it reflects the biases that reddit users might have. But it is likely that they are more techsavy than the average population and likely to be an opinion leader among their peers.
- daniel-levin 14y agoDo Linux based spiders and crawlers count? If so, has that skewed the results in a meaningful way?
- padraigm 14y agoWhether they count or not, I would expect to see "regular" users to be orders of magnitude more common than web crawlers.
- Flimm 14y agoBut web crawlers generate orders of magnitude more traffic than regular users.
- dredmorbius 14y agoTrue, but if you're tracking users, you'll normalize for that (tracking cookies, bot exclusion, IP, etc.). It's somewhat nontrivial, but most web analytics packages will give you a decent first cut.
- pyvek 14y agoUnless the web crawlers are intentionally spoofing their user agent to identify as browsers, I don't think that they are counted.
- streptomycin 14y agoA lot of Linux distros don't expose the distro name to the browser these days, for security reasons. Ubuntu still does, though. That's why "Linux Other" is so high now (double Ubuntu) when it wasn't a couple years ago http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-03/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-03/Squ... .