Talk:Usage share of operating systems/Archive 1
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I put in a list of reasons why the use of browser statistics is unreliable in estimating the proportions of PCs using different operating systems and followed with an example comparing results from surveys, and hits from a particular web site, w3schools.com. I thought the single reason, unreliable reporting, was incomplete. Having viewed server logs, I know it is often impossible to get it right. It would be better to have survey data. Pogson 00:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
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If we are going to use web stats from unknown pages out there, I wonder whether it would be feasible/desirable to include the stats from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is widely used by everyone so would be a neutral, high-volume site to collect statistics. That might be a better sample than the unknown sites in the three collections in the article. Pogson 01:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
- I think methodology is a really big problem. When I look at the visitors of two sites that I help hosting (both small, but not too small, 1500 unique visits monthly) I see big differences that are a result of the different public, but also a real problem with more and more spambots and harvester bots that are undistinguishable from windows/msie users. On the one site (which has more forms and not yet ip blocking) bots are at least 40%, perhaps even more.
- If I visit for example the XiTi Monitor and look for its methodology, it simply states:
Methodology:
This survey of operating systems was conducted on French-speaking websites.