As a person who admittedly has a statistics addiction, I’m walking a fine line presenting this. That, and I have a tradition of doing this every January. It’s a way for me to start new people who don’t know me or don’t know my predilections to see a little of the way I think.

I got the website statistics package Mint a couple of years ago. It’s a widely–used, fairly popular application that goes on your site and lets you track visitors and other data. The most important thing it allows you to do is to compile data in a human–readable format. That’s what I screenshotted and posted for your perusal.

These screenshots are of the User Agent Pies Pepper, showing the default data.

User Agent Pies Browsers

Most of this is completely normal. Except for the incredibly–high incidence of Opera, this is. This is what you get with a platform–independent website.

User Agent Pies Platform

This is the part that bugs me. No, not because so many people use Window. Because almost all of the 1.7% of ‘Other’ is one form of robot, scraping my site for content, email addresses, or images. There are techniques to get them to stop, I just can’t get them to work with my current host.

Also, this is about the normal distribution of website visitors. Mac OS X is more than 10% of all web traffic. And that number has been steadily increasing over the past three or so years.

User Agent Pies Resolution

So you say you want a resolution, well, you know…

1024×768 seems to be the winner here. Pretty much every monitor that is sold today has this as the lowest setting on default. I’m using 1920×1200 on my 23” monitor, but my hits aren’t counted.

User Agent Pies Flash

I will admit, the latest couple of versions of Adobe’s Flash have been both technical marvels and horrible mishaps. I can no longer use Flash in Safari because of how much of the processor gets used. I can’t get anything other than choppy video in my default browser. That makes it surprising to see so many people who visit this site using the newer versions.

Also note that not every user has Flash installed. I have no idea why that is.

Statistics conclusions

What statistical conclusions can I get to using these charts? I dunno. I never was good at statistics in college. Or…now…

Not really the reason for this post. The little green pie charts look pretty, that’s about it for me. Maybe if I was selling wide–screen Flash content for Windows users who prefer Internet Explorer this’d be helpful.

Probably not. But it’s fun showing these things off anyways.

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lastmod: '2009-01-22T01:07:48.000Z'
excerpt: If I was selling wide–screen Flash content for Windows users who like Internet Explorer this’d be helpful. But probably not. It’s still fun showing these things off anyways.
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