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IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by zeratul »

Here is what happened when I published "HN pickup ratio" web app on HN:

- 10,000 visitors from 100 countries in 3 days (good sales pitch, isn't it?)

- 95% of traffic comes from robots (for first few days, after that it goes down to 60%) - this is based on disproportion between number HTML and CSS serves (should I also count here the 405 error?)

- 57% visitors are from U.S. (of that 30% were from California)

- 58% visitors used chrome browser (IE is just 1%!!!)

- 52% visitors used apple device (where 11% are mobile Apple devices)

- 30% visitors used laptops (based on screen resolution 1440x900 and 1280x800)

Here is the raw data (big png poster):

http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_web_app_statistics_snapshot.png

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

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Post by zeratul »

epaga wrote: post #2

"768x1024 - is your laptop sideways" - you could call it that. It's iPad in portrait mode.

Thanks. There are many numbers in those charts that I don't understand. I was hoping that HN community will help:

Why there are so many 405 (method not allowed) errors? I get this from, e.g., Twitterbot.

Am I right? If someone GETs HTML and doesn't CSS then it's a robot? Why so many robots (web crawlers)?

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#6

Post by rplnt »

icefox wrote: post #3

It would be nice if the viewport size was included in stats like this as that is more important than screen size.

Exactly. "Your viewport width is 1010" and many sites have problem with it (as in show horizontal scrollbar if I don't use fit to width). I would use more space for browser but as I have only 1680px monitor, the rest would be unusable.

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#7

Post by mille562 »

zeratul wrote: post #4
epaga wrote: post #2

"768x1024 - is your laptop sideways" - you could call it that. It's iPad in portrait mode.

Thanks. There are many numbers in those charts that I don't understand. I was hoping that HN community will help: Why there are so many 405 (method not allowed) errors? I get this from, e.g., Twitterbot. Am I right? If someone GETs HTML and doesn't CSS then it's a robot? Why so many robots (web crawlers)?

Could some of those people have cached css files from a previous page view?

Re: IE has 1% of market share ... on HN: "Show HN" aftermath

#8

Post by bri3d »

zeratul wrote: post #4
epaga wrote: post #2

"768x1024 - is your laptop sideways" - you could call it that. It's iPad in portrait mode.

Thanks. There are many numbers in those charts that I don't understand. I was hoping that HN community will help: Why there are so many 405 (method not allowed) errors? I get this from, e.g., Twitterbot. Am I right? If someone GETs HTML and doesn't CSS then it's a robot? Why so many robots (web crawlers)?

How were your cache control headers set up?

Most browsers cache CSS files very aggressively (not even requesting a HEAD for them) once they've been loaded once - hence the common use of query strings or asset paths for CSS to ensure users get new versions on new deploys.

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