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You can't take a median of percentages!

It's mathematically incoherent to take a median of percentage values, as the chart at the top of the article does (or did -- I just removed that row). There is absolutely no reason that the medians of a set of percentage data would sum to 100%, because unlike the mean, the median does not have the distributive property. Consider:

Data points: 

Foo   Bar   Baz | SUM
15%   25%   60% | 100%
40%   10%   50% | 100%
 5%    5%   90% | 100%

Median: 

15%   10%   60% | 85%

Oops! We got values that summed up to 85%, that can't be right! So I've removed the median row from the chart at the top. --FOo (talk) 06:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We aren't concerned if they add up to 100%. The numbers to start with don't add up to 100% anyways. Look at the numbers for w3counter for example.   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 06:45, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the median row in the table is valid. The thing that wouldn't be valid would be to display the median row as a pie chart, as, e.g., 49% could well look like much more (or less than) than half. The way to display the set of medians would be as a bar graph as we did for a while, but we don't do that at the moment anyway. --Nigelj (talk) 09:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't strongly agree with the pie chart but agree anyways. Next month I'll make it a bar, if someone doesn't do it sooner. By the way the current median adds up to 100.6% , so 49% should look like 49%. :)   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 15:30, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Can I add back the original char? And what median do you want it based on? Both tables are within less than 0.36% difference. Jdm64 (talk) 22:03, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please use the world-wide table. Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 01:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes - please bring back the original chart. I beleive using median from summary table is better - please use it. Wikiolap (talk) 02:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, original chart back, using the world-median. But, like I said before the difference between the two tables is less than 0.36%. So, I think that shows that there's really no need for the duplicated world table. Jdm64 (talk) 02:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's still the case that a median of percentages is of extremely limited significance, and is likely to present a distorted view of the data.

The reason the rows do not sum to 100% is that some data have been excluded in this particular summary presentation (namely, the "other" browsers); obviously, the actual percentages across the full set of data would sum to 100%. (If not, they aren't percentages at all.) That's not a distortion of the data; it's just not presenting the least interesting data.

However, taking the median of percentages from different surveys does distort the data, as in the example I gave above. There is no reason to expect it not to do so. A median is typically used to express the central value of a statistical population (e.g. median age; median income), not to summarize across multiple summary values.

I'll go and seek additional mathematical advice on this subject; watch this space. :) --FOo (talk) 14:58, 5 December 2010 (UTC) It is a mean not a median. 91.109.159.10 (talk) 19:34, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pie Chart vs Bar

Do you guys like the bar chart because of the 100% issue, and or other reasons? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 19:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pie charts in general are problematic. Here are couple of links to talk about it:
Wikiolap (talk) 21:16, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I agree they are problematic, but I don't agree the bar chart is necessarily better. The thing that a pie chart conveys and that a bar chart doesn't, is that all of the browsers are competing for a share of the web usage pie. Thanks for the links. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:42, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The thing we would have to show is that the browsers compete for a share of 100% of the pie. Making a collection of medians add up to 100% is not trivial. It is not acceptable for, e.g., a 50% share to occupy other than 180 deg. Tilting the chart in 3D adds further issues as thin slices near 3 and 9 o'clock then look much thinner than the same ones would near 12 or 6; with true 3D perspective, sectors near 6 o'clock can look even bigger still. These problems disappear (i.e. do not need solving) with a simple bar chart. --Nigelj (talk) 13:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Currently the means add up to 100.6% so currently it is trivial. Yes there are pie chart issues, but still doesn't resolve the issue that they convey an important message: That all browsers are competing for a share of the pie and each is trying to grab the largest slice. If we took a user survey which they prefer the bar or the pie, which do you think would be preferred? Perhaps we could have both for a while. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I really find it hard to read and realizing which browser has how much market share in the comparison of other browsers in the pie chard. 3D makes it almost harder. Please: use the bar charts (and make line for at least every 20% market). mabdul 16:50, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really understand why a bar chart is used over a pie chart, it seems an illogical way to present the data and a pie chart seems much more approriate. Even if the numbers don't quite add up a proportional factor can be applied to the shares to correct the error. 193.117.31.4 (talk) 16:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Did you read wikiolap's two links above? I made them more obvious. I agree, but given the preference for bar charts perhaps someday we could have both. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IE bursting out of the graph

Why does the new bar graph axis end short at 40%? I assume it's not the classic marketing tactic of making the IE bar look like it 'bursting out of the graph', rather than showing it to be 'just less than 50%', which is what it is. --Nigelj (talk) 12:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Its a quirk of the default settings of statistical package used: "R". Probably can be fixed nowing the correct parameter to change. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

statcounter mobile numbers suspect

Why does RIM start so low and now overtaking iPhone? iPhone dropping in marketshare? This seems to be contrary to what everyone else is publishing. Seems like those two columns should be reversed. Wondering if statCounter has got something messed up. Any thoughts? Thx, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 06:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I sent statCounter an email. Lets see if they respond. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 13:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, StatCounter Global Stats <globalstats@statcounter> wrote:
Hi Daniel,

Unfortunately, we would not be in a position to provide explanations for all the trends we see on StatCounter Global Stats - generally, we report the trends and leave the commentary and speculation to journalists, bloggers and other interested parties who make use of our stats.

In this case some other possible points that may be of interest to you include:

  • Users may be moving towards using apps on the iPhone rather than the web browsing functionality
  • BB appear to be improving their handsets per the latest handset reviews - making them more user-friendly for web browsing etc e.g. Blackberry Torch - "with the BlackBerry Storm touch/click screen, this touch screen is simply light years ahead and also with greatly improved web browsing functionality" (source:http://www.blackberry-phone.co.uk/)

In my own personal experience, Blackberries have been used mainly in the past for the purposes of email and not for web browsing due to the limitations of the browsing functionality. If this is changing, it would explain the stats we are seeing as you suggest.

You should also note that it's possible to use OTHER browsers on the iPhone e.g. Opera (http://gigaom.com/2010/05/28/opera-says-2-6m-iphones-owners-use-opera-mini-do-you/) so it's not necessarily the case that usage of the iPhone is dropping although usage of the iPhone browser has been falling.

Jenni

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Cardenas <daniel@> wrote:
Hi Jenni,

Thanks for the reply. Here is an example of where your numbers don't make sense. In 2008 you report that iPhone had 22% browsing market share and RIM had 4.7% share. iPhone was relatively new at that time and RIM was established at that time. It makes sense that RIM would have 22% share and iPhone 4.7%. Here is a sales history of iPhone which should ruffly correlate to browser share. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg
Here is one that includes blackberry sales:
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=445&mid=5083828&pt=msg

The numbers that statCounter publish can only make sense if one assumes that blackberry's have not been used much to browse the web and now they are starting to be used to browse the web. I'll assume that is the case because that is what your numbers are telling me.

Thanks, Daniel


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:39 AM, StatCounter Global Stats <globalstats@statcounter> wrote:
Hi Daniel,

I'm not sure what source you are using for comparison purposes with our figures but we are confident in our stats - there is no error. It's important to ensure that you are comparing like-with-like - we report on mobile internet usage for example, not on sales of handsets.

This recent press release may be of interest to you: http://gs.statcounter.com/press/blackberry-overtakes-apple-in-mobile-wars

Thanks for your feedback.

Jenni
StatCounter Global Stats
Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 20:34, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

and that means (for us)? what are the reasons? mabdul 20:51, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are standing by their data and give good reasons for it, even though the numbers may seem very odd. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 01:23, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've reviewed some other websites data and it doesn't come close to what statCounter says. (No I can not supply references.) Matches closer to what wikimedia says, so I'm confident statcounter is doing something unexpected with the logs. Not much we can do about it. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 05:36, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In my view, this is not at all unexpected. BlackBerry always had a huge installed base of handhelds. However, they were mostly used for corporate e-mail. From my personal experience, it was next to impossible to browse the normal web with the BlackBerry handhelds; the browser was very slow (partly caused by the handheld not offering WiFi, partly because of the slowness of the processor). Only starting in the end of 2008, when the BlackBerry 8900 and 9000 were released, was the browsing experience acceptable. It only got good once BlackBerry OS 5.0 was released in autumn 2009. Given that corporation typically replace handhelds after around 2 years, this would be entirely consistent with the market shares observed. --SmilingBoy (talk) 09:59, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a suggestion why a large family of websites such as wikimedia has mobile safari 5 times larger than blackberry, while statcounter says blackberry is higher? Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 13:47, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Getclicky.com also says that mobile safari is 5x blackberry. http://www.getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/#/marketshare/global/web-browsers/mobile/   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Is in this table Opera Browser Opera Mini and Opera Mobil combined or is it separated? If not separated: why not splitting them up, if separated: why not making another column? mabdul 13:57, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't know about opera mini. Seems netapp created a column for mini recently. I combined it into one column for the summary table. Don't know if mini is counted in the mobile number, since that is where mini is used, i think. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 21:18, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I mailed statcounter because of the opera mobile proble. here is the response... 

Hi Dennis, 

We include both Mobile and Mini under Opera in our Mobile Browser Stats. 

We also include Opera usage on ANY mobile device as defined here:
http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#mobile-definition

Many thanks for your interest in StatCounter Global Stats. 

StatCounter Global Stats

-----Original Message-----
From: **@**.**
Sent: Friday, 7 January, 2011 02:58
To: globalstats@statcounter.com
Subject: Global Stats Feedback From Dennis


               Name: Dennis
               Company: n/a
               Email: **@**.**
                       
               Hello,
can you explain me what count as a Opera mobile browser? Does this include Opera
Mobile, Opera Mini and ofter devices as the Wii or the Nitendo DS?
Or is only Opera Mobile counted?

Regards
Dennis

mabdul 22:40, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

35% Opera usage in Ukraine?

I've lived in Ukraine for 5 years and I can only think of one time I have ever seen opera used there. This made me a little suspicious of the supposed 35% usage there, so I checked the reference number and all that is referenced is "Top 5 browsers in Ukraine". It is not click-able, unlike the "Top 5 browsers in Germany" link above it, and doesn't seem to be linked to anything at all as far as I can tell. Someone needs to check up on this because I really don't think this is correct (my personal experience could certainly be wrong, but no link?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.169.150.165 (talk) 03:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, there is something wrong with that referenced. If you look at the source you can see better what it is suppose to point at. I hacked it it is really obvious now. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-UA-monthly-200910-201010-bar . Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The wrong table is repeated at the head of the article

Now that we have three summary tables in this article, I believe that the wrong one currently has prominence at the top of the page. With only two lines of data in it, the November table is currently inaccurate and highly misleading. The October table has eight lines of data (even though one of them is still regional) and so is much more suitable for prominence and graphing. Promoting the new month's data long before it is complete is not the best way to use the current layout IMHO. --Nigelj (talk) 22:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Over and Under estimation

This section has unencyclopedic content. I'm planning on deleting most of the text that doesn't have a reference. Feel free to add it back in if you have a reference. Some of the text is just wrong. For example the comparison of text versus graphical browsers. The web hit counting software that I've seen counts page views and not image views. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 21:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support to keep only these bullet points in this section which have references. I also want to point out, that it is not our role to decide what is "wrong" and what is "right", but only what has verifiable and reliable references. Wikiolap (talk) 19:53, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Change date format from January 2010 to 2010-01 ?

What do you think about changing the date format from something like January 2010 to 2010-01? The advantages are:

  1. Sortable
  2. More compact
  3. Perhaps easier to read for non native english reader.

Disadvantages are:

  1. Not the typical way we write dates.

Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 16:19, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I prefer to keep the month names - they are more readable than numbers. And for non native English readers (I am, BTW, is non native English reader too), if they don't know month names - they probably won't know most of other words. Wikiolap (talk) 19:56, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong stats used!!

Check out the stats on

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

They are not the same as in this article from November 2010!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.59.94.16 (talk) 09:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

W3Counter or w3Schools?--Sandro kensan (talk) 20:27, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

indeed, I also totally agree that the statistics used in this article currently is totally inapropriate! Searching today for this kind of information (from studying purpose) I could agree only to the information provided on w3schools web page... I hope it'll be changed in this article soon! Or at least that source with it's data gonna be provided... otherwise it gonna look like browser lobbies reached even wikipedia :/ 78.104.123.6 (talk) 20:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you expand on your opinion? Why only w3schools web page? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Europe FF overtaking IE in lead section pool

Does the mention of FF overtaking IE in Europe in December 2010 deserves to be in article lead section.

  • Oppose - it is newsworthy right now, but there are many dynamics in browser wars at different times in different places - it doesn't fit into lead, but rather to Browser Wars article. Wikiolap (talk) 18:46, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - IE has been the worldwide dominant browser since about 1999. It's usage share graph has been on a downward trend for some time, but this is the first time it has lost its leading position since then (11 - 12 years is a long time in the history of the WWW). And in Europe too - that's an important world region. Who'd have guessed just a short time ago? This is one of the most notable milestones in web browser history. --Nigelj (talk) 19:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - When it is not newsworthy, it will be replaced with something similar. For example: Firefox is the most popular browser in Europe. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 20:41, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For the 1999 info that was reverted from the lead, that could go in a history section. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 00:37, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This looks like double standard - if FF overtakes IE (if only in Europe), then it is interesting. But if IE overtakes NS - then it is not interesting. I am just trying to keep article balanced and unbiased - either both deserve to be in the lead, or none. Wikiolap (talk) 01:03, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is a reason history isn't in the lead in most articles. Its mostly about what is relevant now. thx, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 04:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion is requested on what should or shouldn't be in the lead

wp:lead says that the lead should be a summary of the article, mention the most interesting points and be about 3 paragraphs long. Here are some things that could (doesn't mean should) be in the lead:

  1. Fun facts about each browser. What makes the browser interesting in terms of usage share.
  2. Regional variations in usage share. Perhaps the same as the above.
  3. Latest trends in usage share.
  4. History of one or more of the above.

I didn't include in the above items: definition, summary table, and chart. I'm thinking people are good with those. What do you think the lead should look like? My opinion is we should add some text about the x year trend of I.E. dropping in usage share and recent chrome, safari, and mobile gaining usage share. Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I won't add funfacts.
  1. in the first summary table I would add the recent changes.
  2. I would (somewhere in the page) add a summarized (svg) graph of all browsers. (like adding mosaic for the beginning...)
just my 2 c mabdul 18:41, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would keep regional variations in the dedicated section. In fact we already have this section :)
  • I would not keep info about specific recent changes to browser market share landscape in the lead either - if they are worthy mentioning - they can be in their dedicated section. It is OK to have some summary in the lead, like saying that IE used to be a king, but not anymore, rise of mobile browsing.
Wikiolap (talk) 19:29, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Commentary about the mobile column

Wikimedia lists mobile for december at 6.4 percent.[1] 3.4% of this is safari. No doubt much of this is due to the ipad and itouch. I wouldn't call an ipad with wi-fi access mobile, but I believe wikimedia does. Notebooks are starting to come with 4g access, they seem very mobile, but we don't include them in the mobile column. For some mobile means using a limited browser, but even cell phone handset browsers seem full featured with flash. The category seems murky and no doubt a better way to categorize will present itself as mobile continues to grow.[2] Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:26, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

template

Why is the web browsers template removed? It is really a part of the article...mabdul 22:51, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article is about usage share of browsers, not browsers. If you think it belongs here that add it back in. Perhaps it can be minimized by default.   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This template includes many browser (not all which have an article). But there are also related articles in. and this contains the usage share of web browsers. (already linked in) mabdul 23:30, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are some problems about the percent in the tables

For example, Stat Counter: 46.94% + 30.76% + 14.85% + 4.79% + 2.07% = 99.41% (0.59% is other), but the mobile browsers are 4.10%.

This meant that these data (100%) are refer to desktop browsers only, are NOT contained the mobile browsers. So, these tables should add the NOTES. - 111.251.195.122 (talk) 01:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think others prefer to adjust the percentages, I was a bit reluctant to do that because for the world wide summary table it cancels out low numbers their. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 04:26, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Add w3schools

I was thinking of adding w3schools with disclaimers. Yes, it is not representative of global usage share but neither is statowl and is a popular site in general and for browser stats.   http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp   What do you think?   Thanks, Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 19:06, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think we've had this discussion before (check the archives). The reason for not adding w3schools boils down to: The stats are only for their site, unlike the other sources which use many diverse sites. This is further compounded by the specific nature of the site (web development) which is a very niche market. Now, if the other editors agree to adding w3schools, I might be willing to bend, but the stats really are an order of magnitude divergent from the median. Jdm64 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:55, 31 January 2011 (UTC).[reply]
For the reasons Jdm64 listed above, and per previous discussions - I am against adding w3schools to this article. Wikiolap (talk) 03:37, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The stats do not indicate an order of magnitude different. So you feel a little bit whacked like statowl is o.k. but more whacked is bad? Kind of playing favorites don't you think? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 05:44, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, what would be your definition of order of magnitude different? Because I'd say that the inverted stats between I.E. and Firefox is abnormally different, especially since the median difference between the two is about 15%. But if you don't like that reason, look at it given the fact that all the other sources gather data from multiple domains, except w3schools. Jdm64 (talk) 09:43, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
and except wikimedia. But I have to say that I'm also against adding it. The discussion was quite clear: web developers/technic-affines are choosing software that their needs serve; others often don't know that they have a choice. For that reason the EU created browserchoice.eu! mabdul 10:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
To answer Daniel.Cardenas question about playing favorites - the criteria I try to judge this is outlined above - if source aggregates wide range of sites - it is OK, if it reports only for its own site - then it is not OK. This seem like a clear and reasonable criteria, and it is accepted by most of the editors here. "degree of whackiness", on the other hand, is very subjective criteria :) Wikiolap (talk) 17:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Google is a single site, Wikipedia is a single site and they are not an aggregate of wide range of site. --Sandro kensan (talk) 20:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wide is a subjective term. Is browser statistics based on 92% of one country wide?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude - "In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the (base 10) exponent being applied to this amount ..."
15% ? You should remove statowl also then.
Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 21:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A few points. (a) We have Wikimedia, not Wikipedia stats here. (b) It's not about how many sites, it's about how representative a sample the figures are of all actual web users. (c) Figures from one site that serves mainly people who want to learn to build websites, or from several sites that all serve mainly US American users, are not representative figures of the World Wide Web (d) Even if we did use just Wikipedia figures from every language (which we don't, see (a)), that would still be a very representative sample of worldwide usage. As we include all the other Wikimedia projects worldwide too, it's even bigger and better. I am against using small, narrow and non-representative samples (especially ones that provide mostly outliers in each stat, or other anomalous results), but I don't see Wikimedia's figures in that category at all. --Nigelj (talk) 21:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
How do you feel about statowl? Is that too small and narrow? Does w3schools compensate well? I think if we are going to allow lopsided stats than go ahead and allow more of them. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 23:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If we had thousands of skewed data sets, I'd agree with you - add them all - but we only have two or three such data sets. If we add so few, we just end up looking at noise instead of signal. Therefore, my view is that we should exclude any data that does not (as best as we can tell) represent a broad cross section of the actual web users worldwide. When I say exclude, I don't mean from the page or from discussion or consideration on the page, but from the tables of summary stats that are used to come up with our headline figures (the medians). I think we have a responsibility here as an important tertiary source - where else are people going to look to find an overview answer to this question? Wikipedia is highly rated in every way, and our overview/headline carries some weight. --Nigelj (talk) 10:28, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My point is lets force the issue to get a better wikipedia. Lets add the skewed data, so people can't pick and choose their skewed data. Either its all in there or its not. Therefore we will get a better wikipedia. Do you think wikipedia is better having select skewed input? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:12, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NetApplication unique visitors

«Netapplications bases its usage share mainly on the usage statistics of 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors.» I ask: "160 million unique visitors" is it a correct sentence?

The official netapplication site writes: «We ‘count’ unique visitors to our network sites, and only count one unique visit to each network site per day.» [3] I suppose unique visit to each network site is different from unique visit to all network sites. Or "each and "all" is the same?

So if each single site has unique visitors that is summed with other unique visitors to other network site then 160 million divided 40,000 website is the average unique visitors from one site that Netapplication monitored. 4000 is the one site average unique visitors: not much.

The 40,000 website's unique visitors is less, much less of 160 million. 160 million is a sum of unique visitors but 160 million are not unique visitors. Do you agree?--Sandro kensan (talk) 17:58, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The world map of most popular browsers by country is available at http://www.browserrank.com. It is updated regularly (weekly) and it is based on statcounter.com data. It also shows usage share of Internet Explorer and Chrome on country level too. It should be included as a visualization of worldwide distribution of popular browsers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.65.80.66 (talk) 16:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Additional stats

Should there be articles for additional browser statistics such as:

Smallman12q (talk) 18:47, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

January wikimedia update

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Erik Zachte <ezachte@....org> wrote:

On 2/6/2011 1:34 AM, Daniel Cardenas wrote:
Hi Eric,
Do you know if there are instructions somewhere, on how to create the
traffic analysis report? I'm interested in seeing the data for January.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2010-12/SquidReportClients.htm
Thanks,
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

I will update the report in coming week when I get home from US conference. Complete automation of the reports is on the to do list, but that may take a while.

Best, Erik
Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:02, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

old stat pages

copied from archive 2:

== World Wide Web Survey 1994-1998 ==

How come the other browsers in the GVU WWW user survey (January 1994 to October 1998) aren't listed? There are also other surveys at [4].Smallman12q (talk) 14:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I found some more interesting historic links:

mabdul 14:18, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

to do: expand wikimedia mobile browsers

Mobile Safari at 3.73% + desktop at 5.53% = 9.26%. That's an interesting statistic. :) I was thinking of having sub headings. Safari with 3 subheadings of desktop, mobile, and total. Don't know if we should do something similar for mobile other. Such as subheadings for android, ...
Disappointing that statcounter stats don't come close.   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox

 Chrome

 Safari

 Opera

 Mobile
other
Desktop Mobile Total
January 2011 41.56% 28.71% 11.75% 5.53% 3.73% 9.26 % 3.55% 3.17%

Probably need to have total mobile and non safari mobile. Kind of messy.  :(   I think I'm not going to bother with the whole thing, unless someone has a better idea.  :)   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 06:38, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

what about opera and opera mobile, opera mini, opera wii and opera ds? mabdul 10:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox

 Chrome

 Safari

 Opera

 Android

 Mobile
Desktop Mobile Total Desktop Mobile Total Other Total
January 2011 41.56% 28.71% 11.75% 5.53% 3.73% 9.26 % 3.55% 0.70% 4.25% 0.90% 1.57% 6.90%

Getting unwieldy don't you think? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:40, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a widescreen monitor... For me it doesn't matter... The question is should we open the box of Pandora? (what about mobile ie, chrome will also go mobile. FF is already mobile) mabdul 18:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Another suggestion is to have two tables - for desktop browsers and for mobile browsers. It probably will make difference more visible, because market shares in mobile are very different from desktop...Wikiolap (talk) 05:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I do also agree that this would be the better solution. mabdul 12:39, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think of 5.53+3.73=9.26? I think most people want to see that. How would you show it? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 19:47, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I know that the Firefox stats are wrong! (defacto) Shouldn't we add the Iceweasel stats to Firefox since they are IDENTICAL BROWSERS? IE mobile and FF mobile should get also part of this table then... As Wikiolap said: make this really sense to compare mobile with desktop versions? separate (additional) table with desktop against mobile browsing would be good like this: mabdul 20:11, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report
Period desktop Mobile
January 2011 93.1% 6.90%
Don't understand. Are we going to display the 9.6% for Safari?? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 04:52, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
sry for the delay. I meant that we could create an extra table for displaying the percentages between the mobile and the desktop stats. this is or maybe this will become important to see the changing of the browsing behaviour. I won't update the charts with safari, but let us discuss this in the section below. mabdul 10:38, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Chrome in Albania

Chrome has already become the most popular browser in Albania with a marketshare of 50% and over. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.232.87.60 (talk) 15:14, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Statcounter and ipod

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:13 AM, StatCounter Global Stats <globalstats@...com> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

6.3% refers to the iPod Touch and *not* to the iPad.

The iPad does *not* meet our definition of a "mobile device" and is *not* therefore included in our Mobile Browser stats at all.

The iPod and iPhone *do* meet our definition and are both included in our Mobile Browser stats.


StatCounter Global Stats

http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://twitter.com/statcountergs 


-----Original Message-----
From: "Daniel Cardenas" <daniel...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 19 February, 2011 04:32 
To: "StatCounter Global Stats" <globalstats@....com>
Subject: Ipod touch 6.3% of usage? Perhaps it is more likely ipad?

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201102-201102-bar

Hi,

Ipod touch 6.3% of usage? Perhaps it is more likely ipad?

Thanks, Daniel

Discussion on Narrow Stats

Statowl represents the U.S. mostly and w3schools represents web technology enthusiasts. Should we have these narrow stats in the summary table? Previous discussion suggests that Statowl is not too narrow, while w3schools is too narrow. Please share your thoughts below. Perhaps the most relevant wikipedia policy is Neutral point of view. I suggest either both or neither be allowed and not pick and choose your favorite statistic. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 20:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

statowl represents stats from many different sites while w3schools only shows stats for its own site - this is the reason to have statowl stats and not w3schools. This is also the consensus that was previously reached on this page. Until different consensus is reached, please respect the previous decision and don't make new changes to the article in this area. Thanks ! Wikiolap (talk) 05:40, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Instead of defining it multi sites versus single site, how about global reach versus primarily regional stats? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Remove both.--Sandro kensan (talk) 20:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The question about statowl has been discussed before - see the discussion and votes here: Talk:Usage_share_of_web_browsers/Archive_3#Remove_Statowl_from_summary. Likewise, w3schools has been also discussed before - Talk:Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Add_w3schools. Both discussions represent current consensus. Consensus can be changed, of course, you can request new vote (and keep rerequesting it every month) - there is nothing in the code of Wikipedia which would prevent that. Even though there don't seem to be new arguments, the corpus of editors change, their opinions change, and the result of vote may change too. (I personally find the jihad for removal of statowl from summary table a bit misplaced, and tactics used being questionable). Wikiolap (talk) 06:44, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes please cease your jihad and your questionable tactics. Claiming consensus to keep statowl when the consensus was to remove it. Please don't add it back in, until the consensus changes. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:15, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel - I apologize for poor choice of words - it was unprofessional. I try not to trick the system, and I should assume that other editors act in good faith as well.Wikiolap (talk) 15:16, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand the problem right now: what changed in the last few months? mabdul 18:37, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There are/were 6 remove votes for statowl and 3 keeps. Seems the keep camp incorrectly believed they had a consensus to keep. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And I didn't even voted... (oh and I would vote against!) mabdul 22:31, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In light of the previous consensus linked above, as well as my own opinion on the matter, neither statowl nor w3schools should appear on the list. If either of them are currently there, they should be removed. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 23:16, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Now after the removal of statowl from the summary table, the summary table in the middle of the article and worldwide view table at the beginning became exactly the same. Is there a reason to keep both of them now ? I propose that one of them is removed (I don't have an opinion about which one). Wikiolap (talk) 05:55, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unique users

What NetApplication means with unique users? From [5] there are 2 billion unique users in Internet, NetApplication count 160 million unique visitors (8% of the Net):

'Netapplications bases its usage share mainly on the usage statistics of 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors.'

Is possible monitored 8% of the word wide web with only 40 thousand website?

The answer is NO. --Sandro kensan (talk) 20:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jan 2011 Bar chart does not match the key

a little consistency please :) key says IE ~43% char is 46%

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