IE accounts for 95% of browsers

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Dustin Decker wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
>> The stats for www.ethereal.com differs from theirs pretty significantly -
>> 73% IE, 10% Modern Mozilla and 4% Classic Netscape.  The rest are mostly
>> robots.  What sort of user agent statistics are other people seeing?
> 
> Random sample of stats from some domains...
<snip>
> Lots of IE out there...

Indeed...nothing but IE in the top 15 agents for our two primary 
corperate websites:

www.newtek.com
Top 15 of 6806 Total User Agents
# Hits User Agent
1 830339 15.36% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 590357 10.92% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
3 386354 7.15% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
4 223475 4.13% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
5 209204 3.87% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
6 188511 3.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
7 184647 3.42% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
8 121422 2.25% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
9 119787 2.22% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
10 103689 1.92% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
11 82117 1.52% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1
12 81806 1.51% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
13 81177 1.50% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
14 80429 1.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)
15 80283 1.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

www.lightwave3d.com
Top 15 of 5819 Total User Agents
# Hits User Agent
1 3058679 17.13% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 1834734 10.27% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
3 1372236 7.68% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
4 821422 4.60% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
5 708869 3.97% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
6 579881 3.25% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
7 528597 2.96% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
8 455581 2.55% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
9 437080 2.45% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
10 317995 1.78% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
11 273248 1.53% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET 
CLR 1
12 264389 1.48% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
13 256438 1.44% Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)
14 248973 1.39% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
15 222693 1.25% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YComp 
5.0.

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Things don't start getting interesting until I look at stats for my 
firewall site.  Traffic's been tapering off as most folks are hitting 
the SF project site, but I have a few odd agents in the top 15.  Note, 
however, that none of the oddball agents are actual *BROWSERS*! :-)

lrp.steinkuehler.net
Top 15 of 1281 Total User Agents
# Hits User Agent
1 13963 8.50% Wget/1.8.2
2 13635 8.30% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
3 11172 6.80% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
4 9879 6.01% Teleport Pro/1.29
5 8557 5.21% FAST-WebCrawler/3.6 (atw-crawler at fast dot no; http://fast.
6 7770 4.73% Scooter/3.2
7 6227 3.79% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
8 5136 3.13% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
9 4950 3.01% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
10 4652 2.83% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
11 3852 2.34% Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98)
12 2452 1.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
13 2316 1.41% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
14 2242 1.36% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1
15 2092 1.27% TurnitinBot/1.5 http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.htm

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net