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Archive for April, 2009
Browser Wars: Internet Explorer 8.0 Released on Windows Update
In: Browsers| Internet| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
29 Apr 2009While I was performing my standard Windows Update on my work virtual machine this morning, I wondered if the promised Internet Explorer 8.0 release to Windows Update had been dropped.
I switched to my test-bed, vanilla Windows XP virtual machine, ran Windows Update, and PING! Up it came. The masses of people who blindly do what [...]
Browser Wars: The Unique Pattern Of MSIE 6.0
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27 Apr 2009Internet Explorer 6.0, that infamous dinosaur from the dark ages of 2001, is still with us. And on occasion, I have hinted that this is the result of the biblically-slow pace of change in large corporate IT departments.
Well, now I have proof of this.
Using data from our good friends at StatCounter, this graph leaped from [...]
Browser Wars: StatCounter Data for Europe
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17 Apr 2009In the previous installment in this series, I looked at the browser share in North America. Across the water in Europe, the browser distribution metrics show the unique flavor that this continent brings to this fluid arena.
In Europe, MSIE7 and Firefox 3 are effectively tied for the lead as the most dominant browser, followed distantly [...]
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- Tags: browser share, browser war, Europe, Firefox 3, Microsoft, MSIE6, MSIE7, MSIE8, North America, Opera 9.6
On the persistence of family – William A Kinnear
14 Apr 2009The call came this morning.
It really wasn’t unexpected. Whenever I get one of those rare calls from my mother, I half expected the reason was to tell me that he had passed. It’s that aching feeling of tension that the ringing phone was going to tell me that he was gone.
My grandfather and I were [...]
MSIE6 Euthanized. Rejoicing Among Web Developers Begins.
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13 Apr 2009It’s official. According to the IE Dev Blog at MSDN, MSIE8 will be the direct upgrade path via Windows Update in the third week of April. [here]
I discussed the slow decrease in MSIE6 browser share earlier today, but it is not occurring fast enough for my liking. It is a browser from what seems like [...]
Browser Wars: StatCounter Data for North America
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13 Apr 2009Tracking browser penetration and market share has become a new obsession with me. With 2009 shaping up to be the year of the browser container, the choices that people make will affect the development of Web technologies for the next few years.
So far, the only new player to come out of the gate as a [...]
Scaling Web Analytics – Considerations for Consumers
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13 Apr 2009A comment on my Hit Tracking with PHP and MySQL post raised some interesting questions about what a consumer of Web analytics data needs to consider when selecting providers for their sites.
Most folks are familiar with the model of Web analytics vendors: You place their JS tag on your page which makes a call back [...]
IPV4 and Registrar Data – April 10 2009
In: Internet| The Web| Web analytics| analytics| registrars
10 Apr 2009From my IPV4 database, here are the the Registrar and Country statistics as of April 10 2009.
Since the last update, ARIN has crossed the 1.6B IPV4 address boundary, adding nearly 5M IPV4 Addresses. APNIC matched this growth by adding an additional 5M new addresses of its own.
Registrar Number of IPV4 [...]
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- Tags: AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, China, IP Registrar, IPV4, LACNIC, private IP space, Registrar, Republic of China, RIPE, United States