OS and Browser statistics

I have a bit over a year of logs stashed away in our system. So I'm comparing March 2005 vs March 2006.

[Student MyWeb] March o' 05 March o' 06
Most requested page: ~stazelj2/revolutionary /~kenagym/videos/SKATE%20at%20woodinville.WMV
Hits for most-requested 1128 9191
Top Referral http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php http://search.yahoo.com/video/view
Top Search Engine search.msn.com search.yahoo.com
#1 OS Windows (63%) Unreported (54%)
#2 OS Unreported (30%) Windows (43%)
#3 OS Mac (6%) Mac (4%)
#1 Browser IE (46%) Mozilla Compatible Agent (42%)
#2 Browser Mozilla (20%) IE (34%)
#3 Browser Mozilla Compatible Agent' (13%) Mozilla (9%)

From this it is clear to me that the majority of traffic the Student MyWeb server serves is that skating video. I'm not sure what "Mozilla Compatible Agent" is, but it is generating a lot of sessions. Time to see what doing the sort on 'Bytes' instead gives us:

[Bytes] 2005 2006
#1 OS Windows (47GB/53%) Windows (115GB/54%)
#2 OS Unknown (37GB/42%) Unknown (87GB/41%)
#3 OS Mac (4GB/5%) Mac (12GB/5%)
#1 Browser IE (39GB/44%) IE (91GB/42%)
#2 Browser NSPlayer (22GB/25%) NSPlayer (59GB/27%)
#3 Browser contype (11GB/11%) Mozilla (26GB/12%)

So when looking at bytes transferred, there isn't a lot of movement in either OS or Browser used. NSPlayer constitutes a large percentage of the data being served, which makes sense since media files are huge. Safari was under 4% in either case. Honestly, I did figure that Macs would make for a larger percentage of the total then they did.

Now for a look at the FacStaff side. No skating video over there, so it should provide some interesting data.

[FacStaff MyWeb] March o '05 March o' 06
Most requested page: /~riedesg/sysadmin1138/atom.xml ~riedesg/sysadmin1138/atom.xml
Hits for most-requested 5211 11043
Top Referral www.google.com/search www.google.com/search
Top Search Engine www.google.com/ www.google.com/
#1 OS Windows (3.63GB/75%) Windows (22GB/78%)
#2 OS Unknown (1GB/20%) Unknown (5GB/18%)
#3 OS Mac (.2GB/5%) Mac (1GB/4%)
#1 Browser IE (3.3GB/68%) IE (18GB/63%)
#2 Browser Mozilla (.32GB/7%) Mozilla (4GB/15%)
#3 Browser msnbot (.21GB/4%) Mozilla Compatible Agent (1GB/4%)

Not too surprisingly, the top hit is still the rss file for this blog. It is very clear from this data that MyWeb-FacStaff is used a lot less than it is on the Student side. About an eighth as much, as it happens.

The OS/browser breakdown on the FacStaff side is also interesting. Clearly less media players are hitting the server, so we get a more 'pure' sample. Macs constitute about 5% of traffic either way. It is also clear that Macs aren't all using Safari. Linux is on the chart, and in both cases score about .2% of the total traffic.

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