Lies, Damned Lies and Linux at 0.36%

[Derek Broughton]

Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:

> On Monday 14 August 2006 11:22, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> 
>> OneStat is reporting on
> 
> Oh. Math fun! This report should read: "0.36% of our service users are
> using Linux." -- I don't know what they are doing, so maybe this is a
> valid number for thier business?
> 
> OTOH my site gets 60% of traffic from *NIX users. Should I report that
> *NIX has 60% of maket pie based on that fact?
> 
& how do they know, what OS is used?  If you make your website properly
support any browser, when I visit you'll know I used konqueror.  If you
don't, but it'll work with konqueror anyway, you'll think I showed up using
IE 6 and Win XP.  If it doesn't work with Konqueror _or_ firefox, I won't
be using your site anyway.
-- 
derek