There’s gold in dem dare logs!

I took a dive into my site logs files via Awstats and found some interesting tidbits.

I never liked IE; in fact I refer to it as “IEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”.  Historically, it has been riddled with bugs, security vunerabilities, non-standard rendering and a general ‘f-you, we know better’ attitude to web developers/designers everywhere.  I’ve gotten to be such a curmudgeon about it that I generally refuse to use a site that requires IE to function.  Sadly, it is used by a majority, but shrinking, percentage of web surfers.  I wanted to see if the folks reading my blog were ‘smarter than the average bear’.

Turns out, they are, in fact, smarter.  IE is used by 17.2% of my ‘readers’ while Mozilla(+Netscape) users represent 14.7%.  That is much closer than users as whole which is more like 75/25.  But the surprising fact was that 53.8% were ‘unknown’.  Hmm…  Deeping a bit deeper and I found a bevy of RSS readers and a few spiders.   So it seems that a majority of you are using RSS readers to follow along at home rather than visiting the site directly.

Interesting. Continue reading There’s gold in dem dare logs!