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.
The other cool factoid is that I have readers in:
- UK
- Israel
- Netherlands
- South Africa
- Belgium
- Ukraine
Now, this info. is infered from the IP address of the person visiting the site. This method is not entirely accurate but it is pretty good (80%+ accurate). Good enough to grin at the fact that I am HUGE in the Ukraine!