Relative popularity of browsers

Brian Behlendorf (brian@wired.com)
Fri, 26 Aug 1994 19:19:32 -0700 (PDT)


For anyone who's interested...

I've been recording the USER_AGENT variable of every client connecting to=
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Wired's home page over the past two weeks. Out of 20800 connections,=20
here's the stats. I threw away everything in the string after the first=20
'/', so as to combine versions and throw out the extra text appended by a=
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cache it goes through (about 5% were going through caches). =20

Notes:=20

"WinMosaic" is version 2.0, before alpha 7 - "NCSA Mosaic(tm) for=20
Windows" is the new alpha 7.

"MacMosaicB6" is any pre-2.0 version.=20

The blank line are the accesses from clients not sending that info=20
along. Most of those were from "ix.netcom.com", so I'm presuming it was=20
their NetCruiser browser before they put in those stats.

My favorite entries: "WebBunny", "MMMMozilla", "Texture", "Delphi-HTML",=20
and "W3M2" :)

I won't reply to queries as to where some of these browsers were being=20
used, so as to not make any enemies....

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30.8% 6425 NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System
24.4% 5075 WinMosaic
13.9% 2911 Lynx
9.3% 1947 MacMosaicB6=20
7.5% 1576 MacMosaic 2.0.0
3.4% 714 MacWeb
3.3% 695 =20
1.4% 293 NetCruiser
.9% 197 LII-Cello
.8% 175 EI*Net
.7% 151 OmniWeb
.6% 131 CERN-LineMode
.6% 127 MacMosaic 2.0.0=20
.5% 107 unknown
.2% 56 Spyglass Mosaic
.2% 42 Mosaic for Amiga
.1% 29 S-Mosaic
.1% 26 AIR_Mosaic
.1% 26 Emacs-W3
.1% 25 DosLynx
.1% 23 Chimera-HTTP
.1% 21 Proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD
.1% 21 AIR_Mosaic(16bit)
.0% 17 NCSA Mosaic(tm) for Windows
.0% 11 TALIGENT WWW BROWSER SAMPLE
.0% 10 Texture for the X Window System
.0% 9 Mozilla
.0% 8 WebBunny
.0% 8 WebCrawler
.0% 7 PATHWORKS Mosaic
.0% 6 MOMspider
.0% 6 NCSA Mosaic f=FCr das X-Window-System
.0% 6 WinMozilla
.0% 6 EIT Link Verifier Robot
.0% 4 MacWWW
.0% 4 CERN-HTTPD
.0% 4 Chimera
.0% 4 MidasWWW
.0% 3 EIT-Link-Verifier-Robot
.0% 2 MMMMMozilla
.0% 1 CERN-NextStep-WorldWideWeb.app
.0% 1 conFs
.0% 1 Infomosaic for the X Window System
.0% 1 cache Lagoon
.0% 1 IBM Mosaic
.0% 1 OLIAS
.0% 1 via proxy gateway CERN-HTTPD
.0% 1 WWW Collector
.0% 1 GET
.0% 1 W3M2
.0% 1 Delphi-HTML
.0% 1 JumpStation-robot