Re: [LUG] Website Stats please...

[e-mail greybear2k5 <greybear2k5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not a computer professional or sysop, just a user who prefers Linux.  
Am I part of the target membership?

Among my collection of computing bits and pieces I have a dual boot laptop running Xubuntu and WindowsXP purely because The Open University keep sending course software that includes macros in Excel spreadsheets ... and they will not open in Libre Office.  
All other documents are useable as provided, so if that one requirement is removed, the Windoze partition will go with it.

I suspect I'm not alone in having a small Windoze 'legacy' on at least one machine, for just such situations.
Luckily I don't often get asked to sort out other people's computer problems (usually caused by viruses or hacking attempts). Requests for help are usually met with a smug grin and "Well I use Linux, so I don't have those sorts of problem. You should try it"

Jimbo

On 31 December 2012 11:34, Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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From: Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 0:02
Subject: Re: [LUG] Website Stats please...

On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Neil Stone wrote:

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> On 12/30/12 22:57, Gordon Henderson wrote:
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>> Can you post the current stats of the dclug/dcglug websites please,
>> or tell me where to get them?
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>> Thanks,
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> What stats are you after exactly ?

The website stats - ie hits/visitors a day. Referers, the usual stuff.

> and out of interest why ?

Why not? It's "our" website, so why shouldn't we know how well (or badly) it's working for us?

Simon has provided the data - we're getting about 200 different visitors a day.

This is one of the saddest bits:

--- Operating Systems by visits
* Different operating systems listed: 5
  Windows    : 943      |############################################ 69.4%
  Unknown    : 239      |###########                                  17.6%
  Linux      : 155      |#######                                      11.4%
  Macintosh  : 20        |                                            1.5%
  SunOS      : 1        |                                            0.1%

Or maybe we can look at it and think that it's really lots of windows people looking for a change...

Gordon

Perhaps not windows folk looking for a change, like many I keep a MS Windows OS machine operational all the time.
(After all, it communicates with my paying customers in their language, their web email only plays ball with MS IE)
While all machines dual boot, my preference, I probably use MS OS 80% time, so calls to websites normally go out of MS OS.
Hence my statistics would normally show windows origination even if Linux is subject.
For example I am at present reading a PDF on windows machine which shows book on Linux program, while I learn/experiment
 with program it on also open Linux system.
Computer tases are catholic.

 

regards

Eion MacDonald

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