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DougWeb Statistics

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital

Introduction

This is where you can see at a glance what's hot and what's not, with the aid of some pretty graphs. All the statistics are generated from my server logs using AWStats. The copy of AWStats I'm running has been modified by myself to do the following:

  1. (Optionally) reports window size, not just screen size.
  2. Reports % of browsers that support SVG.
  3. Detection of alpha/beta Internet Explorers (i.e. it reports IE7b, not just IE7)
  4. Detection of all version parts for Firefox (including alpha/beta)
  5. Detects 'Minefield', 'BonEcho' and 'Gran Paradiso' browsers as Firefox (alpha/beta Firefoxes now use codenames to deter Joe Public from trying them out)
  6. Detection of Opera versions (even when pretending to be IE or Mozilla)
  7. (Near-complete) detection of Safari versions (Safari reports a build, not a version - and my build->version table only has information for 'release' builds)
  8. Detection of 'Mozilla Application Suite' versions.
  9. Removal of some bad assumptions that could/did/would wrongly identify browsers as Netscape v1-4
  10. Removed bug in 'misc stats', where you couldn't disable the display of JavaScript disabled without disabling display of 'Java Enabled'.
  11. Only reports GET and POST requests (to eliminate many referrer spammers)
  12. Incorporates the patch by rdokey to have rolling 13 month view of stats (instead of Jan-Dec)

The modifications are available here.

Detailed Statistics

Until fairly recently, I maintained individual statistic pages for each resource within the DVD Profiler Resource Centre. However the traffic to DougWeb has increased massively since then, and generating those statistics was putting too much load on the webserver. However, the statistics are still available as part of the overall 'Resource Centre'.