Website Statistics - Most Popular Books, Browsers, and OS

Most Popular Books

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The table below contains the traffic percentages in different directories during the period from October 13, 2005 to January 3, 2006. Since one directory is for one book, the table also represents the popularities of my tutorial books. It clearly shows that JSP, PHP and JDK are the most popular books.

 1   /jsp/         14.32%
 2   /php/         10.80%
 3   /jdk/         10.49%
 4   /asp/          6.20%
 5   /crypto/       4.80%
 6   /perl/         4.70%
 7   /swing/        4.31%
 8   /xml/          4.30%
 9   /gb2312/       3.29%
10   /sql/          2.72%
11   /gb2312_gb/    2.38%
12   /java/         2.37%
13   /year_gb/      2.31%
14   /ws/           2.16%
15   /jvm/          1.79%
16   /cs_b/         1.70%
17   /xhtml/        1.47%
18   /year/         1.44%
19   /perl_b/       1.30%
20   /sort/         1.20%
21   /cs_a/         0.97%
22   /unicode/      0.84%
23   /data/         0.66%
24   /win/          0.63%
25   /xhtml_gb/     0.27%
    (Other)        12.58%

Most Popular Search Engines

The table below contains the request percentages from different search engines during the period from October 13, 2005 to January 3, 2006. It clearly shows you that Google is the most popular search engine.

 1   http://www.google.com/     58.00%
 2   http://www.google.co.in/    8.96%
 3   http://www.google.co.uk/    6.51%
 4   http://www.google.ca/       4.57%
 5   http://www.baidu.com/       3.69%
 6   http://www.google.de/       3.41%
 7   http://www.google.com.au/   2.51%
 8   http://search.msn.com/      2.45%
 9   http://www.google.nl/       2.07%
10   http://www.google.fr/       1.94%
11   http://www.google.com.br/   1.57%
12   http://www.google.it/       1.51%
13   http://www.google.es/       1.51%
14   http://www.google.se/       1.31%

Most Popular Web Browsers

The table below contains the request percentages from different browsers during the period from October 13, 2005 to January 3, 2006. It clearly shows you that Internet Explorer and Firefox are the most popular browsers. Internet Explorer is about 3 times popular than Firefox.

 1   MSIE                   61.33%
 2   Mozilla                22.29%
 3   Netscape                4.72%
 4   msnbot                  3.54%
 5   Mediapartners-Google    3.05%
 6   Opera                   1.98%
 7   Wget                    0.56%
 8   WebCopier               0.53%
 9   sohu agent              0.28%
10   Googlebot               0.23%
11   Baiduspider             0.21%
12   WebZIP                  0.20%
13   OpenWave                0.17%
14   Konqueror               0.13%
15   NutchCVS                0.11%
16   Netscape                0.09%
17   LinkWalker              0.09%
18   ia_archiver             0.05%
19   Lynx                    0.04%
20   RufusBot                0.04%
     (Other)                 0.35%

It's also interesting to see different search engines are recorded under different browser names.

Most Popular Operating Systems

The table below contains the request percentages from operating systems during the period from October 13, 2005 to January 3, 2006. Of course, Windows is the most popular operating system. I am surprised to see that Linux is under 3%. I thought there are a lots of Linux systems out there.

1   Windows                        62.95%
       Windows XP          30.00%
       Unknown Windows     16.51%
       Windows 2000        9.27%
       Windows 98          5.61%
       Windows NT          1.08%
       Windows ME          0.22%
       Windows 95          0.21%
       Windows 32-bit      0.05%
2   OS unknown                     32.24%
3   Unix                           2.48%
       Linux               2.36%
       BSD                 0.06%
       SunOS               0.05%
       HP-UX               0.00%
4   Robots                         1.56%
5   Macintosh                      0.78%
       Macintosh PowerPC   0.77%
       Unknown Macintosh   0.00%