The log reports are easier to compile now - Pete hatch (the guy who manages the server this stuff runs on) has separated the RSS logs, the main logs, and the blog logs. That makes it easier to run the various scripts I use for counting. With that said, here's the latest set of reports - these go back to April 9th:
| Platform | BottomFeeder Downloads |
| Mac 8/9 | 966 |
| Windows | 859 |
| Mac X | 617 |
| HPUX | 548 |
| Sources | 446 |
| Linux x86 | 312 |
| CE ARM | 153 |
| Update | 139 |
| Windows98/ME | 80 |
| Solaris | 38 |
| Linux Sparc | 38 |
| AIX | 26 |
| Linux PPC | 19 |
| Source Script | 15 |
| SGI | 14 |
| ADUX | 7 |
The interesting thing here - to me - is the number of downloads for the older Mac platform. It's not the best platform for Bf right now, but it's certainly in demand. Next up is the RSS access statistics, by aggregator:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| BottomFeeder | 22% |
| Mozilla | 19% |
| Net News Wire | 16% |
| Other | 15.7% |
| SharpReader | 4.6% |
| BlogLines | 4.5% |
| NewsGator | 4.4% |
| Internet Explorer | 2.3% |
| Planet Smalltalk | 2.3% |
| Feed Demon | 2% |
| RSS Bandit | 1.2% |
| Magpie | 1% |
| Liferea | 1% |
| JetBrains | 1% |
| Shrook | 1% |
| Feed Reader | 1% |
| PubSub | 1% |
It looks like more people are accessing the site with the popular Windows tools - NewsGator accesses are up, for instance. Even so, the Mac stats conform to the BottomFeeder download patterns - there's strong interest in the Mac platform among my readers. Finally, the general HTML accesses for the site:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| Mozilla | 46.5% |
| Internet Explorer | 30.2% |
| Other | 14.9% |
| BottomFeeder | 2.7% |
| Net News Wire | 2.2% |
| Java | 1.5% |
| BlogLines | 1% |
| Liferea | 1% |
That's interesting - a small (but significant) percentage of the web access is coming through aggregators rather than through browsers. That tells me that there are people out there "living" in their aggregator rather than in the browser. Interesting...
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