After a jaw dropping number of BottomFeeder downloads last week, things settled back down this week - but still at a rate above what I've been seeing for awhile - 361 per day, on average this week:
| Platform | BottomFeeder Downloads |
| Windows | 626 |
| Mac 8/9 | 376 |
| HPUX | 371 |
| Sources | 317 |
| Update | 313 |
| Mac X | 181 |
| Linux x86 | 179 |
| CE ARM | 90 |
| Solaris | 22 |
| Windows98/ME | 22 |
| AIX | 15 |
| Linux Sparc | 13 |
| Linux PPC | 2 |
| Source Script | 1 |
I'm pleased to see that 98/ME number dropping as well - that's a platform I think we would all like to see go away. So onward - to the HTML page accesses to the blogs:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| Mozilla | 45.6% |
| Internet Explorer | 38% |
| MSN Bot | 7.2% |
| Google Bot | 4.6% |
| Other | 4.6% |
The interesting thing about those numbers is how different they are from the aggregator distribution. There's virtually no Mac presence in the HTML numbers, and IE is well represented (although still not a plurality). Things are a lot different in the RSS view - it's something of a different audience:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| Mozilla | 24.2% |
| BottomFeeder | 17.8% |
| Net News Wire | 11.6% |
| Other | 9.4% |
| Planet Smalltalk | 4.6% |
| Safari RSS | 4.2% |
| Internet Explorer | 3.3% |
| NewsGator | 3.1% |
| BlogLines | 2.7% |
| SharpReader | 2.6% |
| BlogSearch | 2.5% |
| Feed Demon | 2.3% |
| Magpie | 2% |
| Feed Reader | 1.9% |
| RSS Bandit | 1.6% |
| Liferea | 1.2% |
| Feed Tagger | 1% |
| JetBrains | 1% |
| Google Bot | 1% |
| News Fire | 1% |
| MSN Bot | 1% |
You can see the heavier Mac penetration right there. It's a fascinating divide, and tells you something about the popularity of the Apple platform in the "bleeding edge" crowd.
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