It's time for my weekly look at the server logs. The download rate for BottomFeeder is continuing to be strong - they ran at better than 650 per day last week. The distribution of downloads follows:
Platform | BottomFeeder Downloads |
Windows | 1927 |
HPUX | 535 |
Sources | 533 |
Mac 8/9 | 446 |
Update | 277 |
Linux x86 | 231 |
Mac X | 205 |
CE ARM | 107 |
AIX | 57 |
Solaris | 56 |
Windows98/ME | 51 |
SGI | 44 |
Linux Sparc | 34 |
ADUX | 28 |
Linux PPC | 28 |
CE x86 | 8 |
Source Script | 5 |
Being the "off brand" choice for a number of platforms that aren't well served seems to help :) Next, let's see what things looked in in terms of tool access to the HTML pages.
Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
Mozilla | 51.8% |
Internet Explorer | 37.4% |
Other | 6% |
Google Bot | 2.5% |
MSN Bot | 1.3% |
Opera | 1% |
Looks like my readers still prefer Mozilla based browsers. It also looks like Microsoft has their bot more properly tuned - it's not grabbing an absurd share in that list anymore. On to the RSS hits:
Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
Mozilla | 26.7% |
BottomFeeder | 17.6% |
Other | 12.9% |
Net News Wire | 10% |
Safari RSS | 4.1% |
Planet Smalltalk | 3.7% |
NewsGator | 3.2% |
Magpie | 2.9% |
Internet Explorer | 2.7% |
Feed Demon | 2.5% |
BlogLines | 2.3% |
SharpReader | 2.2% |
Feed Reader | 1.9% |
RSS Bandit | 1.7% |
BlogSearch | 1.3% |
Liferea | 1.3% |
JetBrains | 1% |
Feed Tagger | 1% |
Google Bot | 1% |
I'm sure we'll see consolidation in the aggregator space eventually, but it's sure not happening yet - that tool distribution is still pretty varied. It's especially interesting to me how much - nearly 13% - falls into "other" (i.e., nothing in there individually approaches 1%). The field is still wide open.