VisitorVille are a Web analysis company, with the unusual ability to break down their results by company – presumably, by checking the records of which IP addresses are allocated to which organisation. They gather their data from sites within “a network of thousands of web sites” – although which sites those are isn’t immediately clear.
Although the results should be taken with a large pinch of salt, a great deal of fun can be had observing, for example, how large companies don’t really eat their own dogfood.
For example:
- 66% of Microsoft employee searches are done using Google…
- …and 30% of Yahoo! employees
- 0.7% of Microsoft employees use Firefox
- Either the detection isn’t too good, or a lot of Apple employees use iCab, OmniWeb or Opera
- There’s a small but enduring OS9 community at 1, Infinite Loop
- Sun uses more Windows than Solaris
- IBM is getting with the program; over 7% Firefox/Mozilla
- No-one at AOL whatsoever uses any version of Netscape
Fortunately, the Mozilla Foundation appears not to be in their database, so I can poke fun without potential embarrassment ;-)
And how about this: http://intelligence.visitorville.com/browser.php?co=Opera+Software
;-)
marcoos: Don’t forget that Opera uses the IE6 user agent string by default.
Google Inc.: Browsers –> Unknown 10.53%
huh? :roll:
Erik: I know that. This only shows that VisitorVille’s browser sniffing scripts isn’t very reliable (even with IE6 identification set in the Opera browser it still has the word “Opera” in HTTP_USER_AGENT).
…and now it’s been Slashdotted. “An anonymous reader” submitted the article, which is basically a amplified rewrite of this blog post. Ah, well.