It's Saturday, so it must be time for my weekly look at the log files. Looks like BottomFeeder averaged 383 downloads per day last week - not bad, if a little off from recent weeks. The distribution:
| Platform | BottomFeeder Downloads |
| HPUX | 602 |
| Windows | 569 |
| Sources | 414 |
| Mac 8/9 | 366 |
| Linux x86 | 198 |
| Mac X | 192 |
| Update | 141 |
| CE ARM | 101 |
| Windows98/ME | 24 |
| Solaris | 20 |
| AIX | 16 |
| Linux Sparc | 13 |
| Linux PPC | 12 |
| SGI | 7 |
| Source Script | 4 |
| ADUX | 3 |
No matter how many times I see it, that HPUX number astonishes me. And look - 3 Alpha Unix users. Support for that platform stayed at the 3.2 release. On to the html page accesses:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| Internet Explorer | 46.6% |
| Mozilla | 38.9% |
| Other | 7.5% |
| MSN Bot | 4.4% |
| Google Bot | 2.6% |
That shows that my readership has broadened - the IE usage going up indicates a more "mainstream" set of readers, since IE usage is still well above Mozilla's. Which is good for me - means I'm not simply talking to a small niche :) Anyway, on to the RSS logs, where we see what's happening in tool usage there:
| Tool | Percentage of Accesses |
| Mozilla | 30.4% |
| Net News Wire | 11.4% |
| BottomFeeder | 11.1% |
| Other | 10.1% |
| Safari RSS | 4.9% |
| SharpReader | 3.8% |
| NewsGator | 3.6% |
| Magpie | 2.8% |
| RSSReader | 2.5% |
| BlogSearch | 2.1% |
| Internet Explorer | 2% |
| BlogLines | 2% |
| Feed Demon | 1.8% |
| Planet Smalltalk | 1.8% |
| Feed Reader | 1.6% |
| RSS Bandit | 1.4% |
| JetBrains | 1.3% |
| Liferea | 1.2% |
| Google Bot | 1% |
| News Fire | 1% |
| MSN Bot | 1% |
It looks to me like the syndication features of Mozilla are getting to be "good enough" for most people interested in syndication technology - over time (especially after IE7 is released), I expect that trend to dominate.
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