This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: Who's reading the site
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
I decided to take a look at last week's web traffic, and came to some interesting numbers. Unlike the last time I did this, I haven't split out XML access from overall access for the first set of numbers - this is overall, for all pages on the cincomsmalltalk site:
Tool
Access Percentage
Mozilla/Netscape
33%
Internet Explorer
21%
BottomFeeder
12%
Net News Wire
8%
SharpReader
3%
BlogLines
2%
NewsGator
2%
Liferea
2%
Planet Smalltalk
1%
Other
16%
Now, taking just the accesses for the XML files (which now makes up nearly 50% of all page traffic):
Tool
Access Percentage
BottomFeeder
24%
Mozilla/Netscape
16%
Net News Wire
16%
SharpReader
6%
NewsGator
5%
BlogLines
5%
Internet Explorer
3%
Liferea
3%
FeedDemon
2%
Planet Smalltalk
2%
RSS Bandit
1%
JetBrains
1%
PubSub
1%
Other
15%
I did some rounding, so some of those numbers are a bit imprecise. Still, there are some interesting things there. I have a lot of Mac users hitting the feeds, but - if they hit via the browser, they sure don't use Safari. Adoption of the Sage plugin for Mozilla seems to be going up smartly as well.