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.
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