Webstats weirdness

[andysocial]

OK, please someone explain to me this anomaly:

According to the user agent logs for my site, I'm disappointed to see only 0.5% of the visitors are using Opera - my primary browser. I recently downloaded Mozilla 1.0, and I'm thinking I may change my primary browser soon...

Anyway, the anomaly is this - there was no version 5 of Netscape (also known as Mozilla due to a long history of rivalry with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champlaign's Mosaic program). There was a version 4.x and now version 6.x, yet there has been only one hit in the month of July from "Mozilla/6.xx" and 2025 from "Mozilla/5.xx" browsers. So, does this mean that the user agent tag sent with every HTTP request from Netscape 6.x and Mozilla 1.x is fictitious? Does Netscape/AOL intend to keep identifying their browser by one lower number internally than externally? Isn't this rather confusing to the software developers?

I need a more mentally stimulating day job...

Comments

[goninzo.livejournal.com]

www.granzeau.com 192.168.1.101 - - [31/Jul/2002:12:48:52 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611"

that's what you should see. `8r) Notice the 'rv:1.1a'? That's the mozilla real version.

[andysocial]

That was my assumption, and I understand their using "5.x" as an internal version before they released Netscape 6.0, but now? At what point will they change the useragent code to match the actual version of the browser?

Considering that Gecko is separate from the user interface, it could get really weird at some point. I envision a useragent line showing up on a log as "Browsdude 1.1 (blah blah) Gecko 2.2" or something odd like that.

WAIT A MINUTE

[lilsister73.livejournal.com]

I told you about Mozilla. RIGHT? And I think it SUCKS so far. What the HELL did you find worth a SHIT about it? HHMMM???

Mozilla

[andysocial]

It works, it renders pages correctly, it has the tabbed interface that I like in Opera. It seems to choke on fewer pages than Opera does, but I'll have to test it more to see.

Re: Mozilla

[lilsister73.livejournal.com]

OK....

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

phreak!

Phreak?

[andysocial]

Um, I've never been a phreak, and I don't know anything about dialing tones and the Cap'n Crunch whistle...

Re: Phreak?

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

connected to Mindows3#.78 and through the xdetia 7.2 portal server which connects at a daub rate of 89.67 pi seconds per gigawatt; not even the Nolar Bare 4.5 can match the serendipi-di 2.1 of the Lox server when connected to the transponding meta tarsal phalange of the Botox gateway. Phreak...