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From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).


That makes sense considering Edge is a default browser on the most popular (desktop) OS, and this is from a random distribution of users.


124 people still rocking Netscape!


Or bots. When I still cared about visitor statistics 10+ years ago, I saw unrealistic amounts of visitors using old versions of Netscape, browsers on Amiga and other niche systems. They were probably all bots in disguise.


Last week, one of those was me. I was messing with old VM images and was using .gov web sites for testing connectivity.


and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.


"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...


I love it when people put the instruction for what to enter into a field instead of actually filling out the field.

I run into it ALL the time and no matter how you write instructions, at least 1/3 of people won't read them but just skim to what they think they need and then copy/paste. Ugh.


Also shows a shocking 90,832 users viewing who are users of 'BestBuy'.


`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar).

Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?


>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.


Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.


I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.


What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.




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