Browsers by OS

Browsers by operating system statistics

[athinktank]

We have analyzed our web logs with both Webtrends and Analog. Both give information about the browsers and operating system in different reports.

Do any of you know of a tool that will relate the different browsers to the different OSs? I would love to get my hands on a report that would read like....

XP 10000
ie6 8000
ie5.5 1000
ie5.1 500
98 2000
ie 6 1000
ie 5.5 500

etc.

Anyone ever come across something like this? The only solution I can think of is to write a custom app that would parse the header information.... and I do not want to do this.

Thanks in advance.

[wkitty42]

FWIW: i would not try to put any hard numbers on what you see in the useragent strings WRT what OS they are running on... there are many security aware folk out there who use filtering software or similar to block or alter their useragent strings...

ie: the browser i normally use contains the strings for three OS' in it... it also contains the strings for two browsers other than the one that it is... however, you can't tell with any certainity which are the accurate ones...

depending on how your analysis software operates, it may catch each of the entries or just the first...

just a word to the wise...

[tedster]

I'm using FastStats. You could access the data by using filters, although it's not in the default reports. It would be a bit cumbersome -- you would analyze the same set of logs a separate time for each OS -- but you could get the data you're looking for.

I often do this for Macintosh, because the browser trends for Mac users seem to be quite volatile.

[athinktank]

Thanks for your comments.

I guess I missed the key goal here. My QA people do not want to be faced with the daunting task of determining and testing all of the permutations of OSs to Browsers. I found on the W3C a list of most used OSs and most used Browsers, but nothing that told me the top two used on Win98, the top two browsers used on Win2k, WinXP, Mac, Apple, etc. I just need to give them some direction and maybe 5-10 combos to work with first.

For now it looks like:
XP - ie6
XP - ie/aol
98 - ie6
98 - ie5.5
98 - ie5.0
win2k - ie6
win2k - ie5.5
mac - ie5.22
mac - ie5.0

Luckily no NT4 floating around in the numbers =)

Too bad there is nothing on W3C that confirms or denies those pairings.

Thanks again for your comments.