Statistics

Statistics
Well the poll certainly indicates that the blog is the way to go for announcements, news, technical and general burble. With the vote hovering around 90% in favour of the blog for the whole of December and finishing with 89% in favour, this will be my preferred communication medium for the time being.

Following the inclusion of the ‘Stat Counter’ plug-in, several of you have asked what browser is most popular and what are the preferred screen resolutions that people are running. I’ve now had over 1000 visits from as far west as Victoria, British Columbia in Canada , as far east as Auckland, New Zealand and with Cape Town in South Africa and Oslo in Norway the visitor map closed the year with pins right across the globe. The following are results from all of those visitors:

Locations
United Kingdom 54%
USA 21%
Europe (non UK) 14%
Australia 5%
Canada 1%
Other 5%

Browsers
IE7 59%
Firefox 3.0 19%
IE6 10%
Opera 3%
Chrome 2%
Other 7%

Resolution
1280 x 1024 45%
Unknown 32%
1024 x 768 11%
1600 x 1200 7%
1152 x 864 5%

Operating System
Windows XP 68%
Windows Vista 27%
Windows 2000 8%
Windows 98 1%
Unknown 6%