Tim Bray: ongoing · Aggregator Market Share (
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In reply to one of my Browser Market Share postings, Ian Brown wrote to point out that with an increasing portion of the traffic going through newsreaders, it might be interesting to do some breakdown on that. So I did.
Here’s my top ten:
3040 37.7% (unrecognized)
2996 37.2% Ocelli
759 9.4% msnbot
189 2.3% Firefox
168 2.1% Bloglines (1 subscribers)
140 1.7% ShopWiki
124 1.5% w3search
94 1.2% NetNewsWire
82 1.0% NewsGatorOnline
59 0.7% Opera
Not sure that tells me all that much (unrecognized as the top vote-getter is bad enough, and I have never heard of the next one either).
Ocelli is a Web crawler owned and operated by GlobalSpec®, the leading specialized search engine and information resource for the engineering community. Ocelli’s mission is to find and index web pages for The Engineering Websm from GlobalSpec, a unique slice of the World Wide Web focusing solely on engineering and technical content.
So I guess I have some relevant material here, but they promise (threaten?) that if they don’t find engineering-related content, the robot won’t return. As the wise man said of the Thermos, how does it know?
I guess they can tell if people link to the content they gather and use that for ranking/relevance.
Below the fold, the rest of the story for the day so far (I roll logs each night).
3040 37.7% (unrecognized)ongoing · Aggregator Market Share:
2996 37.2% Ocelli
759 9.4% msnbot
189 2.3% Firefox
168 2.1% Bloglines (1 subscribers)
140 1.7% ShopWiki
124 1.5% w3search
94 1.2% NetNewsWire
82 1.0% NewsGatorOnline
59 0.7% Opera
52 0.6% Googlebot
37 0.5% Mediapartners-Google
37 0.5% FeedDemon
33 0.4% RssReader
28 0.3% NewsGator
21 0.3% lmspider
16 0.2% NewzCrawler
15 0.2% PubSub.com RSS reader - http:
14 0.2% Syndic8
12 0.1% lwp-trivial
12 0.1% libwww-perl
12 0.1% fastbuzz
11 0.1% Rojo
9 0.1% UniversalFeedParser
7 0.1% BlogzIce
6 0.1% kinjabot (http:
6 0.1% Journster.com RSS
6 0.1% Java
6 0.1% Gigabot
4 0.0% POE-Component-Client-HTTP
4 0.0% NutchCVS
4 0.0% NIF
4 0.0% Jakarta Commons-HttpClient
4 0.0% BlogPulse
3 0.0% webcollage
3 0.0% Twisted
2 0.0% jyte_fetcher
2 0.0% ia_archiver
2 0.0% everyfeed-spider
2 0.0% YahooSeeker
2 0.0% YahooFeedSeeker
2 0.0% Sage
2 0.0% NewsFire
2 0.0% Linux
2 0.0% IEAutoDiscovery
2 0.0% FeedBurner
2 0.0% Feed24
1 0.0% ygl
1 0.0% xtuaovyoffbyewobfklk
1 0.0% t
1 0.0% sherlock
1 0.0% sggmeisaywiir9iblbpxgyipxvyy
1 0.0% lbtag6pvvfuxxenyHrkkda6p66ipaudvsk
1 0.0% j0boxsstxlsKfhmq
1 0.0% iln
1 0.0% http:
1 0.0% hpqwridqu
1 0.0% drvoamiwhKqggjhwd1mcglkxiqs
1 0.0% cygrevgdqgbulowgsgro
1 0.0% appie
1 0.0% QboQbmfuvl
In reply to one of my Browser Market Share postings, Ian Brown wrote to point out that with an increasing portion of the traffic going through newsreaders, it might be interesting to do some breakdown on that. So I did.
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1 0.0% Microsoft
1 0.0% Lynx (2.5-01
1 0.0% Lynx
1 0.0% JetBrains Omea Reader 1.0.3 (http:
1 0.0% Iridu-Crawler
1 0.0% Holmes
1 0.0% Feedster Crawler
1 0.0% Blogdigger
1 0.0% Avant Browser (http:
1 0.0% Ace
1 0.0%
0.0% Bloglines