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[Motd] MOTD 02/Dec/01ANN.lu
Posted on 02-Dec-2001 16:16 GMT by Christian Kemp15 comments
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In November, ann.lu served 674,488 successful requests, delivering about 290,000 pageviews to 38,617 distinct hosts. Compared to last month's all time high of pageviews, this is once again a 40% increase. Overall, 4.624 Gbytes of (compressed) data were transferred. 514,684 requests came from Windows-based browsers, only 70,912 from Amiga browsers (not considering spoofing). For the first time in quite a few months, I've also been able to fill both ad spots with advertisements. Now, if I could only find a way to make a few posters use more English, and less swearing, I would be completely happy with where ANN is going, even if I haven't been involved a lot lately, due to work and other commitments. So I guess this is yet another "thank you" to everybody who keeps ANN and its community going.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 1 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by hyppy on 02-Dec-2001 15:45 GMT
Hi!
Why did ann.lu fail to load for me in the last few days? Hope you get this fixed soon :) .. and keep up the good work !!
Greety, hyppy
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 2 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 02-Dec-2001 16:17 GMT
YEs Kris we are all bad at that-sometimes we just get a bit carried away.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 3 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by smithy on 02-Dec-2001 16:19 GMT
Congratulations Christian, I am pleased for you that ANN is going from strength to strength :)
What I find interesting is the browser figures - it equates to 88% using a Windows browser, but just 12% using an Amiga browser.
Who keeps saying that when Amiga users buy PCs they lose all interest in the Amiga side of things? This clearly isn't the case - it shows that AmigaOS fans who own PCs haven't lost interest in keeping up to date with Amiga stuff.
Perhaps some of the 88% may account for people browsing from work or university, but I don't think that would swing that figure as high as it is.
The simple facts are, that the majority of AmigaOS fans use PCs.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 4 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 02-Dec-2001 16:37 GMT
http://www.amiga.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Stats&file=index
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 5 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by priest on 02-Dec-2001 17:04 GMT
Not bad for a "dead" platform. ;)
Internet could not handle it if Amiga was "alive".
(15 years and still kick'n)
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 6 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Mekanix on 02-Dec-2001 17:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
Hmm... Wonder what Ben Hermanns explanation to these obvious bogus numbers would be? ;)
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 7 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Robin Cloutman on 02-Dec-2001 18:27 GMT
Well, I'm on a windows browser (IE6), but I'm still on the net with my amiga - the pc is just on a LAN with the miggy as gateway. And browsing the web is the only net service the pc does, irc, mud, icq, email, news, etc are all on the miggy... sadly it's just not up to browsing as many sites as IE yet... maybe I should find a gfx card for my miggy soon ;-)
Robin
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 8 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 02-Dec-2001 19:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Robin Cloutman):
The figures for which browser is used are meaningless, because anyone
using an Amiga browser is obliged to spoof as IE all the time, or get
locked out of a large proportion of sites.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 9 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 02-Dec-2001 19:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Robin Cloutman):
"maybe I should find a gfx
card for my miggy soon ;-) "
You absolutely should, it makes an enormous difference to the Amiga,
especially for web browsing.
And get a big monitor to go with it.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 10 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Mekanix on 02-Dec-2001 19:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Don Cox):
hmm.. I've only set up Konqueror to spoof as IE on 3 sites. Rest of them I have no issues with apart from poor HTML.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 11 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by twiceaday on 02-Dec-2001 23:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (smithy):
yeah man you are right, me for example i'm using a PC because there is no comparison between amiga and pc to surf the net, but i keep an eye on the amiga scene ready to jump back in as soon as there is a valid alternative to that archeological amiga and this pain in the a*s PC.
publish amigaOS for pegasus and i'll be there!
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 12 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by StAn on 02-Dec-2001 23:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (smithy):
> Perhaps some of the 88% may account for people browsing
> from work or university, but I don't think that would
> swing that figure as high as it is.
I think it could :)
Christian would need to make stats according to the (distant) time of the requests and day of week, and take into acount spoofing (I think most of the time it is possible to find out the real browser)... to confirm or deny this.
Not that I care so much. Only that I haven't got a PC and I'm fed up of people stating that 99.9% of Amiga users have got a PC too.
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 13 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Richard on 03-Dec-2001 06:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (smithy):
I can only tell about how it is for me. Everyday I check ANN in the morning from my work. I don´t own an Amiga anymore (unfortunately) but follow with great interest everything that happens and hope I someday will be able to install a full, new operating system. I am not talking about OS 4 since it is not for X86. I am waiting for OS 5 and have waited for that new OS (or somehting similar) since spring 1998 when Gateway first announced their plans (before Jim Collas!).
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 14 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Treke on 03-Dec-2001 07:40 GMT
Keep up with the good work, Christian !
re
Treke
MOTD 02/Dec/01 : Comment 15 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by DarkHawke on 04-Dec-2001 08:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (smithy):
"What I find interesting is the browser figures - it equates to 88% using a Windows browser, but just 12% using an Amiga browser.
"Who keeps saying that when Amiga users buy PCs they lose all interest in the Amiga side of things? This clearly isn't the case - it shows that AmigaOS fans who own PCs haven't lost interest in keeping up to date with Amiga stuff."
[snip!]
"The simple facts are, that the majority of AmigaOS fans use PCs."
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