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With Statmarket now charging for their services, Robert Utley took it upon himself to put together this collection of services that compile browser stats. originally posted to the CHI-WEB list.

Statistics Sites

WebSnapShot *****

http://websnapshot.mycomputer.com/ Closest to StatMarket - covers similar ground with similar methodology ("millions of visitors to tens of thousands of web sites"), gives graphical presentations of results, even has Stat of The Week.

(e.g. "Finding Methods: current statistics for the most popular ways in which web sites are accessed:

 

The Counter *****

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

Website Counter software firm giving monthly "global statistics" in the StatMarket areas and deriving its figures with essentially the same methodology - summated findings of their statistic-software clients.

Browser News *****

http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/ Fine, fast, sceptical presentation of browser-oriented stats resource reporting from multiple sources.

(e.g. "Browser Stats This Week:
The Counter - IE5 45%, IE4 31%, NN4 19%, IE3 1.5% ...
Web Snapshot - IE5 54%, IE4 22%, NN4 11%, NN3 1.6% ...")

EchoEcho ***

http://www.echoecho.com/ Selection of at-a-glance stats quoted from a range of sources, covers very similar ground to StatMarket, albeit without the graphical presentation and interactivity.

(e.g. SCREENS
1: 56% : 800x600
2: 26% : 1024x768
3: 12% : 640x480
4: 02% : 1280x1024 ")

(All this *and* useful-looking tutorials, tools and documentation for the web-site builder)

Nua Internet Surveys ***

http://www.nua.ie

Trends material covers broad range of areas with useful reports, nicely categorised. News lead, of course, but archives searchable.

(e.g. "Although Internet users frequently complain about receiving unsolicited email advertisements, 14 percent of consumers in an Ernst & Young survey said they will actually go to a site listed in a spam email. While it is not clear whether it is out of anger or interest, users click on email advertisements 3 to 10 times more often than they click on banners. " )

Also have

NetFolder **

http://www.netfolder.com/XML/Browsers.htm "Poll of polls" graph of browser use compiled from free stats sites and a paid stat service for Feb 99 through to Dec 99. Don't know if this will be updated subsequently.

Cyber Atlas **

http://cyberatlas.internet.com Trends news covering similar ground to Nua altho' with less refined categorisation and less humility as to the accuracy of the numbers given. ( Found site to be very slow also - although may have caught it on a bad day)

(e.g. "Nearly 5 million African-American adults are online in the US, according to Cyber Dialogue, and research shows they are intensive music shoppers and seekers of online entertainment.")

ClickZ.com "eStatsmaster" *

http://gt.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/em/es/index.html?article=1268 Marketing-focussed weekly column wherein the "Statmaster" sifts through the weekly stats and "serves up in his easily digestible piece"

(e.g. "IDC sees strong growth in internet services in Latin America in the coming years. From a modest $1.1 billion in 1998, followed by a 22% increase last year, services will generate $8.1 billion in revenue in 2004: ")

Inktomi *

http://www.inktomi.com/webmap/ Presents selected statistics from their Web crawling operations (e.g.:

Web server market share:

Cognitiative *

http://www.cognitiative.com/ Gives report précis of consumer research undertaken by the company. Summary *doesn't* include how survey enacted or number of respondents so difficult to judge what confidence to have in the reported statistics. Can buy full report

(e.g."(M)ore than 90% of the survey's consumers indicate that their online holiday shopping experiences met or exceeded their expectations and 80% expect their online shopping activities to increase this year."

WebTrends

http://www.webtrends.com Recommended but couldn't find any internet-wide statistics on site and the site searches didn't seem to be functioning.

 

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