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TRON

I'll say at end of month that the word is desktop-minority

I'll qualify; e.g. minority on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (and even one Thursday; 20. Oct.), but not [other] weekdays.[1] Also depends on regions. Add to the lead? comp.arch (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Added as a pie graph --Ne0 (talk) 05:41, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone notice the fall of Firefox along with Internet Explorer ? ...and the rise of Safari along with Google Chrome ? [2]
Note that, Firefox & IE are mostly used on desktop, while Safari & Google Chrome are also used on smartphones ! Fall of the desktop OS, along with it's exclusive browsers, loud & clear ! --Ne0 (talk) 10:12, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

W3Counter 2015-02 data do not match those within table

Most (if not all) of the numbers on https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2015&month=02 differ from those in the table (web clients). Like 7.36% instead of 7.46% for XP, 2.44% instead of 2.56% for Linux,, 39.28% instead of 39.85% for Win7 etc etc.

Is this a transcription error or has the data on w3counter changed? --2.246.134.14 (talk) 19:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

EDIT: Yes it changed in the source see its archive. Former theories: I'm not sure why, this is not info from the month before, or after (or year later); it was pout in in this edit so it's not in the middle of the month. Another of my guess, beware of doing that, as numbers change until month is over (at least at StatCounter; some may not show incomplete). comp.arch (talk) 16:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
On StatCounter, data for the last day of the month is updated around 36 hours into the next month. So updating monthly stats after the 2nd of following month should be safe. Also, data mismatch can occur when User Agents are re-identified as belonging to another Operating System, and existing graphs are updated to reflect this. I believe this is what happened in this W3Counter case. --Ne0 (talk) 08:03, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Updated W3Counter line with December 2016 stats --Ne0 (talk) 05:52, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note that the median (if it is a median?) on the top of the table has not been updated. -- 2001:8A0:6D12:6900:84A2:D66B:81AB:C32B (talk) 18:30, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Stats on top of the Web clients table is the total web usage by Operating System kernels(NT, XNU, Linux), as determined by StatCounter. I last updated it, when I added StatCounter stats for Dec 2016. --Ne0 (talk) 07:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the Fedora bar larger than Mint?

...under the Linux section of Desktop share. The Fedora bar appears to take up more space than Mint, even though Fedora has 1.4% market share, and Mint has 1.7%. From what I understand, the sizes of those bars are proportional to their percentages, and are automatically calculated based on them. If this is true, is this a bug?


Flawed statistics

Majority of statistics are from Statcounter.com this site only counts OS by web usage. There are probably (tens/hundreds?) millions of computer OS's that never connect to the internet that are excluded by this analysis. So any statement of global OS use based on this sites statistics is flawed and unreliable. No source that doesn't account for the worlds entire installed computer base (as opposed to those that are being used to access the internet) should be used as a reference for this article.

As it stands the title of the article should be ammended to read "Usage share of operating systems used to browse the internet"

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