Re: Internet Explorer usage reports?

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > Dear webmasters and system administrators, > > Back on January 12, 2016 Microsoft quit providing security updates for > IE 8, 9 and 10. Since then their usage has been declining. According > to some websites IE 8 still has about a 5% global marketshare with IE > 9 and 10 having about a 3% each. This means that dropping support for > them on PHP.net would theoretically inconvenience about 11% of our > visitors. > > Which is why I am writing this email: do our mirrors track user-agent > strings? I'd like to get a better idea about our browser usage since > February instead of relying on various third-party sites.. If this > data is tracked is there a way to get the aggregate data? I tried > visiting /stats/ on various mirrors and didn't seem to find any that > have set up stats, so maybe this is a dead-end. Not really. We don't required maintainers to provide stats, and though a few have voluntarily done so over the years, it wouldn't give you a good dataset because it would reflect just a few geographical regions in the sample, not spread out as a whole. However, if you search for a few different common strings, you can find statistics on a ton of sites that are publicly-accessible. And you may have better luck with an engine like Duck Duck Go in cases like that, as opposed to the Big Guys.