I used to provide yearly stats on this site that showed Browsers, Operating System and Screen Resolution. Somewhere along the way, about 2006, I lost interest or got too busy to publish them. Over the last year or so I have noticed a big increase in Mac usage, every man and his dog has one, or so it seems. So I had a quick look at the stats for last month and compared it with the old stats. In 2006 mac users accounted for just 2.1% of visitors.

I finally got round to rolling over my Web Stats for the new year, only 2 months late. In the process I updated the Visitor Sniffer to include my favorite browser Mozilla Firefox.

The webstats page has been updated again, screen resolution has been added. Looks like I had better update my site as there are some high resolution screens coming this way. The resolution stats are collected via javascript then passed to php via a hidden form. Stats are only collected the first visit to the site and only if you visit another page. One thing I found interesting is the low number of 800 * 600 screens, they used to be the most popular by far.

The year is flying by we are at the end of January already. I have just updated the webstats page reset everything to zero and added table which show a comparison between operating systems and browsers for 2001 and 2002.

The PHP MySQL Table Manager was very popular over the last year, its had over 6000 downloads. Thanks to all the people who have suggested features etc.

For the New Year I've reset the stats on the web stats page. This should provide more accurate stats of visitors such as browsers and platform when new visitors arrive. One thing I will find interesting is the number of XP users compared to other platforms. Since XP was introduced late last year the other platforms had a couple of months advantage in the stats area.