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6 week IDNwiki report – user statistics

26 November 2007
By Tina Dam

The IDNwiki was released at 4.10am PDT 15 October 2007 (UTC – 7hours). Now, 6 weeks later, here are some updated user statistics and related information. As mentioned previously we will also provide a report that focuses on the initial results with the evaluation of fully localized domain names, as the wiki has been set up for.

Page Requests and Users:

The total page requests served are: 253.800

Divided among the language/script pages these divide as follows:

Script

Language

%-share

Chinese Chinese 40.76
IDN Main gateway http://idn.icann.org 14.78
Cyrillic Russian 13.56
Arabic Arabic 12.55
Hebrew Yiddish 4.38
Arabic Persian 3.64
Hangul Korean 3.38
Greek Greek 1.84
Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana Japanese 1.77
Devanagari Hindi 1.69
Tamil Tamil 1.65

Browser vendors:

Several browser developers have provided information on the IDNwikis about how to use IDNs in their browser. If you have visted the IDNwiki (http://idn.icann.org) and carried out evaluations but not received the result you anticipated it could be because you need to make some local user configuration changes. The information provided by the browser developers will help you do so.

The top 10 browser vendors used by the wiki visitors:

page requests

browser

94441 Netscape (compatible)
35423 Yeti
34304 MSIE
20562 Firefox
7747 msnbot
4807 HMSE_Robot
3383 Opera
3348 Apache
2181 Baiduspider+(+http:
951 Mozilla

Taking a closer look the browser choices of the IDNwiki visitors divide as follows:

Hebrew/Yiddish

page requests

browser

3760 MSIE
2315 Firefox
1762 Netscape (compatible)
790 Yeti
555 msnbot
92 Gigabot
59 Opera
44 Safari
42 Mozilla
29 ichiro

Traditional and Simplified Chinese/Chinese

page requests

browser

77699 Netscape (compatible)
11327 MSIE
5739 Firefox
1928 Baiduspider+(+http:
1768 Yeti
1137 msnbot
679 Opera
245 Mozilla
138 ShopWiki
122 Safari

Tamil/Tamil

page requests

browser

1717 Netscape (compatible)
448 MSIE
428 Firefox
340 Yeti
240 msnbot
66 Gigabot
40 Opera
39 GurujiBot
27 HMSE_Robot
17 JetSetter

Cyrillic/Russian

page requests

browser

3934 Firefox
3001 MSIE
1946 Opera
1624 Netscape (compatible)
1417 Yeti
968 msnbot
463 Feedfetcher-Google; (+http:
189 Mozilla
128 Gigabot
120 Snapbot

Arabic/Persian

page requests

browser

2563 MSIE
1852 Firefox
1699 Netscape (compatible)
1005 Yeti
277 msnbot
155 Opera
69 Mozilla
59 Gigabot
38 Safari
18 JetSetter

Hangul/Korean

page requests

browser

4569 HMSE_Robot
1499 Netscape (compatible)
531 msnbot
337 MSIE
293 Firefox
236 Yeti
43 Gigabot
34 Safari
25 Opera
17 JetSetter

Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana /Japanese

page requests

browser

1400 Netscape (compatible)
749 MSIE
415 Firefox
286 msnbot
92 Baiduspider+(+http:
64 Safari
41 Gigabot
29 Mozilla
29 Opera
24 Konqueror

Devanagari/Hindi

page requests

browser

1127 Netscape (compatible)
776 msnbot
344 MSIE
330 Firefox
267 Yeti
210 HMSE_Robot
50 Gigabot
28 Mozilla
21 Opera
17 JetSetter

Main Gateway/http://idn.icann.org

page requests

browser

10019 MSIE
5013 Yeti
3792 Firefox
3404 Netscape (compatible)
3348 Apache
2157 msnbot
337 Opera
324 Wget
305 Safari
304 JetSetter

Greek/Greek

page requests

browser

1001 Netscape (compatible)
997 Yeti
467 Firefox
363 MSIE
317 msnbot
45 Gigabot
44 Mozilla
32 Safari
23 Opera
16 JetSetter

Arabic/Arabic

page requests

browser

23542 Yeti
1501 Netscape (compatible)
1374 MSIE
954 Firefox
501 msnbot
68 Opera
56 Gigabot
53 Safari
39 Mozilla
17 JetSetter

Authors

Tina Dam