UltraStats – Essential Website Statistics

UltraStats Website Statistics

Advantages of UltraStats Website Statistics

The browser statistics that most matter to you are the ones relating directly to your website. That is what our UltraStats service provides: actual browser statistics collated for your website.



Which browser statistics does UltraStats collect?

UltraStats' browser statistics provide a quantitative analysis of the actual internet browsers, operating systems and screen sizes favoured by the visitors to your site. In addition, as a signed-up member you can view how many visitors you have had each day, each month, each year, and when the least/most popular time for viewing the website is.

The charts on the left hand side of this screen provide the browser statistics for this UltraStats website. You can logon to the members' area as a guest to view more detailed results of this website the following guest logon details:

username: guest@ultrastats.co.uk
password: guest

How can these browser statistics help my website?

Do you know how your website looks to your customers? Did you check different browsers yourself; did you ask the developers which browsers and platforms they checked the site on? A visitor's choice of browser, platform and screen size will determine how your website appears on their screen. It is advantageous to know whether your website is supporting the most popular user choices and therefore whether your website works well for them. Additionally, why pay extra (or compromise a good design) to make the website look good for IE5 at 800x600 if hardly anyone uses it?

That's why browser statistics matter: they tell you which tools users are accessing your website through. This can help you to optimise the design of your website so that it works well for the majority of people using it.


But aren't browser statistics available elsewhere?

You can get browser statistics on-line already, but most are based on global averages. Here are some of the reasons why these may not be relevant to your website:

  • Different websites attract different audiences with varying browser knowledge: general statistics quoted may not represent the type of audience your website attracts.
  • Some statistical source sites collect data from samples, which may skew the averages reported: collecting data from one geographic region or one type of institution.
  • Different sources quote different averages for the same browsers!

It makes sense that meaningful statistics for your website can help to improve your visitors' experience and the benefits to your business that this will bring.

UltraStats - optimising your website

The advantages of knowing which tools (browser, platform and screen size) your web audience uses include:

  • The statistics will show the browser being used by enough users to justify supporting it.
  • Your website can therefore be designed or modified to work best for the most popular browser used by your web audience, while being finely tuned to work well for other browsers.
  • These statistics will make you aware of changing trends in your web audience. For example, several sources cite web access via mobile devices as a small but fast growing audience. Monitoring this trend could determine whether your website needs to be updated to support this audience in the future.



How are the results collected?

The results come from users who visit the web pages of UltraStats' members. The web pages that are being analysed have an UltraStats logo and a text link to the UltraStats website engine, this is how the information is collected. Members can then view their own statistics and the sum of all the websites which take advantage of the UltraStats service.

How do I sign up?

There are two ways of obtaining this service:

  1. The UltraStats service is part of the service offered by Bulbecks Ltd and is available free of charge for all websites created by Bulbecks Ltd.
  2. If you have an existing website that was not created by Bulbecks Ltd then the UltraStats service is available for a £5 p.m. + VAT


Definitions

Internet Browser

A software application that translates the content of a web page (ie: text and references to images held in the original script) into a readable format for the web viewer. Popular choices include IE7 and IE6, Firefox and Opera.

Operating systems

The operating system provides a base or ‘platform' from which other software applications can operate. Popular choices for those who surf the web include various versions of Windows (e.g. XP, Vista), Mac and a large array of Linux distributions.

Screen sizes

This is another way of describing the resolution of a display screen, (of a computer in this context). The resolution measurement relates to the fixed number of columns and rows of pixels (picture elements) on the screen.

Overall Statistics

Browser Statistics
IE 7.0 42.3% 42.3%
IE 6.0 38.0% 38.0%
Firefox 12.8% 12.8%
Safari 2.3% 2.3%
Mozilla 1.7% 1.7%
Unknown 0.9% 0.9%
Netscape 0.8% 0.8%
Opera 0.7% 0.7%
Other 0.2% 0.2%
IE 5.0 0.1% 0.1%
IE 5.5 0.1% 0.1%
Screen Sizes
1024 x 768 35.5% 35.5%
Unknown 23.9% 23.9%
1280 x 800 12.1% 12.1%
1280 x 1024 10.3% 10.3%
800 x 600 6.5% 6.5%
1440 x 900 3.2% 3.2%
1152 x 864 2.6% 2.6%
1680 x 1050 1.7% 1.7%
1280 x 768 0.9% 0.9%
Other 0.8% 0.8%
1920 x 1200 0.6% 0.6%
1600 x 1200 0.5% 0.5%
1280 x 960 0.5% 0.5%
1400 x 1050 0.4% 0.4%
1280 x 720 0.2% 0.2%
1024 x 1280 0.2% 0.2%
1300 x 1300 0.1% 0.1%
Platform
WinXP 73.9% 73.9%
WinVista 15.3% 15.3%
Unknown 4.9% 4.9%
Win2000 3.4% 3.4%
MacPPC 1.3% 1.3%
UNIX 0.7% 0.7%
Win98 0.6% 0.6%
Other 0.1% 0.1%

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