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[–] 96 points 1 month ago (15 children)

60% is suspiciously low. Most companies use Windows, what is your source?

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  • [–] 78 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Last time this was posted it came down to many bots run on Linux. Thus if near 60% of all internet traffic is bots. These numbers show nearly nothing of value when it comes to figure out what humans are using anymore.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The truth is that the data isn't transparent enough, and we have no idea about the causes. Everything is mere speculation

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wish more people would say things like this

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well, the fact of the matter is that the information provided isn't clear enough with its sources, so we must have doubts about the reasons. All of it is simply throwing shit at the wall to see what will stick.

    (If you hadn't said "like this", I would have copypasted it… ;-) )

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    This chart is for desktops, I imagine most bots aren't running on desktops, right? So if it's counting bots the methodology is wrong.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They use desktop user agents if they don’t identify themselves with a known bot tag

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  • Yeah, most bots purpose is to spoof what machine and browser they are using for access. So while the many bots are supposed to be spoofing Windows and such, who knows what percentages are getting detected as not. We don't have the data

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Last time this, or something like this, was posted it was because fewer and fewer people are using PCs at home. They just have a smartphone or tablet and that's it.

    In that case they're not using windows they're using MacOS or Android.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Every time someone brings this, but that same statcounter site show desktop vs mobile somewhat stabilizing a few years ago, so that's not a plausible explanation for current trends. Also, we they're not transparent about their methods or anything, so we can't really know

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    It’s because of the recent explosion in bot traffic. Bots are largely run on Linux, using basic desktop user agents. So when studies like this look at desktop traffic, they see a disproportionately high number of Linux desktop users. But in reality, the vast majority of those “users” are actually just bad bots and scrapers who aren’t properly flagging themselves as bots (because they know sites will block them for scraping content).

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)