If they're basing this off browser user agents like a third of my traffic at least is random Chinese ips and requests with Chinese language in the headers.

All of them would be flagged as unknown by the major user agent parsing libraries.

None of the sure I work with have any Chinese content or content remotely useful for Chinese people, so it's scrapers.

Can it be fingerprint spoofers skewing the results? In that case the data is worthless.

That's probably Linux too

I think it's pretty clear from this graph that the macOS is eating their lunch, and to a lesser extent, Linux.

Android?

Hmm… What’s eating Windows’ lunch? Oh “Unknown” and “Other”. Cool.

If the data is coming from statcounter, it's kind of vague where they're pulling it.

It's strange to see IOS and not Android, maybe because it's fractured into so many sources

It could also be anti ad/tracker stuff.

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.

Seeing macOS go down, it seems to me, new macOS is masking

Likely different handhelds making a statistical bump

That’s what I want to know too! Did Windows blip out of existence in the UK for a month or something?

the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in "other". So that peak is probably "windows but we messed up with data collection" or "some browser in windows changed its user agent".

Not only, since those stats actually are based on trackers and such, when you use something like uBlock Origin, pihole or anything that blocks trackers they will just list you as "unknown".

Scrappers are probably under "others"

They're in order in this highlighted column:

• Windows (at the top)
• OSX
• Unknown
• Linux
• Chrome
• IOS
• Other (dotted)

if you click in the source in der desc of the post, you can hover over the lines. thre it says which line referes to what

The order in which the operating systems are named in the bottom is their order on the complete right side of the graph. Most left (windows) is the top on the line graph. The next one OS X is the second from the top in the line graph, etc.

Unknown could be anything.

Thats not a bad thing.

I'm a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.

Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.

Yeah it seems like most of unknown is just windows since they spike and shrink together.

Teledildonics has been a promising technology for several years.

And yes, you CAN run Doom on it. But turns out it's not a great idea

Android?

I bet sex toys run on android and have a social network attached, these days..

Fun in the dark with an OS you've just met. Oh my, how saucy!

Probably since iPad gained a keyboard with mousepad?

Since they added free-form window management.

It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I'm assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.

Unknown though. Had more than osx at some points!

It's not even called OS X anymore, now it's called macOS.

iOS is actually based on macOS, although it's slimmed down a lot. iOS has been further split into iOS and iPadOS, although they're pretty much the same thing. It's just a marketing move.

Android.

It is, yes

iPad + Magic Keyboard. It’s my primary device. Pretty easy when you interact with virtually everything in a browser. Plus it gets ridiculous battery life and mine has cellular connectivity.

I do still have a Windows box for gaming, but I don’t browse the web with it; it just boots into Steam Big Picture mode.

How dare they collect data and display it in an accurate manner! They should just start by putting Linux at 50% and then move the lines a little bit.

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