What's Your Browser's Age?
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What's Your Browser's Age?
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browserage.com#browser age#browser version#user agent#referrer stats#hacker news
How HN took it
1 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 24 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score -0.49.
Execution: 1 for, 23 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat idea
From 1 comment
ok, neat... but what does the "age of my browser" mean?
jazzychad on HN
Objections
Reported browser ages are often wrong, e.g. Firefox Nightly and Chrome versions
From 4 comments
Yep, it's not very smart yet. There's a small json dict of firefox releases that it's referencing (https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-firefox.json). I…
rwitoff on HNHeh, I'm on Chrome 23, and it also says 6 days old. Seems not quite accurate, esp since I built it 13 days ago. Looks like age data for Chrome only goes to version 21:…
kelnos on HNHmm, might be tough - I'm not sure quite how Nightly releases work, but I updated an hour ago and the version changed from 18.0a1 (old date, a few days ago I think) to 18.0a1…
corin_ on HNFirefox Aurora "17.0a2 (2012-09-30)". Updated roughly 10 minutes ago, yet it says 25 days.
tvdw on HN
OS and referrer stats look implausible, Linux missing
From 3 comments
80% of HN is using Chrome? That is unexpected. I'd figure if Firefox would be popular anywhere, it would be here where I would imagine most people run the aurora builds (at…
zanny on HNThe OS field seems to be lying. It conveniently adds up to 100% but only has entries for windows, osx, and ios. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm sure there's a lot of other…
jey on HNRight now for me the referrer averages for facebook.com say 43% safari - but only 24% OS X? Sounds improbable.
michaelt on HN
Unclear what browser age means
From 3 comments
ok, neat... but what does the "age of my browser" mean?
jazzychad on HNMy first question was "what does browser age mean?". I think you should just put the explanation on the page itself.
tmchow on HN0 days old? What does this mean anyway?
SCdF on HN
Broken on some browsers such as IE9 and Opera, showing 0 or 580 days
From 3 comments
I tried on Chrome and got 6 days old. I then tried it on IE9 just out of curiosity, and got 579 days old. Also, the site doesn't seem to render or work correctly on IE9. The…
andywhite37 on HNOpera 12.02: Reports 0 days old, while it really is 28 days old.
lordlarm on HN580 days on my corporate default browser (IE9) - 2192 days if I switch to "compatibility view" - and I am unable to expand the stats on either. On Chrome, 7 days ago. Yay.
klausjensen on HN
Requests
Explain on the page what browser age means
From 1 comment
My first question was "what does browser age mean?". I think you should just put the explanation on the page itself.
tmchow on HN
Update release data for Firefox and Chrome
From 2 comments
Yep, it's not very smart yet. There's a small json dict of firefox releases that it's referencing (https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-firefox.json). I…
rwitoff on HNHeh, I'm on Chrome 23, and it also says 6 days old. Seems not quite accurate, esp since I built it 13 days ago. Looks like age data for Chrome only goes to version 21:…
kelnos on HN
Questions
Where does the referrer data come from?
From 2 comments
Where did this site get the data from? EDIT: Especially, how did he get Facebook's or Google's stats?
nilsbunger on HNThose are the referrers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Jyaif on HN
Why does Opera show 0 days?
From 2 comments
this. plus, mine is 0 days old (Opera 12.02, released more than a month ago I think) . How come?
stinos on HNLooks like browser versions newer than newest version they have in the data files get 0 days. https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge/blob/master/data/age-msie.json doesn't have…
jarek on HN
Alternatives named
Dan Grossman's Hacker News browser analysis
From 1 comment
My own analysis of 21,000 HN visits a month ago had Chrome usage at 63% and 10% on Linux. http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-users-use/
dangrossman on HN