Re: UKNM: plug-in take up/stats

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Sajid Mohammed wrote:

> 

> This whole debate has made me laugh, quite simply because the

> methodology behind the survey is dubious. Today, the Hitbox community

> boasted 49,398,296 visitors over 290,497 sites - making a visitors per

> site average of 170. Woo-hoo!

> 

> The top rating site in the network is the Drudge Report 292,556

> vistors. The next one along (Galore) boasts 82,570 - a real drop off.

> 

> What I am getting to is this - none of this fills me with confidence

> that taking a sample from sites that have an average audience of 170

> per day each is statistically significant.

> 

> Now, if Nielsen NetRatings or similar were to survey *their* top ten

> and  get stats from Yahoo, MSN, Blue Mountain Arts and so forth...

> 

> Stefan> Starting off from a personal prejudice about Flash and then

> bandying about some ill-distinguised research to support your own

> argument seems to be highly unscientific. Look at the poor bloke who


as I immediately admitted. But hey, it sure livened things up in here a

bit didn't it ;)


stefan


> 

> The worst thing you can say about Flash (quite apart from the fact

> that it screws up slow machines) is that it is antithetical(?) to the

> original vision of the Internet and the Web: it's proprietary, is not

> supported on a wide variety of platforms (does Flash run on CE? BSD?

> OS/9?) and it's impossible to index using a robot.


as I keep pointing out to people with flash sites who complain about

their search engine ratings. 


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