Hacking for Christ

VisitorVille

VisitorVille are a Web analysis company, with the unusual ability to break down their results by company - presumably, by checking the records of which IP addresses are allocated to which organisation. They gather their data from sites within "a network of thousands of web sites" - although which sites those are isn't immediately clear.

Although the results should be taken with a large pinch of salt, a great deal of fun can be had observing, for example, how large companies don't really eat their own dogfood.

For example:

• 66% of Microsoft employee searches are done using Google...
  
• ...and 30% of Yahoo! employees
  
• 0.7% of Microsoft employees use Firefox
  
• Either the detection isn't too good, or a lot of Apple employees use iCab, OmniWeb or Opera
  
• There's a small but enduring OS9 community at 1, Infinite Loop
  
• Sun uses more Windows than Solaris
  
• IBM is getting with the program; over 7% Firefox/Mozilla
  
• No-one at AOL whatsoever uses any version of Netscape
  

Fortunately, the Mozilla Foundation appears not to be in their database, so I can poke fun without potential embarrassment ;-)