Re: LYNX-DEV interesting note regarding lynx usage

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> Hi.  I really have made an effort to convince the graphic artists and
> web page writers here to keep lynx in mind.  In return, I requested a week
> or two ago a breakdown of how many and what percentage of lynx users were
> are seeing.
> 
> Over the course of a 3-week period (9/24 - 10/13), 208 clients accessed
> www.cas.org with a lynx client. This is just over 1% of the total. A 
> rough lynx breakdown follows. 

In order to be truly fair about the percentage, you should not count
images loaded by other clients as accesses.  A page with 4 inline graphics
will appear in the logs as 5 seperate accesses while Lynx would only show
up as 1 for the same page.

>        1 Lynx doo.daa.doo.daa.buss.stop.here

ARGH!  There's that crazy thing again.  Does anyone have access to logs
that would cross-reference this to the access log? :)

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