Pageviews by Browsers ~ What does ";" mean?

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   Pageviews by Browsers
   
   Entry    Pageviews
   ; 53 (75%) ------------------------------
   Chrome 8 (11%)
   Firefox 5 (7%)
   Internet Explorer 2 (2%)
   Opera 1 (1%)
   Safari 1 (1%)
   
   So what does the ";" mean? As noted, there are 53 visits from it. Bot? Scraper? Worse? What?
   
   The associated operating system appears to be Windows
   
   Pageviews by Operating Systems
   
   Entry    Pageviews
   Windows 65 (92%) ------------------------
   Macintosh 3 (4%)
   Linux 1 (1%)
   iPhone 1 (1%)
   
   And here is what is probably the final nail in the coffin:
   
   Entry    Pageviews
   China 57 -----------------------
   United States 9
   
   Note: These stats do not come from any HP associated page.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   I'm beginning to think it is a ping terminator? But what would be the point of whoever is doing that? And for doing it 53 times?

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   OK, I'm pretty sure those 53 whatever's are hitting a different page on the site each occurrence.
   
   A benign thought. Baidu SE? But in that case, what's with the OS being Windows?

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   Bump.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   No clues found in various non-HP tech forums yet... Google general search also useless.

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   ketageposted 11 years ago

   It just means what browser they used to look at your hub, for example if i looked at one of your hubs with firefox and at another with my ipad , it will show once with firefox and once with safari.
   It doesn't actually make a difference to us writers, of more importance is the part that tells us where our pageviews came from, google , bing , hubpages etc. As that will give us an idea of which market is more interested in our articles.

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      paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Agreed. However, ";" appears to mean that the site-page was accessed with a non-browser. But yet, still accessed. So, the question is: accessed by what?

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   SimeyCposted 11 years ago

   Aha - it's Apple's new i-Watch - perhaps someone in China (where they usually make Apple stuff) was testing the i-Watch!!!!!

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      paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      
      
      This curious access has been going on for quite awhile. And it keeps claiming "Windows", but ";" instead of IE or whatever.

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         SimeyCposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Don't tell me Apple are now using the Windows OS - no wonder their stock is dropping so quickly!!!

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            paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            I have concluded that life has ended as we know it. But I still want to know what ";" means in the browser category.

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   And I'll keep hammering this until through Wednesday I guess. Do want answer.

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   psycheskinnerposted 10 years ago

   Statistically speaking it is most of the remainder.  Thus probably visits where the browser used could not be identified.

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I may have to decide to puzzle about you.
      
      Question still remains. What does ";" mean?

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         psycheskinnerposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         It is the arbitrary signifier for "no browser identified"--probably not even deliberate in nature but an accident of code.

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            paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            A came across something about PHP that substantiates that. Just wish they weren't from China....

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