I am seeing surprising numbers in my Visitors > Statistics > Plug-ins data. The number of visitors whose browsers support cookies is typically about twice the number of visitor whose browsers support Flash. Has there been a major revolt against Flash that I don’t know about, or is it that Piwik only reports the most recent version of Flash?
I don’t think it’s an iPhone/iPad issue. While we do get a significant number of iPhone visitors, it’s still “only” about 4 to 5% of our site traffic. (www.sfmta.com serves San Francisco, so we tend to be ahead of the hardware curve)
[quote=Thomas Seifert @ Jun 8 2010, 09:49 AM]Yeah, I would also appreciate plugin detection on IE.
I wonder how other tracking tools are doing it if it causes that much trouble with IE.[/quote]
There must be a solution without any promt.
I have one small page tracked and I got already 45% of my visits with IE in 2010.
I’ve already spent an inordinate amount of time researching this to come up with a workaround. Plugin detection on IE relied on instantiating the add-on’s ActiveXObject. On earlier versions of Windows+IE and when the add-on is up-to-date, this was fine. Problems start occurring when there are (or have been) multiple versions of an add-on, the add-on phones home to check for updates, or visitors are using a newer version of Windows and/or IE with “enhanced” security…
Ultimately, the decision was made to no longer detect plugins on IE because of the pop-ups that could appear: e.g., Reader opening a blank window, prompts to upgrade an add-on (e.g., Quicktime, Flash, Real player), or security alerts.
If IE is not going to be included, it would be good for that particular statistic, and any other such statistic to have an asterisk, with a “*-excludes IE” footnote.