Is Safari really that popular these days?

[scaninnyc]

I had no idea...

# User Agent
11 Safari
3 Internet Explorer
2 PVPLAYER 04.07.00.01
1 iTunes
1 Firefox
1 PVPLAYER 04.07.00.01
1 CORE/6.506.4.1 OpenCORE/2.02 (Linux;Android 2.1-update1)

 

[RadioDaze]

For mac users, probably.

I have it on the PC though and it's slow as s***. Needless to say, I hardly use it.

 

[Astrak]

I had no idea...

# User Agent
11 Safari
3 Internet Explorer
2 PVPLAYER 04.07.00.01
1 iTunes
1 Firefox
1 PVPLAYER 04.07.00.01
1 CORE/6.506.4.1 OpenCORE/2.02 (Linux;Android 2.1-update1)

Yeah, I usually have Safari as the top browser using my feeds also. Which doesn't seem right, since it is the most unpopular browser out there.

 

[jhooten]

or iPhone

 

[sideshowbob]

not sure about iPhones, but I know iPods do not show up as Safari. I have found however that Chrome registers as Safari under the listeners statistics.

 

[bezking]

WebKit-based browsers (Safari, Chrome, etc, as well as iPhones) will show as Safari.

 

[Jay911]

Sorry for the old thread bump, but I noticed this yesterday when discussing my feed with a colleague. Both my BlackBerry running BBScanner, and his PC running Google Chrome, showed up as Safari. His iPhone 4 showed up as "iPhone (Native)". I got the weird one SherwoodPolice reported in another even older post, with a malformed ID with %20 symbols throughout.

My question is: WHY do these various applications which are not Safari browsers show up as the Safari browser? I would have thought - especially with the "Police%20Scanner" one, that each application would report its own name as its user agent.

 

[Astrak]

Safari definitely isn't as popular as the stats show, StatCounter Global Stats - Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Market Share IE still has the highest percentage of use while Safari is somewhere around 10%.

 

[PeterGV]

My question is: WHY do these various applications which are not Safari browsers show up as the Safari browser?

Because, as somebody already mentioned, they all use the same engine -- called "webKit."

I wouldn't be surprised if folks using iPads are showing up as Safari as well.

IIRC, even with the webKit based browsers, there IS a way to distinguish among the specific browser application. Many online statistics just aren't clever enough to do this.

Peter
K1PGV

 

[dogtowndrums]

I use the 5-0 Radio app for iPhone, and it shows up as Safari.

 

[Jay911]

Because, as somebody already mentioned, they all use the same engine -- called "webKit."

See, this is not as intuitively obvious as you (and others) might think. If all of them are using "webKit", that is most decidedly not a logical reason why "Safari" should show up on the website. If anything, I would expect "webKit" instead. In addition, considering that web browsers will report their own name all the way down to different build variants inside a minor version number, I would have expected that streaming audio clients would report their own program names and not the name of the engine they are using or something else (like a completely different client's name).