Opera/FreeBSD and Oper/OpenSolaris not always recognised.

[Steve_Barker]

I mainly use Opera with FreeBSD:

Opera/9.80 (X11; FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE i386; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01

StatCounter does not always recognise this combination:

Using the above I view:

iloveforest.blogspot.com
and
chinaimpressions.blogspot.com

The respective results are:

86.53.56.223 Opera 9.80 FreeBSD 1024x768 0 5
86.53.56.223 Default Browser 0 unknown 1024x768 0 3

How can the same browser/OS setup produce differing results?

PS Opera/OpenSolaris also has this problem too.

[Steve_Barker]

Re-visit with Opera on OpenSolaris:

Opera/9.80 (X11; SunOS i86pc; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10

iloveforest.blogspot.com/ = 19 Dec 22:10:43 Opera 9.80 PPC 1152x864

and

chinaimpressions.blogspot.com/ = 19 Dec 22:10:59 Default Browser 0 unknown 1152x864

PPC should be OpenSolaris, not PPC ; but thats better than Default Browser 0 on an unknown OS.

[webado]

The frist site is using an older Statcounter tracking project, whiel the second site has the newer one (called SC4).

Some of the scripts used to resolve Browsers and OS information from user agent strings must be a bit different. I'd suppose the one used for SC4 is more up to date, maybe a bit more accurate (if that's at all possible with that unstructured mish-mash that is the user-agent string).

Also the geo-databases used by the two project types are different - neither is necessarily better than the other, just different sources. They are all out of sync with reality to some small extent. Thus you would see some variations at times, occasionally quite striking.