simevidas,
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Re https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UScXNr6BE, can StatCounter’s numbers for Windows versions be trusted? Browsers on Windows 11 say in their User-Agent strings that they’re on Windows 10 (see https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2024/user-agent-reduction/), so where does StatCounter even get their Windows 11 percentages from?

html5test,
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@simevidas probably from the User-Agent Client Hints API, which is only supported on Chromium browsers. So the numbers are certainly underreported.

simevidas,
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@html5test Hm, I have my doubts that StatCounter’s script is able to accurately measure Client Hint values such as OS version that are not sent by default. What if the user visits a website and then immediately leaves? Is that enough time to get the OS version?

html5test,
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@simevidas I haven’t looked at their code, but it it is loading third-party JavaScript.

The Client Hints JavaScript API would work in that case. Basically the same thing as I do here to determine the Windows version:

https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2024/the-user-agent-client-hints-api/

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