New reports: Browser and Operating system market shares

[matt]

Currently Piwik reports

• Browser family, Gecko VS Webkit VS IE vs Opera: useful for web developers since the engine impact the way pages are rendered
• Browser versions: FF 8, IE 7, etc. Useful to know exactly what browsers are used

It would be nice to also provide Browser marketshare: FF Vs IE Vs Opera Vs Chrome Vs Safari Vs others.

• This would be useful to answer the general geek question "Who is winning?"
  • It might be a bit too much to yet another report about browsers in Visitors > Settings report already a bit crowded.
  • Maybe The User Interface could be a button to access the other report, in a footer message for example "Switch to Browser Marketshare report" / "Switch to Browser versions report"
  • The report would be aggregated from the Browser versions datatable and in fact will be a "View" of this other report. It will not require a new archiving process. The API will call std API and extract browser name and re-aggregates.

This would be IMO a very useful new Piwik report and would not clutter the UI.

This ticket also includes similar work for Operating System Marketshare

• By default, show Windows XP VS Mac OS X VS Windows 7 VS Android
• An icon or link allows to display Windows VS Mac VS Linux
• the new API is simply a view aggregating the existing API
• there can be new integration tests for the 2 new API functions

[matt]

We could similarly provide the OS Market share report: Windows VS Mac VS Linux VS Blackberry.

I think that this could be done by simply "aggregating" All windows version together?

Once we do this, it could be relevant to provide breakdown of Mac OS X versions, similarly to the breakdown of Windows versions?

[macitbetter]

The patch above splits Mac OS X into its various major versions.

[matt]

It would be nice to do this early rather than later.

It's kind of annoying to see Chome 16 topping the reports just because their updater virus automatically updates everyone ;)

PS: I call the googleupdater.exe virus because I cant get rid of it on my computer, even deleting the scheduled updating task, it's then automatically re-created...

[capedfuzz]

Patch for this issue.

[capedfuzz]

I've attached a patch for this issue. It adds a two new reports. Notes:

• This patch includes the GroupBy filter from my patch in #3004 and the related reports code from #3137.
  
• I only added one new report for operating systems: getOSFamily. The possible families are in UserAgentParser.php.
  
• For the browser report, I modified the existing one to be getBrowserVersion and then added getBrowser. So the browser version report is no longer displayed by default.
  
• For the browser report's metadata, I modified the existing metadata entry. There was a comment that said it was only used to define a segment. I'm not sure if modifying this was the correct path, though.
  

[capedfuzz]

Patch for this issue and issue #3133.

[capedfuzz]

I uploaded an updated patch for this issue. This patch has another report, getDeviceType, which is meant to solve #3133. The report differentiates between desktop OSes, mobile OSes and gaming consoles. The report is set as a related report for the Operating Systems section (not sure where else to put it).

Let me know what you think.