Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Only happened in the last few days too. Weird.

Continuing with the navel-gazing theme, some points I noted in my stats:

• Opera and Safari now amount to 7-10% of my total unique visits
• Since its release last month, Firefox 3 has about the same share as IE7, which was released over a year and a half ago (20% total)
• IE has lost roughly 5% of total share on my site since I’ve started recording these statistics (this is my third year)
• IE6 is still the browser version with the largest single share (roughly 30%). Give Firefox 3 a few more months though…
• Virtually no one is using IE8 Beta 1, released over four months ago. I mean, way more people are using Firefox 3.1 pre-Alpha-1! I see at most one or two hits a week from IE8. Which makes sense because you can’t install multiple copies of IE and there aren’t very many cool things you can do with IE anyway.