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We are so much luckier than you!
written by Steven Bristol on June 18th, 2009
What is the most interesting statistic on this page and why?
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Mac is the most popular platform and IE is under 10%?
Okay, i guess that is 2 stats.
Personally I think the most interesting stat isn’t really that Safari/FF are killing IE usage but more that the Windows OS is at 40% but the majority of the Windows users aren’t using IE. I’m a little jealous now. Thanks for sharing.
I think the fact that with 40% of users running Windows the overall percentage of IE use is still less than 7.5% is very encouraging.
This is a tech site, right? Well, think about your audience…. Stats like these are never surprising on a non-major site about technology. I would guess that Opera.com’s stats show the Opera browser with a much higher percentage than compared to any other site.
@leslie
These are the blog stats. The stats are similar for our apps.
If you want to make us really jealous, what’s the percentage of IE6 users? Do you even officially support IE6?
If your IE6 percentage is low enough that you don’t need to worry about supporting that steaming pile of crap then I am going to fly into a jealous rage right about now…
That you have less than 10% of visitors using IE is amazing. If I had less than 30% on the sites I manage, I would be seriously tempted to start treating IE as a second class citizen.
I’d go with the ratio of 32 iPhone users for every single symbian user. That’s the power of mobile safari…
I can’t believe how many Chrome users there are.
Interesting data, but …
Over 8% on Chrome—even more than all IE versions combined? That doesn’t pass the “smell test”. I am gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that one, or both, of you uses Chrome to use your own site and this skews the stats.
Interesting data, but …
Over 8% on Chrome—even more than all IE versions combined? That doesn’t pass the “smell test”. I am gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that one, or both, of you uses Chrome to use your own site and this skews the stats.
@Joe Grossberg,
I was very surprised too about the Chrome. Allan and I (and all of the folks that work here) are mac users, so no Chrome for any of us. My main browser is Safari 4 beta and Allan goes between Safari and Firefox.
@Joe Grossberg @Steven Bristol,
A lot of Windows users are starting to use Chrome. I have seen people who love and promote Firefox and Opera, but secretly use Chrome (really, I am not joking). Chrome is probably the best looking piece of software on Windows right now. Firefox beats Chrome on usability in a few places (e.g. you cannot drag the current tab and create a bookmark out of it in Chrome). Somehow, I find that few people want to promote Chrome, even when they primarily it for browsing.
these are some very interesting stats :) however the images seem to be covering up your search function on the right hand side meaning I cant actually search for the blog post I was looking for.
still very interesting blog post though :)
keep up the good work
Wow more mac than windows O_O
Do you filter out your own IP addresses?
Do you filter out your own IP addresses?
Our own access is an insignificant percentage of the overall traffic.
I think that the most interesting stat consists of two parts. One that Mac’s outweigh PC’s (although not real surprising all by itself) and two that Firefox is beating Safari (Again not too surprising all by itself).
What I find most interesting is that this means that are a lot of the Mac users who are not using Safari but are using Firefox instead, less if there are Windows or Linux users using Safari (I doubt that). I’m not a mac person, yet, but I kinda figured they all used Safari, period.
You’re lucky because in both cases over 80% of your visitors use only 3 diff browsers and 2 diff operating systems. Which means you dont have to spend your valuable resources trying to please everyone.
I’m not a web developer etc, just a big fan of your work.
JD