Browser Statistics
posted on january 21, 2005, tag: site
I decided to take a look at some browser statistics today. The last time I did this (about two years ago), Internet Explorer was at 65%, various Mozilla clients at about 15% and Safari at about 2%. Oh, how times have changed.
Looking at the period of January 1 to January 20, 2005, the statistics are pretty favorable. Internet Explorer is still the majority leader, but only because Firefox and all other Mozilla agents are broken down into separate groups. If you add Firefox (27%) and Mozilla compatible agents (6%) together, plus the random agents like Netscape and such, Mozilla actually surpasses IE. That's great news. Also, Safari is at a whopping 14%, which is a significant jump. I'm sure a lot of this is due to xPad, but it's still great to see that many Safari users.
Another surprising number is NetNewsWire and NewsFire users. A total of 10% of people reading this site do so via NNW or NewsFire. That's good to read and makes me feel less crazy about having every page available as a feed.
If things keep going this way, IE will be a significant minority soon. I can't wait!
Comments
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cai on 01/21/2005:
Very impressive. Unfortunately, this doesn't represent the entire web. I long for the day that it will.
Congratulations on getting 68% sane viewers!
Jonathan Smith on 01/21/2005:
I'll toast to that!
My stats mix in there a great bit. I read your site using Firefox at work, and Safari and NNW at home. I just downloaded NNW not long ago and find it pretty handy.
mynoo on 01/22/2005:
do you guys have any news about google's browser, the "mozilla project".
Alum on 01/23/2005:
What are you talking about, mynoo?
Jason on 01/25/2005:
are you removing your own ip address when lookign at those logs ?
Garrett on 01/25/2005:
Actually, no—that's a good question. I hadn't thought to do it and now that I look at it I don't think there's a way using Urchin. None the less, it should be noted that I don't visit my site very often. Usually only to respond to comments (like now) or to make sure new codebase features work.
Still, valid point.
Dmkjr on 01/25/2005:
I think Firefox has higher percentages now. I've looked, and I believe it's up to 36%
mynoo on 02/02/2005:
"Alum"
i was talking about "google & firefox" here is a link to it if you are intereted.
http://news.com.com/Google+snaps+up+top+Firefox+programmer/2100-1032_3-5548682.html?tag=nl