Dec 23

Browser Saturation

I’m curious these days about actual browser saturation statistics. Everyone has a different story.

Boing Boing reported this week that almost half of their visitors are coming in on a Mozilla-based browser. OneStat.com is reporting IE has dipped under 90% for the first time in many, many years. WebSideStory says Firefox market share is up 34% in one month (of course, they claim this is from 3% to 4%…).

W3Schools is reporting Mozilla saturation of over 20%, climbing from just 8% a year ago, but this is just their users, which are often Web developers who are more friendly to Firefox than the Average Joe. Browser News samples five sources, which report Firefox usage rates from 5% to 35%. TheCounter.com gives Mozilla browsers about 9% in November.

While it seems consistent that Mozilla browsers are definately on the upswing, I’m beginning to think that browser numbers are good for only one site: the site from which the log files were pulled. Everything else is speculation.

by Deane   December 23, 2004 10:34 AM   |

Comments

by Matt,   December 23, 2004 2:43 PM  

Another that I've looked at in the past is http://www.echoecho.com/.

Also, Dan Cederholm had an interesting blog entry recently on when he can stop worrying about IE5: http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/12/17/ie5.html

And, like the conclusion that you came to, many people mentioned that browser stats are only good for that one site and you should make your decisions based on your site stats and trends.

by Jonathan M. Hollin,   December 26, 2004 7:20 AM  

IE - pah! Firefox - it's an also ran.

Looking at my weblogs I can tell you that there both the above (and all other browsers) are overshadowed (by far) by... wait for it... The Bot!

That's right folks, "the Bot" is the dominant "web browser" out there, accounting for 70%+ of my page views.

So forget the rest, go with the majority and install "the Bot" today!

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