Non-Tech Website Statistics
Some semi-anonymous browser statistics from a non-technology-related e-commerce website during a one-week period in early February 2006:
| 84.1% | Internet Explorer (97% of these using IE6) |
| 9.6% | Firefox (43% of these using v1.5) |
| 2.5% | Safari |
A few thoughts:
- Firefox really does have somewhere around 10% of the market. Most of the other statistics I’ve seen are skewed towards a more tech-aware crowd and lean more in favour of Firefox.
- Almost everyone uses Internet Explorer is up to version 6. It has been out for a few years now, and upgrading is easy, but I’m still surprised how few people are still on IE 5/5.5. This bodes relatively well for update of IE7 (which is already starting to show up in the statistics in beta form).
- A few people (literally, just a “few”) use IE5.x for the Mac
- Not even one visitor during this week used Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4. Not one. I never thought I would live to see such a time.
- Mac users are around 4%, Linux users below 0.3%. Someone visited using OS/2!
Ah, bullet points - lazy cousin of the paragraph.
Especially as those people are quite likely to have auto-update on, which means they'll upgrade to IE7 automagically, which in turn means fewer people left on IE6 for unheathly amounts of time (unlike IE5).
I'm a tad disapointed that Firefox could only push 1.5 to 43% of its users. Probably Firefox 2 (being a big number and all) can help the push.
I am also glad for the death of IE5:mac.
MS Internet Explorer 78.2 %
FireFox 14.5 %
Safari 2.5 %
Netscape 1.7 %
Opera 1.5 %
Mozilla 0.6 %
Unknown 0.2 %
NetShow Player 0.1 %
Others 0.1 %
yansen, figures for my blog are even more different. But you can hardly compare a blog with any e-commerce site, can you? I guess that blogs see much more firefox and Mac users than the average.
