Stats are stats, make what you want of them. I enjoy seeing usage stats from high-profile sites and sites I frequent. Today I got word that BNC's InsideGoogle blog has just seen Firefox take the lead in browser usage (and total Gecko browsers have taken a fairly commanding lead of more than 45%)
Stats are stats (yes, I felt the need to say it twice,) make what you want of them, but it's the trends that matter most to me and the trend I'm seeing across the blogosphere is still shooting up for Firefox.
My last poll of the sitemeter stats for the "top 100" blogs, (as rated by TTLB) showed that in December, Firefox usage was around 20% and other Gecko usage about 5%. I've just run that same basic tests (though the available stats list was slightly different) and came up with 34% Firefox and another 5% for other Gecko browsers. Not bad.
IE was still beating out Firefox by just about 10 points so we've still got work to do with the blogging world ;-) Behind Firefox (and other Gecko browsers) was Safari with a nice chunk of usage at 10% and Opera was behind Safari with only about 1%.
Stats are stats (yep, a third time) so make what you want of them, but this is a trend I like a lot. IE is falling rapidly with this audience, and it's Firefox (with some help from Safari) that's responsible.
If you've got a high-profile site and can post your stats here, please do. I'm always looking for more data :)
Posted by asa at May 25, 2005 06:03 PMOur May (to date) stats for the private university I work for:
98,281 unique visitors
IE: 78.5%
FF: 13.3%
Mz: 3.7%
Sf: 1.7%
NS: 1.1%
Not quite the volumes as within the blogosphere but education institutions are websites too. ;) Cheers! ~ Kevin
Posted by: KevinFreitas on May 25, 2005 07:15 PMLooks good, hopefully you clearly indicated to all the Opera lovers that seem to have made this place their new home that you fully realize "stats are stats", but I doubt it :(
I like watching the Boing Boing stats at: http://www.boingboing.net/stats/. Interestingly enough, Firefox and IE have been running very equal share for a couple of months now, after Firefox surged for a while. I wonder if we haven't reached some level of balance. The "mass market" coming to Boing Boing through the SE's or as a personal bookmarked site still being HEAVILY (probably 90%+) IE, while the more "techie" market is probably pretty well saturated with Firefox or some alternative.
Like you have indicated before Asa, the key is "How do we improve our "mass market" share? The other thing I like about Boing Boing's stats are that they give very detail on Browser versions, it is interesting to note the pace of adoption on the security releases, as well as the people still using Firefox 0.8 and 0.9!
Will be an interesting site to watch the coming battle of IE7 and Firefox 1.1 play out as well.
Posted by: Darin Grimm on May 25, 2005 07:24 PMMy wife is starting up a fanfiction website, and I've been watching the stats. It's not all that high-profile yet (~600 uniques per day), but it's a glimpse into a very non-technical userbase.
For the month of May:
IE: 95770 - 54.2%
Firefox: 60059 - 34%
Safari: 7279 - 4.1%
Opera: 5231 - 2.9%
Netscape: 3405 - 1.9%
Mozilla: 2927 - 1.6%
Unknown: 1173 - 0.6%
Definitely not the volume you'd want, but...
Posted by: David Lynch on May 25, 2005 08:22 PMUnder www.comsafe.de I run a website with information about computer security (mainly for Windows XP users). A have around 3000 pageviews/month on my entry page, counted by the free OneStat Tracker. The browser statistics for May say:
IE: 56,14%
Mozilla: 38,27%
Opera: 3,24%
Netscape: 1,70%
Apple: 0,41%
Stats for Poland (9 000 000 unique users tracked by cookies):
http://ranking.pl/rank.php?stat=browPL
IE: 82.2%
Firefox: 10.5%
Opera: 5.2%
Mozilla Suite: 1.5%
Netscape: 0.4%
Mac IE: 0.1%
Safari: 0.05%
Why does Asa always have to keep bashing Opera to feel good?
"and it's Firefox (with some help from Safari) that's responsible"
And what about Opera?
(Before you flame me - that was meant to be irony.)
Posted by: David Naylor on May 26, 2005 04:17 AMA punkrock band's webpage:
MS Internet Explorer 57 %
FireFox 29.8 %
Mozilla 4.3 %
Opera 2.5 %
Netscape 1.9 %
Safari 1.7 %
I think this are pretty usual numbers for a German page.
Posted by: testboy on May 26, 2005 05:43 AMStats for 2005, an image hosting website:
MS Internet Explorer, 578505 hits, 81.1 %
Firefox, 90938 hits, 12.7 %
Safari, 11584 hits, 1.6 %
Unknown, 11311 hits, 1.5 %
Netscape, 8005 hits, 1.1 %
Mozilla, 6479 hits, 0.9 %
Opera, 3451 hits, 0.4 %
WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser), 1156 hits, 0.1 %
Wget, 338 hits, 0 %
Firebird (Old Firefox), 320 hits, 0 %
Others, 895 hits, 0.1 %
Tim Bray has a high profile site, and he graphs the browser breakdown almost every week.
Posted by: Ramius on May 26, 2005 10:13 AMStats for May (so far) on my site, which includes some low-profile stuff like my blog and a comparatively high-profile comic book fan site (~4800 unique visitors daily):
MS Internet Explorer 78.4 %
Firefox 14.1 %
Safari 2.2 %
Netscape 1.5 %
Mozilla 1.4 %
Unknown 0.8 %
Opera 0.8 %
Konqueror 0.1 %
And a bunch of stuff below 0.1%.
IIRC, Firefox was already at 10% on my site when the "Do you think Firefox will reach 10% in 2005?" poll went up on Mozillazine.
I was really surprised the first time I noticed Safari ahead of Opera, since I was used to thinking of Opera as #3 in popularity. Also, while I don't have browser stats per platform, I do have platform stats showing 4.6% coming from Macs, which means that Safari accounts for nearly half of the Mac audience on the site.
Some interesting oddities: Traffic to my blog is 40% IE, 20% Gecko-based... and 35% bots, because real visitors look at a few pages, but bots crawl the entire archives on a regular basis. A joke site I set up for April 1 managed to pull roughly 60% Gecko-based / 30% IE when first run, though the trickle of traffic since then has been 50% IE, 12% Gecko, 2% Opera (no noticeable Safari traffic) and the rest bots.
Posted by: Kelson on May 26, 2005 10:18 AMI'd just like to point out that, even without the repeated "stats are stats" line, this post contained nothing apparently anti-Opera whatsoever. Just becuase Asa mentions Opera does not mean Opera fans will take the bait. All he said was "Opera has less than 1% share" at a site, that is the TRUTH. No underhanded comments. It was well-done, and *PROFESSIONALLY* done. A nice change. :)
Posted by: Nunya on May 26, 2005 11:40 AMI know I am totally biased with my site, but I think with 1,015,750 pageviews this month so far (403,761 unique visitors), this is worth mentioning.
1. Mozilla Firefox 1.x 72.3 %
2. Mozilla 1.x 16.7 %
3. Internet Explorer 6.x 4.7 %
4. Netscape 4.x 2.0 %
5. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 %
6. Netscape 7.x 1.0 %
7. Safari 1.x 0.7 %
8. Konqueror 0.3 %
9. Internet Explorer 5.x 0.3 %
And for those who didn't get it, mycroft is the site providing the search plugins for mozilla and firefox, that's why we are biased...
Posted by: ricky @ mycroft on May 26, 2005 01:12 PMMovin' on up!1
Posted by: Mike Dallos on May 26, 2005 02:01 PM"Stats are stats"
I see no decline in the rise of Firefox. :D
Posted by: Free as a bird on May 26, 2005 06:41 PMLOL at mycroft stats! Why'd anyone visit your site with IE or Safari??
Posted by: Tsee on May 26, 2005 07:12 PMFor business I work at, IE clear leader
97.63% use MSIE 6.0
My little comeunity website ( http://www.funcomeunity.de )
1 892166 49.61% MSIE 6.0
2 721530 40.12% Mozilla/5.0
3 92635 5.15% MSIE 5.0
4 37826 2.10% Wget/1.9.1
5 20189 1.12% MSIE 5.5
6 8572 0.48% Opera 7.2
7 7972 0.44% Opera 8.0
8 5818 0.32% Opera 7.5
Greetings Alex//
Posted by: opi on May 27, 2005 02:41 AMNunya: "All he said was "Opera has less than 1% share" at a site, that is the TRUTH."
Actually, that is questionable:
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/05/statistics-nonsense
That Opera caches more than other browser, and that it identifies as MSIE by default, are things that can fool stats. Browser stats are highly unreliable, but can probably be used to look at trends.
Posted by: Roberto K on May 27, 2005 03:35 AMI should clarify Roberto. I meant that, *according to info on the site Asa was discussing* what he said was the truth. Yes, usage stats are debatable, he even mentioned it multiple times. And I don't necessarily agree with his apparent need to compare to every browser every time he posts Firefox stats, instead of just saying "Our ratings are increasing! YAY!" ..But, compared to some of the previous posts of his, I thought this one was a significant improvement.
Posted by: Nunya on May 27, 2005 11:28 AMMozilla is at 17% usage share or even slightly above in Germany, says Webhits.de:
http://www.webhits.de/deutsch/index.shtml?webstats.html
Posted by: ADAXL on May 28, 2005 12:28 AMIm being biased. So what. :D
Firefox takes the lead with 97.56%
Others
Opera is 1.33%
Mozilla .50%
IE less than .02%
Others 1.50%
for this week
Ragga jungle
Posted by: Raggajungle on June 1, 2005 06:57 PMIn May 43% of all pageviews on WordPress.org were from Firefox and Mozilla browsers, compared to 27% for Internet Explorer.
Posted by: Matt on June 4, 2005 12:32 AM