Blake pointed me to this post by Robert Scoble -- Microsoft Evangelist.
He posted some data that suggests that over 30% of his Jeremy's hits are coming from Gecko-based browsers, and that non-IE browsers are just a tick away from being the majority at his weblog. That's pretty exciting.
I did my own little informal study of the top 100 weblogs as measured by sitemeter. The numbers were live or near-live so they fluctuated a lot but after a few reloads on a massive bookmark group and samples at different times of day, I settled on 25% as a best guess for Firefox traffic and 35% for all Gecko-based browser traffic across the top weblogs.
That quick and dirty survey mostly jibes with what Scoble Zawodny is seeing, and even comes in well below what's being reported at several of the other weblogs that Scoble he mentions in his post.
It wasn't too long ago, but well before the release of Firefox 1.0 (and even before the amazingly successful 1.0 PR,) that C|Net reported it's News.com site was getting nearly 20% of its traffic from Firefox and Mozilla users. I'd sure like a peek at those numbers now.
There is little doubt that people who visit weblogs and tech sites like cnet.com are generally more sophisticated and more likely than the average Joe to download new software, but these people are also trend setters. I look forward to seeing Scoble's stats updated in a couple more months (and stats for the last 12 months would prove very interesting too.)
update: I was confused. The stats were from Jeremy Zawodny's blog. That page could use some styling so that it's clear what's original content and what's just excerpts.
