firefox takes the lead at boing boing dot net
Over at Boing Boing, which has been a great proxy for webstats at blogs in general, the latest report shows Firefox in the lead over IE with 43% to 32%. If you add up all of the Gecko based browsers at Boing Boing, it's nearly 50%.
Following Firefox and IE are Safari with about 11%, Mozilla with nearly 5% and "Unknown" with 4%. Behind "Unknown" is Opera.
Nice.
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I'm glad to see that over half of the Firefox users who read BoingBoing have upgraded to Firefox 1.5, and that most of the rest are using Firefox 1.0.7, which means they're likely to upgrade when we give them a red update icon. (Why haven't we done that yet, btw? I know that was answered in a mozilla.org staff meeting but I didn't catch the answer.)
Comparing the Opera percentage to the "Unknown" percentage is silly because the "Unknown" percentage is probably made up mostly of things like feed readers, web spiders, and blog spam programs, whose hit patterns differ from those of web browsers. Also, a better web stats program would identify more of the "Unknown" hits as either fringe browsers or not web browsers.
Interesting that the Mozilla Suite accounts for almost twice as many hits as Opera.
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman | December 23, 2005 6:53 PM
I added the explorer destroyer script to my blog and I went from 55% IE, 35% Firefox to 50% Firefox, 40% IE in about a month. Safari 3%, Opera 3%.
Posted by: Xavier Ashe | December 24, 2005 8:03 AM
I blocked all ie users at my website and went from ie 50% fx 30% opera 15% other 15% to ie 0% fx 65% opera 25.6% other 15.4% that's quite nice.. who needs ie users anyway.
Posted by: sowaht | December 24, 2005 11:53 AM
I've never seen more than 15% IE users in any given month whether or not I added disincentives. This month I've had 2% IE users, 1.6% KHTML users and 0.7% Opera users.
Posted by: ant | December 24, 2005 1:34 PM
If you take a look at the OS stats, behind "Unknown" (5.7%) is Linux...
Posted by: GoogleBot | December 24, 2005 2:48 PM
I thought you may want to see this statistics published by netapplications for the year 2005. This is the link http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=3 it loks that Firefox had a great year.
Posted by: Alberto | December 31, 2005 11:39 PM