firefox stats at boingboing
Rafael Ebron blogs about the latest stats from BoingBoing. 49.9% is a nice number. Including other Gecko browsers and the number is about 53.5%. Not bad at all!
I've been following the BoingBoing stats for almost two years and I noticed an interesting trend. BoingBoing is a good proxy for the top100 weblogs as rated by sitemeter. They've consistently been within a couple of points of each other in Gecko usage since I started tracking in December of 2004. So, rather than aggregating all 100 top blogs, it's pretty safe to just look at BoingBoing and use that as a proxy.
Yes, stats are just stats, and this is just one area on the Web, but it's still a pretty good number and Gecko's growing at a decent pace (about 10 % points in the last year.)
The alternatives browsers, Safari and Opera have also gained a bit, Safari with an increase of about 2 % points and Opera with about 1/2 % point increase in the last year.
The best thing about the BoingBoing stats is that IE has fallen all the way down to around 25% while the 21st century browsers are swiftly approaching 70% of the BoingBoing traffic.
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
if you'd read your facebook once in a while...
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2106717
Firefox 52,919 71.83% [Data Over Time: Firefox]
Internet Explorer 13,730 18.64% [Data Over Time: Internet Explorer]
Opera 3,306 4.49% [Data Over Time: Opera]
Safari 2,532 3.44% [Data Over Time: Safari]
Mozilla 649 0.88% [Data Over Time: Mozilla]
Camino 295 0.40% [Data Over Time: Camino]
Netscape 130 0.18% [Data Over Time: Netscape]
Mozilla Compatible Agent 41 0.06% [Data Over Time: Mozilla Compatible Agent]
Konqueror 33 0.04% [Data Over Time: Konqueror]
BoringWall 18 0.02%
also, some guy posted on your facebook asking for his calculator back, you might wanna check that out
Posted by: Tom | October 16, 2006 3:35 AM
BTW, the mainstream numbers seem less encouraging. This is the numbers from the approximately 100 largest commercial websites in Denmark (or at least those that have chosen to join The Association of Danish Internet Medias to get their traffic counted in a standard way): http://www.fdim.dk/?vis=page&ID=73
Posted by: n | October 16, 2006 5:47 AM
At least 1 out of 4 blogs tracked by SiteMeter is bogus:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/02/gaming_the_blog.html
And since when is Netscape a 21st century browser? :-)
Posted by: Cornelius | October 16, 2006 10:03 AM
@Cornelius: And since when is Netscape a 21st century browser? :-)
Only if you count NS7.x. NS 8+ is iffy. I don't know if I can count browsers that can switch to IE's rendering engine at any time.
Posted by: frankf | October 16, 2006 10:46 AM
the big picture(tm) - internet explorers' userbase is falling.
Posted by: a | October 16, 2006 2:12 PM
As of today, BoingBoing now has MAJORITY Firefox usage: 50.1% :-)
Also, the graphs on www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/12/BMS are pretty nice; the "browsers via search" graph is particularly telling.
Posted by: Limulus | October 18, 2006 4:37 PM
But of course, BoingBoing has "come out" as a liberal blog and so just as their attitude has a liberal bias, so will their browser stats? Are Republicans more likely to use Windows IE and Democrats the "communist" Firefox? Probably.
Posted by: Andrew Jackson | October 21, 2006 12:07 PM