I've been tracking the browser share at boingboing.net for a while now because it's a pretty good proxy for overall share in the blogosphere. Right now, Firefox is sitting at 52.1% share of boingboing.net's readership and combined with the other Gecko-based browsers, Mozilla's user agent now accounts for more than 55%.
It's also interesting that while roughly 24% of boingboing.net's usage comes from Macintosh users, Safari only accounts for 12.4%. There are no other Mac browsers with >1% share at boingboing.net so I think it's a reasonable interpretation that nearly half of the boingboing.net Mac users are surfing with Firefox.
What kind of numbers are you seeing at your blog?
Posted by: Rafael | March 26, 2007 9:16 AM
My site's only small, but it's been mostly Fx/Moz for about 3 years. I decided to drop IE6 support by taking out all the ugly hacks and moving to XHTML and it hasn't had a negative impact at all. In fact I'm getting more traffic now I have more free time to work on actual content instead of worrying about IE user complaints.
Posted by: ant | March 26, 2007 9:58 AM
I don't know that it counts as a blog (although the RSS feed ranks at #432 worldwide on Technorati) but PortableApps.com's 8 million monthly visits are made up of 61.19% Firefox users.
Posted by: John T. Haller | March 26, 2007 10:36 AM
At the moment I have 52% Gecko users and 17.5% Internet Explorer (lots of spam bots from the look of it). Opera is around 0.8%, rest is spiders. But that's probably not very representative :)
Posted by: Wladimir Palant | March 26, 2007 10:46 AM
I tried filtering out the obvious bots and now the number are: 63% Gecko, 8.8% Internet Explorer, 1% Opera.
Posted by: Wladimir Palant | March 26, 2007 11:16 AM
Have a look at Webhits.de (http://www.webhits.de/deutsch/index.shtml?webstats.html) and Xiti Monitor (http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/technique/firefox-mars-2007/index-1-1-3-77.html).
On Webhits.de, the Mozilla family has been over 24% for more than a week now. Xiti Monitor says Firefox is at 24.1% in Europe, with Slovenia (44.5%) and Finland (41.3%) in the lead.
Posted by: ADAXL | March 26, 2007 12:06 PM
I get 63% MSIE, 28% Firefox, 2% Safari. And 7% unknown by my web tools (probably Konqueror?).
Posted by: Lionel | March 26, 2007 3:31 PM
Gecko 65.37%
MSIE 31.39%
Safari 2.67%
Opera
Posted by: Daniel Glazman | March 27, 2007 3:23 AM
Sorry for spam, my comment above was truncated.
Opera is below 1%.
Posted by: Daniel Glazman | March 27, 2007 3:25 AM
I have to say, I thought it was going to taper off and it has a little bit but still going up. I wouldn't be surprised for boingboing to reach 60-70% Gecko though.
A push in the Enterprise space would do the trick.
My web site has about 30% Firefox :( and of that about 70% on 2.0.x.
I think it's mostly because of all the spam I get but who knows.
Everyone I know uses Firefox but that 30% has been that way for a long time.
BTW. I was going to start a market share tracking project using SocialText similar to Om Malik's Broadband profile. I still want to do that but haven't had the time to finish it off. I had the site more or less ready. I'll just have to take an afternoon and get it done.