Comments: i love to see stats like this

Our 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 at May 25, 2005 7:15 PM

Looks 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 at May 25, 2005 7:24 PM

My 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 at May 25, 2005 8:22 PM

Under 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%

Posted by big_surfer at May 25, 2005 11:02 PM

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%

Posted by Testcase at May 26, 2005 12:47 AM

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 at May 26, 2005 4:17 AM

A 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 at May 26, 2005 5:43 AM

Stats 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 %

Posted by Nicholas at May 26, 2005 8:12 AM

Tim Bray has a high profile site, and he graphs the browser breakdown almost every week.

Posted by Ramius at May 26, 2005 10:13 AM

Stats 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 at May 26, 2005 10:18 AM

I'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 at May 26, 2005 11:40 AM

I 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 at May 26, 2005 1:12 PM

Movin' on up!1

Posted by Mike Dallos at May 26, 2005 2:01 PM

"Stats are stats"

I see no decline in the rise of Firefox. :D

Posted by Free as a bird at May 26, 2005 6:41 PM

LOL at mycroft stats! Why'd anyone visit your site with IE or Safari??

Posted by Tsee at May 26, 2005 7:12 PM

For business I work at, IE clear leader
97.63% use MSIE 6.0

Posted by ok at May 26, 2005 7:57 PM

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 at May 27, 2005 2:41 AM

Nunya: "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 at May 27, 2005 3:35 AM

I 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 at May 27, 2005 11:28 AM

Mozilla 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 at May 28, 2005 12:28 AM

Im 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

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Posted by Raggajungle at June 1, 2005 6:57 PM

In May 43% of all pageviews on WordPress.org were from Firefox and Mozilla browsers, compared to 27% for Internet Explorer.

Posted by Matt at June 4, 2005 12:32 AM
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