Sucks for netscape, good for firefox!
I love Mozilla Firefox, it is an excellent web browser and in my humble opinion, it blows Internet Explorer out of the water (you can download Mozilla here).
Why am I saying this? Well, according to Site Meter, Mozilla is the browser of choice for 26% of visitors to my page. The stats...
Firefox 1.x: 26%
Internet Explorer 6.x: 70%
Internet Explorer 5.x: 1%
Safari 1.x(Macintosh): 3%
No Netscape, how the mighty have fallen! (Mac users, can anyone tell me more about Safari?)
Well, according to w3schools.com, which keeps stats on these things, says the average browser use is:
July 2005
IE 6: 65.6%
IE 5: 8.3%
O 7 : 0.7%
Ffox: 19.6%
Moz: 3.4%
O 8 : 1.2%
NN 7 : 0.6%
IE Internet Explorer
Ffox Firefox
Moz Mozilla (early version of firefox)
O Opera
NN Netscape
So it seems I have more Firefox and IE 6.x users than the general population. My bet is that visitors of my site are slightly more tech savvy than the general internet population and therefore know more about alternate browsers and also have more modern computer equipment. While this doesn't matter for my particular site, this information is vital to anyone who is designing a site for a large audience with many features. You don't want to design a site that can't be fully accessed by 19.6% of your users!
posted by jd at 9:50 PM
2 Comments:
All hail the death of IE! Well, not quite; looks like netscape will get run over first, but it's great that there's finally competition. I still user Safari predominantly on my Mac (Firefox is definitely a bit more powerful, but I love the interface on Safari, it just feels so...Mac-ish), but whenever I use my old PC it's always Firefox.
I think the types of people who would be in our classes or read blogs in general are definitely going to be a bit more tech savvy than the general internet population, but are also leading indicators. I rememeber a post on DailyKos a while back talking about how Firefox had nearly overtaken IE users. Just goes to show: the better product will win out in the end, especially if it's easy to distribute--as it obviously is on the internet.
2:25 PM
Safari is amazing! It far trumps Internet Explorer. Mike D is right when he says it feels mac-ish. Looks great and Neilsen would definitely approve of it's usability....
1:46 PM
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