Typical small business browser stats?
My friend Jeff was nice enough to share with me his dumpster rental website’s browser stats from May 2008 – December 31 2008. There were more Firefox users than I had anticipated, and I’m hoping that number increases for next year. I suspect Safari will climb too with the always-increasing sales of Macbooks and iPhones. How do these comapre with small business your stats?
- Internet Explorer 74.04%
- Firefox 20.24%
- Safari 4.80%
- Chrome 0.32%
- Mozilla 0.27%
- Netscape 0.14%
- Opera 0.11%
- Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.03%
- Camino 0.02%
- Playstation 3 0.02%
Jason Robb has this to say:
2/5/2009
Hey Marcel,
Not much is more interesting than browser usage stats. Honestly, I find a bit odd that I’m so fascinated with them.
Here are the stats from one of my company’s site’s. It’s not a small business per se, but we’re not huge by any means.
MyHappyPlanet.com browser stats:
If that image tag doesn’t work, here’s a link to it: http://img.skitch.com/20090205-fc5k5hfi1gdhu1h37y4mb4nkxt.png
Browser stats are really only any good if you view them in the context of the product. You can’t, for instance, say that 74% of the entire user base of the internet uses MSIE, judging from those stats.
It’s not especially reliable for determining how to go about building a new site. But it definitely helps when deciding where to go from here, once you’ve been collecting stats for some time.
Peace,
Jason R.
Chas Porter has this to say:
3/27/2009
Do you have a breakdown within IE that shows the percentage using IE7 vs. IE6?
Marcel has this to say:
4/13/2009
Chas, the breakdown was IE7 – 64.61% and IE6 – 34.85%