Firefox beat Internet Explorer in number of people accessing wordpress.org by about 80,000 in January. Of the people visiting with IE, over 90% were using 6.0. This makes web development much, much easier.
Firefox beat Internet Explorer in number of people accessing wordpress.org by about 80,000 in January. Of the people visiting with IE, over 90% were using 6.0. This makes web development much, much easier.
Unfortunately, those aren’t global statistics; however, for developing the WordPress site, it does indeed make things much easier for you. Congratulations, hopefully these statistics will spread like wildfire. 😉
Visitors to wordpress.org != Visitors to wordpress.org blogsBut I believe it is representation of users of WordPress, which is who I code for.
“WordPress recommends the open-source Firefox browser” 🙂
well my wp blog look good when viewed using firefox.
w3schools says that
Internet Explorer (6.0 and 5.*) still holds about 70% 'market'It holds much much more. W3schools must have been prudent.
Roy – No those figures are about right.
Of cource the figures for indivdual sites vary. My work site gets 93% from IE, but thats because of its demographic (teachers and schools).
When you concider that the Mac is around 4-5% on its own and there is NO version of IE on those anymore (plus Mac users tend to be more clued in on technical and software change/upgrades), combined with an estimated 15% share for Moz/Firefox, then its not hard to see where the figures come from.
I usually estimate 75%, but thats still in the ballpark of w3schools.
Gregory,
As soon as I had posted my comment, I realised that I forgot to state the most important point. Browser shares, just like many stats, depend on the definition. Do you count hits? Visits? Unique IP addresses?
The fact is: Firefox users are blasting the Internet with requests for data — some of it never even to be viewed. Firefox users also tend to spend more time on the Internet. So, far less than 30% of all people use Firefox. Maybe 30% of traffic is Firefox driven. For the record, in the month of January, 52.2 % (101508) of my site’s traffic was Firefox… but I bet most unique visitors use IE6 because they come randomly from Google.
90.000 means nothing when we can’t compare it to the total amount of visitors 🙂
Roy,
very true. I tend to use unique visitors in this context however – as those are the actual people that visit – thats your number of visitors. However it is always interesting to see how hits breaks down too. I find this less useful tho.
I’m not sure what you mean about blasting the net with data. They open up in new tabs more, I know I do, but this is because its easier to see the data, hardly not-viewed.
I would also bet that IE makes up more, just because it’s a larger market share, but that’s sort of the point about market share I think. I would imagine that the percentage of IE and Firefox coming in from google is the same actually – maybe more from firefox, because of the easy google search feature in the toolbar.
Of cource, as ever – all this depends on your projected audience and current readership!