LXer: Who's Winning the Usage Stats Race? Firefox or IE?

LXer · 10-12-2006, 05:03 PM

Published at LXer:

Who is winning the usage statistic race and who is getting relegated to the background? Firefox or IE. This is a question playing on everyone’s minds, what with two different browser statistics and contradictory reports issued over the past week, highlighting the difficultly in obtaining accurate usage numbers of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

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jiml8 · 10-12-2006, 05:14 PM

My site's statistics for October (to date):
Browsers Grabber Hits Percent
MS Internet Explorer No 6950 73.4 %
Firefox No 1466 15.4 %
Mozilla No 233 2.4 %
Unknown ? 221 2.3 %
Links No 220 2.3 %
Opera No 219 2.3 %
Netscape No 69 0.7 %
Safari No 62 0.6 %
Konqueror No 9 0 %
Camino No 8 0 %
Others 5 0 %

craigevil · 10-12-2006, 05:34 PM

Firefox/Seamonkey by far at least on most tech sites:
My site;
Mozilla/1.8.0.7 66.83%
Opera/9.02 10.82%
Gecko 6.40%
MSIE 6.0 5.37%
Mozilla/1.8.0.5 3.98%
Opera/9.01 3.51%
Mozilla/1.8.0.4 1.91%
Mozilla/1.7.10 0.69%
Safari/419.3 0.31%
Mozilla/1.8.0.6 0.18%

jiml8 · 10-12-2006, 09:55 PM

LOL. The average visitor to my site is an unsophisticated Windows user. I rather expect my site comes close to mirroring the internet, at least in terms of browsers visiting.