October 28, 2006
I can't believe what I'm seeing. If these stats are not accurate, by the way, I certainly can not explain why they are not. We even filter out our own IP addresses to avoid skewing the numbers.
This is a graph showing a breakdown of visitors to Digett's web site, broken down by browser. Firefox is claiming a significant advantage over Internet Explorer. Has anyone else seen this shift? To be fair, IE is still ahead for the month, but it seems clear that their dominance is on the wane.
Granted, we don't exactly get loads of traffic on our modest little site, but I think we have enough here to make this interesting, at the least.
Disclaimer: I still use IE most of the time. Well, Maxthon, actually (which uses IE's engine). I use it because I like to see what "most" people are seeing. These stats, however, are provocation to give serious consideration to making Firefox my default browser.
Mark | 2:59 pm | Design | Development
Let's face it, who's going to visit the Digett web site? Probably more tech-savvy web surfers, many of whom are using Firefox or MSIE 7.0. I don't think such a cutting-edge populace is indicative of the web browser landscape at large. I think a better measure would be to see the browser breakdown at Kentucky Derby or Jackson Browne. For my web sites, I see about 90% MSIE and about 7% Firefox. This is closer to what the numbers are at w3schools.com, where they track these things. Surely, the Firefox market is large enough to preclude MSIE-only development.