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Who is winning browser war for your blog?

Posted by SleepingDude • 7/29/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, browser war, Firefox, internet explorer

Looking through my blog log ( www.howtowakeupearly.com )with Google Analytics I've discovered the following browser stats (summarized for last 3k visitors over last few weeks):
- Firefox - 65%
- Internet Explorer - 27%
- Safari - 5%
- Opera - 2%
- all others - 1% (Camino, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc)

These numbers are definitely out of sync with the info I've read in a number of sources giving Firefox 10 to 20% browser market share. Or is just the nature of the users who visit blogs dedicated to personal development and selfimprovement?

What numbers you've got for your blog?

User Comments

7/29/07

clioandme

Haven't checked recently, but Firefox and Safari are in the lead, followed by various versions of iE and then some of the others. Makes sense to me. Many of my students have a Mac. And many informed internet users use Firefox. Internet Explorer seems to be more for the crowd that uses what came in the box when they got their computer.

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7/29/07

Norski

As a month-old blogger, my blog numbers are too small to be statistically significant. The small-town-life website, though, might be interesting:

Browsers, 2007 to date:
78% Internet Explorer
14% FireFox
04% Safari
03% Mozilla
01% everything else

I agree with stoneman's comment about FireFox and IE and Internet users.

Thanks for a look at your statistics. Hope this helped.

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7/29/07

heitner

over the past month:

1. Internet Explorer 11,473 57.68%
2. Firefox 6,971 35.05%
3. Safari 1,047 5.26%
4. Mozilla Compatible Agent 195 0.98%
5. Opera 75 0.38%
6. Mozilla 41 0.21%
7. Netscape 34 0.17%
8. Camino 30 0.15%
9. SAMSUNG-SGH-I607 16 0.08%
10. Palm680 3 0.02%

www.sportsagentblog.com

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7/29/07

Getty72

My blogsite grahamettridge.blogspot.com has been up and running for just over one month.

The results so far are:

73.22% Internet Explorer
21.89% Firefox
3.77% Safari
0.71% Opera
0.40% everything else

I hope this helps.

Graham

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7/29/07

jrgarralda

In my case, my blog elgiganteverdoso.blogspot.com which is 2 and a half months old shows the following statistics:

80.20% Firefox
14.39% Internet Explorer
2.16% Mozilla
1.70% Opera
1.55% Everything else

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7/29/07

ScooterKSU

My blog looks to be heavily favored by IE users:

35.59% IE6
28.55% IE7
24.29% FF
8.97% Safari
2.6% Other

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7/29/07

bsd13

FF - 86.8%

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7/29/07

decoratorinside

Internet Explorer 7 51.7%
Firefox 39.1%
Internet Explorer 6 5.7%
Safari 2.7%
Internet Explorer 5 0.2%
Opera 0.1%
Gecko 0.1%
Konqueror 0.1%
Netscape 2 0.1%

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7/29/07

bnsullivan

Don't have my stats open right now, but I do check at the end of each month. It's been IE consistently in the lead since I began tracking traffic in 2005, with Firefox steadily gaining over the past year or so, and Safari a distant third.

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7/29/07

zawadi

always Firefox

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7/29/07

daisythecurlycat

Hmm, let me see here. Over the last 30 days:

IE 55.8%
Firefox 35.5%
Safari 6.9%
Opera .6%

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7/29/07

neoauteur

IE is still by far the top browser.

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7/29/07

jphillips

Firefox 87.9 % (I guess the "get firefox with google toolbar" works pretty good for me)
Internet Explorer 6.5 %
Safari 2.9 %
Opera 1.1 %

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7/29/07

woofcp

firefox 50%
explorer 38%
safari 6%
netscape 4%
and others....

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7/29/07

jungl

The last 500 visits:
327 65.40% Firefox 2.0.0
77 15.40% MSIE 6.0
64 12.80% MSIE 7.0
12 2.40% Safari 1.2
9 1.80% Firefox 1.5.0
8 1.60% Mozilla 5.0
3 0.60% Firefox 1.0.7

But I recently got some stumbleupon traffic and I believe you need firefox to install the SU toolbar..

I don't get why there is still so many using IE 6.

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7/29/07

eagerblogger

Most of my readers use Firefox.

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7/29/07

demonicume

Internet explorer - which is a shame. i'd like to think my readers were enlightened enough not to use an inferior browser

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7/30/07

SleepingDude

jungle -
I use SU with IE, so it's not Firefox only

demonicume - take it easy

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7/30/07

ilovethatrecipe

I didn't really check.
I think for my site, www.ilovethatrecipe.com .

Estimation
IE is about 60%
FireFox (20%)
Netscape 10%
Other 10%

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7/30/07

standalone

So, which one is the winner?

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7/30/07

Profitline

firefox rocks!

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7/30/07

SleepingDude

so far data seems to be quite different...

I tend to agree that casual users tend to use IE, while most bloggers and activer internet surfers probably use Firefox

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7/30/07

PrairieBluestem

Definitely Internet Explorer on my sites by a 3:1 ratio. Many of my readers are old enough that they didn't grow up using computers. What they do know, they've picked up as adults. Some of them have learned to use the computer as older adults. I doubt if many of them have ever downloaded and installed a program from the internet. They use the programs that were on the computer when they bought it -- that is, Microsoft programs, including Internet Explorer.

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