Habitually Good

Here are some very quick-fire statistics from my blog for a browsing period of the last couple of months. These statistics are revealing as they are a reflection of the type of users that visit my blog. And since there are not too many regular readers (more than 80% of daily visitors on this blog are unique, first-time visitors) on my blog, I think these statistics should roughly reflect the state of the users on the Internet looking to read technical content (that is what this blog is mostly about).

These statistics were collected courtesy of Woopra, a blog analytics tool that I have been using recently and graphs were drawn in Excel.

Browsers that visitors use -As can be seen very clearly, the majority of users that come to this blog use some version of Firefox.

I find this to be very surprising because IE is still supposed to be the market leader when it comes to browsers.

Does this mean that tech readers prefer Firefox to IE? It probably does. The other thing that the chart doesn’t show, but the figures did, is that almost one-third of the Firefox users were using FF3, which shows that there is a lot of early adoption of Firefox versions. On the other hand there were still some users who use Firefox 1. The other browsers were Opera and Mozilla.

Macintosh users prefer Firefox - This chart shows a breakup of browsers when the visitor to the blog is a Mac user.

The reason I included this is because contrary to what I would expect, Macintosh  users prefer Firefox over Safari. For every Macintosh user who uses Safari, there are 2 Macintosh users who use Firefox.

Does this mean that even an Apple product is no match for Firefox? I have used Safari and I would prefer Firefox to it any day. So, I guess that it is true that Safari is no good as compared to Firefox (I am not saying I like Firefox, I do have my complaints for that as well).

Finally, Windows still rules - Although IE may be loosing ground, but Windows still rules. The chart below shows that an overwhelming majority of the users still use Windows as their preferred operating system. Additionally, within the Windows users more than 80% still haven’t upgraded to Windows Vista.

What do the stats on your blog show?

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