64% of You Use Firefox
I’ve been looking at the traffic stats from this week’s Digg spike in our logs. Here are some observations about the 21,000 visits we’ve received so far:
BROWSERS
- 64.42% use Firefox
- 20.02% use IE
- 9.82% Safari
- 3.11% Opera
PLATFORMS
- 75.92% Windows
- 18.69% Mac
- 5.06% Linux
SCREEN RESOLUTIONS
- 30.83% 1280 x 1024
- 27.15% 1024 x 800
- Less than 1.5% use 800X600 or lower
About 40 to 45 % have Flash 9+ installed. Digg drove a little more than half of all traffic within the last 3 days with the following break down: Day 1 – 72% of traffic, Day 2 – 31% of traffic, Day 3 – 21% of traffic. So basically Digg is like a giant filter that feeds out to the rest of the web/blogosphere, since now we have a ton of referrers.
These stats are definitely from the web crowd and are SOOO different than the stats I see on “normal” non-tech-focused websites (you know, the ones outside our echo-chamber – the ones visited by the people who make up the rest of the 95% of the population.)
For instance, Firefox penetration usually runs around 15% for other sites I’ve monitored – generally between 6% and 25%. Also, 5% of Linux users is quite high compared to 0.10% to 0.5% that I usually see.
The lesson: know your specific audience, look at your stats and don’t generalize. Averages are dangerous.
Doug Curtis said,
September 29, 2006 @ 8:12 pm
I saw similar results in a recent posting, only ~33% of the traffic was IE, the rest were various versions of Firefox (and a small amount of Safari).