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Operating Systems and Browsers

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by minstrel, Apr 14, 2005.

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    Stats for my Psych forum suggest that Firefox and Netscape are gaining a bit but Windows is still completely dominant:

    Operating System
    Windows XP 71.8%
    Windows 2000 14.6%
    Windows 98 9.9%
    Mac (PPC) 1.6%
    OS X 0.8%
    Windows NT4 0.4%
    Windows NT 0.2%
    Windows 0.2%
    Windows 95 0.1%
    Linux 0.1%
    FreeBSD < 0.1%

    Total Windows: 97.39%
    Total Other: 2.61%

    Browsers
    MSIE 6.0 84.23%
    'Mozilla' (Could be anything) 11.06%
    Mozilla Firefox 8.23%
    MSIE 5.x 50 1.91%
    Netscape 7.x 1.38%
    Gecko-based 1.15%
    MSIE 5.5 0.92%
    Opera 0.77%
    OS X Safari 0.61%
    MSIE 5.01 0.46%
    Linx 0.27%
    Mozilla K-Meleon 0.04%
    Netscape (not 6.x or 7.x) 0.04%

    Total MSIE (all platforms): 87.52%
    Total Gecko (all platforms): 10.83%
    Other browsers (all platforms): 1.65%

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    Stats for my main Psychlinks website show a similar picture:

    Operating System
    Windows 91.9 %
    Unknown 5.6 %
    Macintosh 2.2 %
    Linux 0.1 %
    FreeBSD 0 %
    WebTV 0 %
    Sun Solaris 0 %
    AmigaOS 0 %
    Unknown Unix system 0 %
    OS/2 0 %

    Browsers
    MS Internet Explorer 86.2 %
    Unknown 5.2 %
    FireFox 5 %
    Netscape 1.4 %
    Safari 0.7 %
    Mozilla 0.6 %
    Opera 0.4 %
     
    minstrel, Apr 14, 2005 IP
  2. DarrenC

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    Yeh I'm seeing the same on my sites, but Netscape % is reducing.
     
    DarrenC, Apr 14, 2005 IP
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    It depends entirely on what audience your site is targetted at.
    stats so far this month from one of my more techno orientated sites:
    windows: 65%
    linux: 25%
    Mac: 7%
    firefox: 45.8%
    IE: 38.9%
    safari: 3.9%
    This is a low traffic site, about 500 uniques per month.

    Compared with my cricket site (als0 500 uniques):
    windows: 83.7%
    linux: 11.4% (mostly me)
    unknown: 4.2%
    Mac: 0.4%
    WebTV: 0.1% - that's a new one on me, never seen it before.
    IE: 81%
    firefox 12.8%
    unknown 4.2%
    WebTV browser 0.1%
     
    jlawrence, Apr 15, 2005 IP
  4. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Exactly... a point I've made elsewhere more than once. Most (if not all) of the claims of large inroads from other OSs and even browsers are based on stats from sites where there are a high proportion of designers or gamers -- the problem is this isn't a representative sample of the average internet surfer/site visitor/internet purchaser.
     
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    Hmm, you might have a point about designers, but not gamers.

    Gamers would be bias towards Windows. Most gamers are stuck with Windows, it being the only OS to carry virtually all high street games (likely due to market demand, not necessarily due to any supposed superiority).
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    You're probably correct, nullbit -- the inclusion of gamers was a holdover from another similar conversation about monitor size and screen resolution stats.
     
    minstrel, Apr 15, 2005 IP
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    MSIE 6 68.12%
    MSIE 5 15.94%
    Firefox 13.04%
    Netscape 1.45%
    Safari 1.45%

    These are the stats from my new site. Firefox on the increase!
     
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  8. Design Agent

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    Firefox is on the increase for me to + I have similar stats to the above.
    Although my real concern is daily Pocket PC users..I have one and the web is pretty bad on it.. even with wifi.. its fast enough, but no sites are built with small devices in demand. Also, as 3G is commercially hitting the UK at last..does anyone have any insights about what to do for them ?
     
    Design Agent, Apr 15, 2005 IP