There’s a meme on Twitter at the moment entitled Share your Stats where web guys are sharing statistics about the browsers viting websites. I’m not sure who started this meme, but I guess they are trying to get a feel for how prevalent Internet Explorer is, particularly version 6. You know most web developers don’t like Internet Explorer 6, right?
Anyway, I have a few sites I can share the statistics for. Here they are:
| Website | Browsers | Operating systems | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | Internet Explorer | Safari | Chrome | Opera | Windows | Mac | Linux | |
| stillbreathing.co.uk | 51.47% | 29.11% | 9.55% | 5.04% | 1.79% | 75.88% | 16.87% | 6.55% |
| wibsite.com | 69.68% | 18.28% | 4.81% | 4.15% | 1.10% | 77.50% | 15.62% | 6.28% |
| myjournal.com | 34.58% | 51.40% | 8.41% | 2.80% | n/a | 86.92% | 8.41% | 0.93% |
| performerjs.org | 65.73% | 11.32% | 8.45% | 9.77% | 2.88% | 73.52% | 16.72% | 9.11% |
| beatsbase.com | 45.40% | 33.97% | 12.06% | 5.71% | 2.86% | 80.95% | 17.14% | 1.27% |
| comp-unlimited.co.uk | 16.91% | 75.21% | 3.83% | 2.23% | 0.46% | 93.45% | 4.73% | 1.14% |
| Large business website | 7.52% | 81.22% | 9.01% | 1.63% | 0.35% | 90.28% | 8.71% | 0.26% |
That’s pretty much what I expected, with a very large proportion of visitors to the more commercial sites weighted towards Internet Explorer and Windows. For the other sites, particularly those with a heavy web development slant, the statistics show a wider spread of browsers. It’s good to see Chrome making inroads, but these kind of results must be somewhat disheartening for Opera.
I’m stuck on IE6 at work, because our IT bods won’t upgrade whilst it is still supported by Microsoft. The fact that many websites don’t play nicely with it, and some flat-out refuse to open, seems to have passed them by. Or it’s all a cunnig ploy to make me get some work done.