Some interesting web stats

[logical muse]

Since my site, http://www.notjustatheory.com/, was submitted to stumbleupon.com a couple of days ago it's received thousands of hits. I had a look at the stats and and I was amazed to find:

Browsers|Hits|Percent
Firefox|4447|89.8 %
MS Internet Explorer|397|8 %
Mozilla|43|0.8 %
Safari|34|0.6 %
Opera|10|0.2 %
Netscape|6|0.1%
Unknown|5|0.1 %
Camino|4|0 %
Konqueror|2|0 %

Nearly 90% of the visitors use Firefox!

[Solus]

That probably means your message is getting to the wrong people...

:D

[logical muse]

hahaha yep you're probably right!

[shawn]

Just for curiosity...how many IE6 vs. IE7?

Trying to get an idea of how quickly people have started upgrading.

[logical muse]

Just for curiosity...how many IE6 vs. IE7?

Trying to get an idea of how quickly people have started upgrading.

65% IE7
35% IE6

Seems like people are upgrading.

[shawn]

About 60%/40% the other way for me. I still have:

5 384 5.51% MSIE 6.0
6 258 3.70% MSIE 7.0

I think mainly because I get more developers reluctant to give up the testing ability in IE6...I can only hope.

[Azure]

I think its almost required to upgrade to IE7.

Firefox is by far the better of the two though.

[logical muse]

I wonder if my 90% Firefox browser stat is due to nearly all the visitors coming from stumbleupon.com? I'm not signed up with them, but my understanding is that you need the stumbleupon toolbar. Are Firefox users more likely to install it than IE users?

For those of you with web sites, what percentage of your visitors use Firefox, and what percentage IE?

[shawn]

I wonder if my 90% Firefox browser stat is due to nearly all the visitors coming from stumbleupon.com? I'm not signed up with them, but my understanding is that you need the stumbleupon toolbar. Are Firefox users more likely to install it than IE users?


Nope, I have pretty much the same ratio of stumbleupon referers to others (about 85 - 90%). I guess that means that most people who would read more on that topic simply don't tend to use IE.

[Ducky]

What none of you know is that those aren't unique visitors. They're all me. (http://fowlsoundproductions.com/photos/kde.xp.osx.inone3.jpg)


(oops, according to the list, left some browsers out of that screenshot. Perhaps I'll make another with Opera and Camino on there too...)

[Ducky]

Ok got one with most of that list... (http://fowlsoundproductions.com/photos/kde.xp.osx.inone5.jpg)



Don't mind me....I'm just completely geeked out today.

[logical muse]

What none of you know is that those aren't unique visitors. They're all me. (http://fowlsoundproductions.com/photos/kde.xp.osx.inone3.jpg)


(oops, according to the list, left some browsers out of that screenshot. Perhaps I'll make another with Opera and Camino on there too...)

But none of them are looking at the site in question!

:)

[Ducky]

But none of them are looking at the site in question!

:)

heehee.

Ok I'll post that one next...

[logical muse]

This site: http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/ got over 70,000 unique visitors in the space of a couple of days, due to digg.

Here are the stats:

Browsers|Hits|Percent
Firefox|56966|67.8 %
MS Internet Explorer|16544|19.7 %
Safari|5225|6.2 %
Opera|2102|2.5 %
Mozilla|1622|1.9 %
Camino|557|0.6 %
Unknown|427|0.5 %
Netscape|142|0.1 %
Konqueror|136|0.1 %
NetNewsWire|68|0 %
Others|117|0.1 %

That's a lot of Firefox out there!

[geni]

All the cool kids are useing seamonkey now.

[shawn]

Ok got one with most of that list...

Don't mind me....I'm just completely geeked out today.

I haven't taken the time to put KDE on here (or even KDE-based apps). How well does it run?

Partial to VMWare, myself, btw.

[shawn]

All the cool kids are useing seamonkey now.

I never really used Mozilla Suite to start with, since I never used most of it. What do you prefer to seamonkey over Firefox/Thunderbird? (And what platform do you use?)

[Ducky]

I haven't taken the time to put KDE on here (or even KDE-based apps). How well does it run?

Partial to VMWare, myself, btw.


Ported via fink. Runs great. I could install something via Parallels (like kubuntu etc.), which is what XP was installed into, but since coherence doesn't support linux I chose to install fink and compile KDE that way. As you can see in the pics, I can actually interact with KDE, OSX and XP in one environment that way.

It can get wonky when you're doing really processor intensive stuff, however. I was compiling kdevelop while waiting for Logic 7 to bounce a particularly large mix and I found KDE to get pokey when trying to run some apps then, however I probably shouldn't have beat up on my machine so much at one time.

I will say that of the VM stuff, VMware's Fusion really was the fastest with linux installs. XP/Vista are comparable between Parallels and Fusion, but imho coherence mode takes the cake.

[shawn]

Ported via fink. Runs great. I could install something via Parallels (like kubuntu etc.), which is what XP was installed into, but since coherence doesn't support linux I chose to install fink and compile KDE that way. As you can see in the pics, I can actually interact with KDE, OSX and XP in one environment that way.

It can get wonky when you're doing really processor intensive stuff, however. I was compiling kdevelop while waiting for Logic 7 to bounce a particularly large mix and I found KDE to get pokey when trying to run some apps then, however I probably shouldn't have beat up on my machine so much at one time.

Yeah, if you suck up the resources of both processors things can get a little cranky. I haven't really gotten quite to that point with my iMac yet, even compiling a couple of things while using VMWare and my normal apps (not really taxing - Firefox, Adium, Terminal, Mail, and Songbird) concurrently.

I will say that of the VM stuff, VMware's Fusion really was the fastest with linux installs. XP/Vista are comparable between Parallels and Fusion, but imho coherence mode takes the cake.

I've simply had better experiences with VMWare and plan on sticking with it. Though honestly, I think the VMWare vs. Parallels thing will basically come down to user/company preference more than one actually surpassing the other. They both definitely have huge benefits (especially now that VMWare has hardware graphics acceleration).

For example, I usually put X11 into full screen mode and put IceWM or enlightement in there, but I know most people (whom I've talked to, at least) tend to prefer it rootless as it ships.