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115 million visitors?  31%?  Sounds pretty mainstream to me.   

From Matt: 

Here’s our browser breakdown from 115 million visits to WordPress.com:

1. 62.46% - Internet Explorer, sub-breakdown by popular request
   1. 64.10% - Version 6.0
   2. 35.17% - Version 7.0
   3. 0.28% - Version 5.5
2. 30.74% - Firefox
3. 3.83% - Safari
4. 1.78% - Opera
5. 0.52% - Mozilla

RFE:  Is it possible or does anyone else want a Planet installation on SpreadFirefox, so a planet.spreadfirefox.com? There's just too much info on planet.mozilla.org these days and would be great to have a blog aggregation service on this site?

Thoughts?

Over the years we've been tracking large sites, blog sites, and web development sites for browser market share.

The folks at AsianWeek.com have been kind enough to share some browser share data. 

It's a good number because the AsianWeek audience is  not a technical audience.

Anyway, here's what they got for September 2007:

Internet Explorer - 55.4%
Firefox -  32.1% (8% of which are on 1.x still)
Mozilla - 5.8%
Safari - 5.5%
Opera - 0.6%

http://www.news.com/Microsoft-Office-heads-to-the-Web/2100-1012_3-6210696.html?tag=nefd.lede

Microsoft builds their Web applications for Internet Explorer, usually optimized for IE, and sometimes exclusively for IE.

An online version of Microsoft Office needs to be compatible with popular browsers, Firefox and Safari and the pressure needs to be put on them (by us) to make sure it happens. 

I've started a couple documents and I would love help.  Email me at rebron@gmail.com if you'd like to collaborate.

Web Browser Market Share 

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pz8fwNCfw0h2JzuBDDgE_Tg&gid=0

We'll need a contact from some top sites to fill in the blanks for us and get permission for their data.  Some of the other sites they can fill-in themselves and would love to get more sites added to this list.

Web Browser Standards Matrix

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pz8fwNCfw0h1QJinrfy5aQw

This one is still early.  But I think it would be useful for developers to definitively know the difference between the different browser implementations of the different web standards. 

I've seen some tables, but I think a SpreadSheet might do a better job.

I used to be an accountant so I like spreadsheets, and this Google SpreadSheets app is pretty cool. 

We have an Ironwoman in our midst, mcolvig.  And while Ms. Colvig doesn't like to mix business with pleasure she does spread firefox in her personal time including during Ironman Races!

Good luck to mcolvig at Ironman Canada 25th anniversary this weekend!!  I'm sure she'll be sporting a Firefox cycle jersey and putting Firefox stickers on athlete's bikes.

**update** Forgot to add that she's a great representative for Mozilla/Spread Firefox and we're lucky to have her.

btw.  mcolvig, you're going down ;-)  Ain't going to let you beat me by an hour like in 2005!! 

One of the goals of SpreadFirefox when we first started the project was to create a marketing project that matched the technical excellence of the engineering teams.  We're not exactly there yet and I think we all would still like to move forward with this goal.  I'd like to anyway.

I'm not a marketing expert but would like to be, and would like to learn more about building a brand, maintaining a brand, messaging, and other technical aspects of marketing.  

I can imagine that some of the engineers might think that marketing is all fun and games and is fluffy advertising and conferences and handing out stickers.  But there's a whole lot more to it than that, it's a lot more numbers oriented and strategy than people think. 

Anyhow, would love people's thoughts on this and how we could get started.  Maybe a discussion on the 4 P's of marketing and starting there.