Firefox 2 vs. IE7: A Factor of 2

Posted by Kelson on Sat, 01/06/2007 - 00:39Using Firefox

I noticed something interesting about my website's browser stats over the last few days.  I'm specifically looking at IE7 and Firefox 2 as compared to the total IE hits and total Firefox hits.

IE7 has been running about 21,000-29,000 hits/day.  Firefox 2 has been running 12,000-17,000 hits/day.  So by that measure, there are almost twice as many IE7 users as Firefox 2 users.

Compared to other versions, though, IE7 accounts for ~23% of all IE hits, and Firefox 2 accounts for ~44% of all Firefox hits.  So nearly twice the percentage of Firefox users have upgraded to the latest version compared to IE users.

I found it very interesting that the ratio reversed itself so exactly when switching from raw numbers to per-browser percentages.


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an explanation
Submitted by billyea on Sat, 01/06/2007 - 00:48.

You have to understand, most businesses/schools aren't ready to upgrade. (I'm assuming the missing half of IE7 users is business/school, since virtually all homes got it via Automatic Updates) and some are still running incompatible versions of Windows (less than XP, 2000 is what most businesses run on).

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