Browser Market Share on WordPress.com

Posted by rafael on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 21:29Spreading Firefox

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

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Interesting
Submitted by NotDoingThisAnymore on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 16:02.

I find that interesting! Good on Firefox - I was "converted" (if that is the right word, maybe "set free" suits better) in Jan this year, never looked back!

There is an awful lot of IE6 users and I agree that is scary as it is "unsafe" (more unsafe) compared to IE7. Yet I'm not surprised, my father works for a security firm and hated the upgrade, asked to go back to IE6 and they let him (along with many employees) - which I find ironic. Although 6 is faster and easier (IMHO) and to me, they would find FX just as easy (then discover it's total excellence later) then the "weird" 7 layout.

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IE 6 needs to die. (Might as well kill IE 7 too)
Submitted by JustZisGuy on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 18:32.

According to this graph, the uptake of IE 7 over IE 6 seems incredibly slow, especially considering IE 7 is being "pushed out" via windows update. This could be because of businesses refusing to update.

Whatever the reason, IE 6 is holding back web technology (Although IE 7 is still years behind Firefox) and this should be considered an opportunity while it lasts to convert people to Firefox.

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Sweeeet
Submitted by Ken Saunders on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 05:09.

Great to see.


Ken

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