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Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 18:50 UTC (Wed) by mgb (subscriber, #3226)
Parent article: WebKit rising

> One can argue that the mix of browsers used by LWN readers is not typical of the net as a whole

FWIW, March 2008 stats for a light (200K hits/month) LAMP web site with subject matter unrelated to Linux:

Windows 95.5%  (75.1% Vista, 16.7% XP, 2.0% W2K, 1.7% other)
Mac      3.0%
unknown  1.0%
Linux    0.3%
BSD      0.0%  (0.02% before rounding)

MS/IE   79.9%
Firefox 15.9%
Safari   2.0%
Mozilla  0.7%
Opera    0.5%
Netscape 0.4%
unknown  0.1%
others   0.1%


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Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:04 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

Unrelated to linux?  What does the L in LAMP stand for then?

Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:15 UTC (Wed) by mgb (subscriber, #3226) [Link]

The site uses a LAMP stack, where L stands for Linux. However, unlike LWN, the subject matter of the site is unrelated to Linux.

Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:36 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

75% Vista. So even though it's not Linux-related, I bet it is tech-related.

Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:55 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Masochism-related, perhaps. (I don't know *anyone* who's voluntarily 
'upgraded' to Vista yet. Actually, that's a lie, I know two early 
adopters, but they downgraded again.)

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Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:43 UTC (Wed) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link]

For that website's traffic anyway, it would seem that in Windows-land, Vista adoption has
already reached 78%. Hmm, I had no idea that it was so high.

Some browser stats

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:56 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

That vista percentage is suspiciously high, the rest suspiciously low. Is this some sort of
microsoft geek site?

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Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:57 UTC (Wed) by mgb (subscriber, #3226) [Link]

ERRATUM: The Vista and XP figures above are transposed.  XP should read 75.1%.  Vista should
read 16.7%.

Apologies.  Thanks to everyone who pointed out my mistake.

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Posted Apr 3, 2008 9:28 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (subscriber, #24) [Link]

Mr. Jon, purely out of interest, and unless it's considered commercially useful, any chance of
getting more of the LWN stats?  Yes, I'm a geek, why do you ask?

Some more browser stats

Posted Apr 3, 2008 16:14 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

1 Windows XP 79.12%
2 Windows Vista 6.48%
3 Mac OS X 4.95%
4 Windows 2000 3.29%
5 Linux 2.01%
6 Windows 98 1.05%
7 Windows 2003 0.73%
8 Windows ME 0.38%
9 Windows NT 0.06%
10 WAP 0.03%

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