David Emery OnlineShow us your stats!
16 October 2006
Inspired by Robert’s post and Scott Stevenson’s post on site statistics I thought you lot might be interested in the stats of this site.
Firstly, lets have a look at the platforms that the visitors to this site use:
It comes as no surprise – to me at least – that the majority of readers are using Macs. Obviously I write a lot on mac specific topics, so to have more Mac readers then Windows readers isn’t too odd. It also touches on some of the fallacies of the continuing Mac-Windows market share debate – what market are you talking about? Are you talking about the market share of all computers? Does that include ATMs, for example – quite a few of them run a form of windows? Do you mean home computers? What about the market share for readers of mac-based websites? Etc…
What’s interesting about this set of statistics is how evenly matched the three main browsers are – obviously it’s nice to see Internet Explorer so low, but I’m quite surprised how Safari is edging out Firefox. I would hazard a guess that’s because, with this sites mac bias, many readers have little reason to switch to Firefox as Safari covers all the important functionality most people want from a browser.
Nice to see OmniWeb high up there too – I imagine this is due to the large amount of evangelising I’ve been doing amongst my social circle… Now that it’s got to 5.5 it really is the best browser on any platform, by the way.
If anyone had any doubt that Google has the search market sewn up, then this should clear that up. 95% of all the searches to this site come from Google, with MSN and Yahoo vying for the scraps.
So, to all you bloggers out there reading this – come on then; show us your stats!