After my recent post wondering why so many readers still use Internet Explorer, I’m happy to report the numbers have shifted in favor of Firefox.
Before January 25, 2004:
26% Internet Explorer
22% Firefox
5% Safari
3% Opera
For the week ending February 20, 2004:
23% Firefox
19% Internet Explorer
4% Safari
3% Opera
(Numbers don’t total 100% because bots and RSS readers are excluded.)
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February 20th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
I guess that’s partly thanks to your article; and partly thanks to the humongous amount of publicity they got (Wired cover) recently.
February 20th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
I downloaded it - it’s so much better!!
February 21st, 2005 at 12:55 am
Funny ’bout that — a quarter of mine are Safari. Do I write Mac-friendly blog entries?
February 21st, 2005 at 4:11 am
i actually made the switch over to mozilla in the last year, so i’m part of that 7% migration. now, how about some hard numbers for overall vistors…ie: 23% represents how many vistors? and how does that compare to the number of users represented by the 26% a year ago? then we’ll have a much more statistically-sound survey. wow, i’m a huge dork.
February 21st, 2005 at 9:49 am
Sadly, them of us who read your site at work as a protest against global capitalism have no choice in such matters.
IS says IE it is.
February 21st, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Obviously this blog catters for an audience more tech-savvy than the average joe. (end of complacent elitism) IE is still hovering at 85% on the whole and ‘global capitalism’ likes standards. Even bad standards. Bad standards more than anything; provided anything will tilt to blur the status quo.
February 22nd, 2005 at 12:20 am
My decision to switch is based soley on John’s post. And I got my whole family to switch as well as my friends.
I used to use Netscape way back in the day, and was a Netscape fan, but hated the fact that it took forever to start up.
It was the only reason that I switched to IE. Starts up in one second.
Firefox takes about 5-10 seconds to start, which at first was going to turn me off. But no pop ups, pages load a lot faster. I’m a fan now.
February 23rd, 2005 at 5:14 pm
I’m part of the change group thanks to you. Tiago
February 24th, 2005 at 9:26 am
Americo,
IE starts faster because it’s part of windows and more imortantly, cached at load time… you can tell windows to cache other programs too, like Firefox. SO that should solve the speed problem.
February 26th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Actually, your Opera numbers might be higher if it weren’t for the fact that it sometimes masquerades as IE. I use Opera 7.54, and anytime I visit a site that tells me what browser it thinks I’m using, it always tells me IE.
February 28th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, the masqueraders are always an issue. I don’t know any way around that.
May 9th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/120756
Flaws found in the browser, Yahoo News reports.