Following Kevin Tofel’s lead, I’ve taken a look at ZNF browser stats in honor of the (world-record breaking) Firefox 3 launch. The snapshot above represents the last 30 days and isn’t that different from the same period of time a year ago – the percent of Firefox readers is actually down a bit, while Safari and IE are up. However, that Safari line item encompasses OS X, iPhone, and PC clients. Nearly 20% of Firefox visitors are already running 3.0.
Firefox is my (multi-platform) web browser of choice – I’ve been on v3 nearly full-time since March. Which is no surprise considering I’ve been a FF user since the pre-v1 days. And I still remember surfing the early, barren incarnation of the web via Mosaic and Lynx back in the Mesozoic era when WWW ≠Internet.
Speaking of the “old days,” if you haven’t already – check out Stewart Butterfield’s amazing Yahoo (Flickr) resignation letter:
http://valleywag.com/5017424/stewart-butterfields-bizarre-resignation-letter-to-yahoo
Sadly, most of my page reqs come from MSIE, followed by Netscape compatible, then Firefox, then Safari, then Camino
FF3 seems nice so far. The good news is that most of my plugins came up compatible one way or another. The bad news is one of them (presumably) crashed FF3 within minutes of starting to use it on Fedora Core Linux. And I seem to be having some of the occaisional Flash issues others have reported.
I wonder what my Nokia E61i Web Browser shows up as? If I were running a windows mobile smartphone I think I’d have to switch to Opera just to keep from contributing to the IE stats…
I know I’m kind of a freak, but I prefer Opera to firefox. Heck, I prefer IE7 to firefox.
Are these stats from your host or from a WP plugin?
This data was culled from Google Analytics, not running on my server. A snippet of code on all my pages that Google tracks. I also have server-side info, though.