I have a snapshot of data of 1 million users and here is the browser data.
You can see that Internet Explorer is by far the most dominate browser out there no surprises :
and I honestly expected more Firefox 3 users out of 1 Million only 7,908 Firefox 3 users!
Internet Explorer 7.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 are head to head which surprised me a little
Added : the site is a commercial site and informational for young working professionals, no adsense !
also added in the SEO industry the skew is much different
But if you take another example of a UK e-commerce site :
DaveN
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Just to follow up — we use google analytics too
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I’m really surprised to see that many people still using IE6 when I’ve been using IE8 for 4 months now.
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What was the industry? I find in more technical / design sites the FF rate is a lot higher.
Also with SU or Digg traffic the FF users are 90% +
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What kind of audience are we looking at? The amount of people still using IE6 is a little scary.
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added a few more screen shots seo and ecom
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[...] David bestätigt das, was ich auch schon lange dachte. Auch in den UK hat der IE bei normalen E-Commerce-Seiten die Nase vorne. Bei den “normalen” DAUs Usern ist der IE immernoch weit verbreitet. Bei Nischen-Seiten die sehr Internet-Affin sind, ist der FireFox gut dabei. [...]
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thats sort of what i see and dont forget that ff fan bois are often young and dont have amuch of a income
though i did see a well known internet guru try to link up his linux laptop and give an open office proesenation was not the best way to prove the viability of open office or to be said fo rthe av setup at Nottingham uni
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[...] to know multiple Googlers are probably reading Shoemoney, Dave Naylor, Quadzilla and probably subscribe to all the SEO black hat forums and training [...]
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[...] Dave Naylor reminds us that, despite how much we SEOs and tech nerds bow down to Firefox, Internet Explorer is still the dominate browser. [...]
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I expected firefox to do much better.
Shows things haven’t moved as quickly as i would have liked.
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[...] Dave Naylor reminds us that, despite how much we SEOs and tech nerds bow down to Firefox, Internet Explorer is still the dominate browser. [...]
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I’ll add some more to the mix (also using GE) – 1.3 million visitors over the past 30 days;
IE – 83.45
FF – 12.41
Safari – 3.57
Opera – 0.35
PS3 – 0.03Very UK focused site (90% UK traffic).
IE breakdown:
7.0 – 67.09%
6.0 – 32.65%Scott
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any idea how many of the firefox stats are from firefox 3, thx
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the browser really depends on your niche… If you have a mainstream or people website you’ll more likely get visits with internet explorer, on the other hand a specific blog in the niche of tech will have more readers using firefox…
Obviously it depends on your niche!
Here are my stats for 7.9 million users over the last 30 days (that’s right, 7.9 million):
Internet Explorer: 69.85%
Firefox: 22.05%
Safari: 5.52%
IE Only users:
IE 7.0: 72.72%
IE 6.0: 27.06%
So you see, take these browser share stories with a grain of salt and check your own. Depending on the tech abilities, or source of your audience, these can vary widely.
In DavidNaylor’s case, the audience may be more corporate and coming from work where using browsers other then IE is prohibited. Mine is more consumer focused.
Cheers!