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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 02/25/07 19:33
Red wrote :
> Im pretty interested in seeing some reliable data on browser market
> share.
How much reliable is "reliable" when roughly 1 billion PCs surf on the web?
> It has no effect on how I design my pages, but its useful stuff
> to know.
If it has no effect on your design, then why would it matter? In the
end, in last instance, what really matters is that all your webpages use
valid markup code, valid CSS code, try to be accessible, try to conform
to standardized/official W3C specs, gets content updated, etc.
> I've found many sites that publish this, but the data varies widely. For
> example I've recetntly seen firefox having anywhere from between 13 and
> 39%.
It's perfectly reasonable, expectable for a site who offers a Firefox
extension to have more Firefox visitors than normal. E.g.:
> Im guessing that a lot of sites that publish these figures use
> their own server logs, so may already be biased to one type of browser
> (a web design orientated site may show higher firefox figures than say a
> site like zdnet.)
>
I am not sure I understand the relationship you establish between biased
and server logs. [Addendum: ok, I think I do now..]
Here are my site's stats:
http://www.gtalbot.org/Varia/BrowserStats.html
and some others:
Monthly stats from the counter.com:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/
w3schools.com:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Firefox marketshare:
http://ff.asbjorn.it/pages/msgraph.php
Browser trend (market share):
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/
WebDevout stats:
http://www.webdevout.net/visitor-stats#versions
XiTi (European stats; excellent and reliable):
http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-us/technicals/firefox-november-2006/index-1-2-3-68.html
(Firefox crosses the 23% frontier in Europe)
Food for thought:
Why web usage statistics are (worse than) meaningless
On interpreting access statistics
http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/webstats/
GΓ©rard
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