Comments on: My Firefox vs. IE stats https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/ Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Lenses https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35656 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:46:38 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35656 Fresh stats from my site in Sweden, I can see that Firefox and Chrome are more popular now compared to a year ago, but IE is still popular. Can’t understand why :S

1. Internet Explorer 52,58 % (9.0 = 1%, 8.0 = 80%, 7.0 = 17%, 6.0 = 2%)
2. Firefox 24,47 %
3. Chrome 12,29 %
4. Safari 9,02 %
5. Opera 1,38 %

]]> By: Nick https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35655 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:59:45 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35655 A year has gone by and here are our stats. Obviously it depends on the site, but for our site Firefox only takes about 25% (march 2010)
Netscape 5 789
MSIE 8 687
MSIE 6 629
MSIE 7 368
Chrome 325
Unknown Browser 196
Opera 97
Safari 42

]]> By: Chronofied https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35654 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:47:45 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35654 Reading this a year and a half after the last post, I still find it very interesting… I would almost want to see a reiteration of this after Pubcon in March, especially with FF3 and Chrome on the “Battlefield.”

]]> By: Nick Buick https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35653 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:11:00 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35653 These stats are insane. I’ve never seen anything come close to that on any of our server logs (150 across different, allbeit, commercial websites).

blogs would have way more firefox users than commercial sites I would assume. But perhaps you guys forget omit your own IP from your stats which would be one explanation for the massive bias?

On average, my stats read:
48% MS IE6 (- 16% PA projected)
37% MS IE7 (+ 16% PA projected)
11% Mozilla Firefox (stablized)

From other stats I’ve read – these seem to be a more accurate reflection of the general public’s usage of browsers on commercial sites.

]]> By: Aaron Smith https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35652 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:21:02 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35652 I find that depending upon your target market, the older generation use IE6 as they dont know how to upgrade, while the younger and more “internet savy” use IE7, Firefox and Safari.

By default i use IE7 and Firefox.

]]> By: Johny https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35651 Tue, 15 May 2007 18:54:32 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35651 I find firefox too crowded, but i still use it for web developping

]]> By: ed https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35650 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:20:54 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35650 I prefer IE, firefox is a little slower in loading up pages.

]]> By: Andre https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35649 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:08:18 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35649 Hmm. Based on data of our hosting network with millions of visits a month, looking at comparison between browsers, stats are clear. And I mean clear as they’re based on thousands of different niche sties. Here’s a roundup:

MS Internet Explorer 70%
Firefox 22%
Netscape 5 %
Opera 2 %

Conclusion: Considering this is coming from most countries in the world, Firefox has a long way to go. Perhaps those webmaster got stats from 1st world countries only. But failed to consider countries in the Middle East, Africa, South America and China.

Just like it’s easy to get high Alexa in niches where most of those visitors already have the toolbar. IE: Internet Marketing for eg.

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As for StatCounter, ExtremeTracking or OneStat; 1st choice Stat, 2nd: Exterme. (Don’t recommend GAnalytics since they’re limited in tracking unless Adsense is used). Eitherway I’ve done tons of comparisons online, only to find StatCounter has always been the mass endorsed over G and others.

]]> By: Jay Gilmore https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35648 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:43:32 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35648 Multi-WordedAdam,

Closed source software has never and will never be any less vulnerable than well funded, well managed OSS projects. MSIE has been caught with its pants down many times–not just because of its ubiquity but because it is insanely easy to decompile C. FF has a distinct andvantage of not being tied to the Operating System and therefore is not likely to render your whole system at risk. MS has insisted in maintaining IE as a portion of the operating system. This seems far less secure than an application that runs within an environment than one that is tied to it. FF has a fast responding developer community who can react quickly and deploy changes and updates within hours and it usually doesn’t make things broken.

I agree with many of the posters that FF is not a perfect browser and users shouldn’t be told what browser to use. If you like IE, use it. If you like FF or Opera, use them. It is a matter of preference. The new interface in IE7 is horrible–why relocate the menu and the button bar? It took me a week to figure out where the refresh and stop button were moved to. (Yes, I know I can F5–it is for clients and live edits)

BTW, you can customize FF to disable tabbed browsing, FF will scroll and Page Down/Up works on install.

I do agree though that FF has a bad time with memory leaks and there are countless stability issues on the new Intel Macs including a Flash bug and major issues with the Google toolbar.

Don’t turn the browser wars into a civil war. Just make it a choice between flavours of ice cream.

]]> By: Shadow1980 https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35647 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:13:45 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/my-firefox-vs-ie-stats/#comment-35647 In our company roughly 90% of the employees are using Firefox, the others are either for browser compatibility checks, sites incompatible with Firefox (Really hate those) or simply incredibly stubborn people who refuse to even go near anything other then the product which is shipped with Windows and thus *must* be the best product out there. (We call these ‘techno-retards’.

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