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December 22, 2004
Barely Legal Browser Stat Breakdown
After my last post regarding the Firefox/Explorer armed conflict, I'll try to settle things down a little by exposing the browser stats here at Barely Legal Substance with a quick n' dirty analysis.
First, a shout out to the one Blackberry user who bravely ventured here. You, madam or sir, have my respect. Otherwise, you may note that MSIE is sitting pretty with a 62% share, while the Moz and crew are posting a respectable 30%. The zealot's will note, though, that non-M$ browsers account for roughly 38% of the hits. Take that, monopoly!
As a side note and with barely concealed arrogance, I wager that the crowd hitting here from the "Barely Legal" Google searches is skewering the results toward MSIE.
MSIE Core 699 62.30%
Mozilla/Gecko Core 329 29.32%
Other Browsers 72 6.42%
Opera 15 1.34%
Netscape 6 0.53%
Mobile Browsers 1 0.09%
The breakdown thusly follows:
MSIE 6 636 56.68%
Firefox 1.x 168 14.97%
Firefox 0.x 98 8.73%
Safari 72 6.42%
MSIE 5 42 3.74%
Netscape 7 42 3.74%
Mozilla 1.x 21 1.87%
Opera 7 15 1.34%
AOL 9 14 1.25%
Netscape 3 3 0.27%
Netscape 4 3 0.27%
AOL 6 2 0.18%
AOL 7 2 0.18%
AOL 5 1 0.09%
AOL 8 1 0.09%
PDA's 1 0.09%
MSIE 4 1 0.09%
To the six people who are still using Netscape 3 & 4: for the sake of the future of all mankind, please destroy your computer and buy another one. I mean take the pizza box outside and hit it with sledgehammers until it stops whimpering. This is harsh, but in light of the fact that you are still using the Blight of the Earth (NS 3) and the Bane of All the Internet (NS 4), this measure carries a high warrant. I would give you an upgrade path, but we were doing that in '99 and '00. The time of peaceful upgrades has ended.
Windows 997 88.86%
Apple 111 9.89%
Linux/Unix 7 0.62%
Other Systems 6 0.53%
Mobile Systems 1 0.09%
I'm pleased to report that the vaunted Windows monopoly is still alive & kickin', if showing some chinks in the old steel & duct tape. A big up to my boys and girls hitting us with the Apples and Unicies.
As a recovering ex-web developer, the topic of screen resolutions is near and dear to my heart. In that category, you kids today have it much easier than I did in 2000--a good 74% have > 1024x768. Oh heavens, this is glorious:
1024x768 591 52.67%
1280x1024 234 20.86%
800x600 162 14.44%
Other 72 6.42%
1152x864 43 3.83%
1600x1200 17 1.52%
640x480 3 0.27%
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