Interesting surfer statistics

[Hammer]

I was checking Google analytics for my blog this morning and found some of the stats to be very interesting.

Browsers:
Firefox - 71.03%
IE - 25.54%

Screen resolutions:
1024x768 - 36.71%
1280x1024 - 19.46%
1280x800 - 15.04%
1140x900 - 6.4%
800x600 - 4.18%
Very large monitors - 13.3%

Connection speed:
Cable/DSL - 86.30%
Corporate - 5.5% (probably broadband)
Dialup 5.08%
Unknown - 3.03%

Java enabled - 98.9%

I'm sure that everyone's stats will vary slightly, but based on these stats, I'd say we should design for 1024x768 and broadband and stop worrying about surfers that turn off javascript.

I think the Firefox percentage is particularly interesting.

[jonnydoe]

I agree with you on the 1024 Hammer... I think designing for 800 is almost like catering to the 3rd world countries that don't buy anyway. I think maybe you flip-flopped your IE and FF numbers there ;-)

[Hammer]

Nope, those are the correct IE and FF numbers and that's why I was surprised.

[jonnydoe]

That is a shocker to me...I guess the blogging crowd embraces FF more than the general population. My numbers are usually near 80-20...IE to FF. FF has been growing though...

[Yoni]

can you clarify guys whether it's ie 6 or 7?

I was looking for this kind of stats lately. Thx for posting it.

[jonnydoe]

from Saturday when I had a pretty substantial amount of traffic...

Browsers:

IE6 40%
IE7 27%
Netscape5 21%
Safari 2%
IE5 1.5%
Netscape4 1%
Operas 1.5%

The Netscapes are mostly FireFox users...

OSs:

WindowsNT 86% (mostly XP)
Mac 4%
Windows 98 4%

These are dedicated server stats so they should be pretty accurate.

[Yoni]

Originally posted by jonnydoe
from Saturday when I had a pretty substantial amount of traffic...

Browsers:

IE6 40%
IE7 27%
Netscape5 21%
Safari 2%
IE5 1.5%
Netscape4 1%
Operas 1.5%

The Netscapes are mostly FireFox users...

OSs:

WindowsNT 86% (mostly XP)
Mac 4%
Windows 98 4%

These are dedicated server stats so they should be pretty accurate.

very nice, thx a lot.
the number of ie7 users is growing.......

[King Porn]

Hammer uses Google analytics? I remember talking about it in your chat room when it first became available and you frowned on using it... I've used analytics since way back when I got my first invitation. Aside from server stats, they are the next best thing in free stats.

[jonnydoe]

I agree with KP...Google Analytics is sweet. It even shows stuff my Wusage is not capable of. Only issue is loading that damn script on every page...

[Hammer]

Originally posted by King Porn
Hammer uses Google analytics? I remember talking about it in your chat room when it first became available and you frowned on using it... I've used analytics since way back when I got my first invitation. Aside from server stats, they are the next best thing in free stats.

I know, ain't it cool. I do change my mind on occasion.

[Cozy Monica]

I think that people who read blogs are more inclined to use FF because there are buttons all over most blogs encouraging its use.

Thanks for the stats Hammer. I was pretty sure that 800x600 resolution was almost dead.

[mynameisjim]

I stopped designing for 800 X 600 a while back. Even if people still use it my thinking is that they have to be familiar with scrolling every website they visit so I doubt you will lose those visitors.

As for the Firefox vs. IE, I think Hammer's stats are a little bit of an anomoly and reflect more about his core audience as opposed to the web in general.

[theviking]

Most webamsters/geeks/whatever are at Hammers blog so i do not anyone should change the way to think.

I have 3 sites directed towards webmasters, and they all are well above 80% FF ... all other sites are appx. on 80-90%IE.

There are still ~30% that surfs on a 800X600 resolution. You might not loose them, but it is not nice to sidescroll

[balls_deep]

My blogs are all steady with

30% Firefox
60% IE

they are catered to the surfer though so i don't expect large firefox usage.

thanks for the stats

[Hammer]

Yeah, the stats for my others sites show FF users to be between 30% and 40% so I was surprised to see the high FF percentage for the blog. It shows that different demographics require different approaches.

You must have a lot of European traffic, Viking, because none of my sites show anything close to 30% using 800x600. I usually see something around 8%.

Balls, my blog caters to surfers too, although probably a more high brow group than the average porn surfer.

I think the stats show that porn sites get a ton of Chinese and other foreign traffic that are using outdated equipment as well as kids that are probably using computers that are their parent's hand-me-downs.

[fpanko]

My 800x600 stats have been around 5% for over a year now.
I stopped catering to them a while back when I saw yahoo, msn and a couple large news sites switch to 1024.
They can either upgrade, adjust their moniters or scroll. I think they are used to scrolling at this point.

Heck my home machine is 1920 wide. I can nearly put 2 1024 sites side-by-side.

As for firefox, I see about 60% use on blog sites, and abot 15% on all my others. Most blogs just cater towards firefox a little better. I know I usually need to update the css in wordpress template to work with ie.

[alessandro]

I'm sure that everyone's stats will vary slightly, but based on these stats, I'd say we should design for 1024x768 and broadband and stop worrying about surfers that turn off javascript.

Yep, I've been doing that for the last year or so .