Interesting stats

Given that we are a "Content Creation/Creative" serving Web site, the numbers are obviously going to be heavily skewed toward popular and Mac-based browsers such as Safari and Firefox.

Agree with Jim, You have to think about who is looking at your site.

It would be interesting to see what proportion is Windows compared to Mac. Clearly Safari indicates a disproportionate chunk of Mac visitors. But since when was Firefox "Mac-based"? I'd bet most of the Firefox hits come from Windows users who're glad to find the site's Mac-oriented content isn't the usual condescending tripe.

I got a "Logon Failed" message when visiting your "public statistics".

P.S. A Windows Firefox user here. ;-)

sorry, link fixed.

Go to a more general public site like CNN.com and look at its stats. Then you will see stats more like 90% IE users.

I just check my stats for GFX (which is admittedly more PC-focused) and it shows 31% FF, 65% IE, 3% Opera, 1% Mozilla.

I manage the website for Adventist Midwest Health (http://www.keepingyouwell.com) and I have allowed our statistics to remain public as well. While I use Firefox all the time at the office and my Macs at home it is decidedly clear that MSIE is still the most used browser out there - hands down. I believe a site like ours is much more suited at measuring statistics like browser usage over specialized blogging sites. So at 93% (MSIE) to 2.5% (Firefox) I still believe that there is a long road ahead.

As an aside, I'm using awstats for our statistics after ditching Webtrends (free vs. $$$$ for a not-for-profit health system wins any day). However, it's not an ideal solution. I'm frequently asked how such-and-such web page/section of the site is doing over the course of a certain date range. Awstats can't do that where Webtrends could. Neither does statcounter. Does anyone have any free/cheap alternate solutions? Feel free to contact me directly at eknittel [at] ahss [dot] org

FreeStats pissed me off.

I was looking for a simple, free stats aggregator for my Blogger pages. I jumped through their hoops and gave all my info to them, but was never able to access the code I was supposed to paste into my page.

I even read their entire EULA/T.O.S. and bookmarked my place so I could get back there....still, no joy. They never sent me any email with a password, nothing.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM!

You have hard time to believe the 90% share because it isn't true. It is around 65 percent!

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Also from the W3C page:

You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading. ... Also be aware that  many stats may have an incomplete or faulty browser detection. It is quite common by many web stats report programs, not to detect new browsers like Opera and Netscape 6 or 7 from the web log.Many stat trackers I've seen cannot properly identify Safari, nor which version of the Mac OS users are using (should be able to detect 68k or PowerMac and OS9 or OSX for example).

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