Comments on: MSIE MIA?

By: Mark Nottingham

Mark Nottingham — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:56:10 +0000

It’s interesting that NetNewsWire (an RSS aggregator) is in there. Perhaps you’re seeing Firefox’s numbers inflated because its built-in aggregator is polling your feed? Just a thought.

By: Anthony B. Coates

Anthony B. Coates — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:21:22 +0000

I’ve checked the FeedBurner stats for my blog for the last 3 days, and those do distinguish IE 6 & 7. My blog is mostly hit by searches from Google, mostly for Linux-related items. My stats are
Firefox 2.0.0.1: 35%
IE 6.0: 18%
Firefox 1.5.0.9: 13%
IE 7.0: 11%
Firefox 2.0: 7%
Mozilla 5.0: 6%
Other: 11%
That’s 61% for Firefox+Mozilla, 29% for IE. IE 6 still has almost twice as much usage as IE7 according to my stats. As far as operating systems go, to the nearest 1/2 percent it’s
Windows XP: 48.5%
Linux: 41.5%
Windows 2000: 3.5%
Mac OS X (PowerPC): 1.5%
Mac OS X (Intel): 1.5%
Windows 2003: 1.5%
Windows Vista: 1%
Other: 1%
so it’s Windows 54.5%, Linux 41.5%, Mac 3%.
Cheers, Tony.

By: David Carver

David Carver — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:25:21 +0000

Dave, I’ve seen similar stats since IE 7 was released, and know many people that were die hard IE 6 users that have made to switch to FireFox after having used IE 7. Our own stats are around 65% IE, 33% Firefox, with over 87% of vistors using a Windows OS.

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:01:33 +0000

You’re seeing about three times the normal percentage of Mac users and probably ten times the normal percentage of Linux users. I wish the rest of the web had stats like that, but, alas, no. At work (a large shopping website), Firefox is still down around 10% or so.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:47:55 +0000

If a quarter of your visitors are non-Windows, that is a high percentage indeed (about 95% of desktops run Windows, by the best current guesses). It’s hardly surprising that MSIE is low. And I don’t believe it’s IE7 being classified as unknown, or you’d see a big spike in Unknown.