I sometimes like to explore Google Analytics. It can be quite fascinating what information can be gathered from that program alone. It might be nice to share some of the information with you. I’m not talking about content information but visitor information, information about you.
Some information could give clues on where the Ghacks visitors come from, what browser and operating system they use, the speed of their Internet connection and if they brush their teeth every morning.
Countries and Languages do not contain any surprises. English is the language of the blog and visitors from English speaking countries make up the majority of visitors to Ghacks. Far more interesting is the browser distribution. More than 50% of all visitors use Firefox compared to less than 40% who use Internet Explorer. Opera and Safari are almost reaching the 4% mark.
More than 90% of all visitors to my website use a Microsoft Windows operating system, less than 6% a Apple Mac and less than 3% Linux. No real surprise looking at browser resolutions either. A quarter is running 1024×768 and roughly 20% are running 1280×1024 and 1280×800.
Hope you enjoyed this small piece of information. The most interesting figure is in my opinion that Firefox is way in front of Internet Explorer. This was not always the case. Internet Explorer led the browser pack back in February by a slight margin of 1% (IE 46%, Firefox 45%). If I look back one year it was leading by 10% (IE 51%, Firefox 41%)
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That was interesting noting the differences in browser usage as compared to last year. Could you compare all the stats to last year and post them? Things like Firefox adoption and Linux adoption are always talked about, but less so the change in screen resolutions and Javascript abilities. Thanks for the great site!
Also, what’s the actual difference in % between web browsers?
That’s interesting, too.
Hey Martin i already link your site to my blog. Thanks :)
Obviously Martin since the people who read tech blogs more know that IE= spyware and Firefox rocks!
So they download Firefox hence the higher count. IE users are those who use internet for 15 min.
Ok guys I try to grab a bit deeper and get some additional information. Tony can you explain what you mean exactly. Do you want the usage numbers of Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari in % over time?
Would be nice as well to know the quota Firefox 2/Firefox 3 browsers. And who of the two users brush their teeth the best. Thanks :=)
You should take into account people like me who actively switch between I.E., Firefox 3.01, and Fireforx-based K-Meleon (which will be identified as Firefox 1.0 by Google).