My own interesting browser stats...


Well, we run several web sites on our departmental SunFire server, but the two most popular ones are the departmental web site for Earth & Planetary Sciences and our informational meteorite site that is linked by scientific sites all over the internet. Today I was looking at the browser stats for both sites (for the months of May and June 2009) and noticed quite a substantial difference between the two:


Departmental Website
Internet Explorer49%
Mozilla Firefox40%
Safari8%
Chrome2%
Others1%

Meteorites Website
Internet Explorer68%
Mozilla Firefox25%
Safari5%
Chrome1%
Others1%


I know that the meteorites site actually receives more than twice as many hits as our departmental site and it gets a lot more hits from from "non edu" sites, so it most likely better represents the general browsing world as a whole. Our departmental site gets a lot more hits from within Washington University and also from other universities and from people interested in our academic programs (probably high school students/parents and college students looking to transfer and for graduate school). It is pretty amazing how much less of a dominance Internet Explorer has in the university and educational areas as whole. In fact on our departmental site, IE does not even hold a majority of all browsers. There are also a higher percentage of Mac users at WashU and academia in general helping out Safari (and probably Firefox as well) and any desktop Linux users like myself are most likely using Firefox too.

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