New Firefox 4 means it's time to check my Browser Statistics!


I was pretty excited that Firefox 4 was released yesterday since I had been testing it out quite a bit during pre-release, and I have found that it runs the Zynga games on Facebook (Farmville, Frontierville, Cityville) much faster than Chrome 10 had on the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Dell desktop I was using. That alone should make it worth switching! But since it was released I decided to see how many hits we had received using Firefox 4 on our university's very popular meteorites website (meteorites.wustl.edu), so I thought I would get some general statistics on browser usage there.
I broke the statistics down by the browsers and their versions since I was curious on the version breakdown, especially of the just released (Chrome 10, Firefox 4) and beta versions (IE 9) of browsers.

Chrome 8
 0.19%
Chrome 9
4.29%
Chrome 10
2.68% 7.16%   
Firefox 2.X
0.19%
Firefox 3.0 0.59%
Firefox 3.5
1.28%
Firefox 3.6
17.44%
Firefox 4.0
0.47% 19.96%
Safari
16.61%
MSIE 6 5.08%
MSIE 7
12.20%
MSIE 8
38.30%
MSIE 9
0.69% 56.26%

The above table shows that Internet Explorer still commands 56% of our traffic with version 8 being the browser king. Firefox commands about 20% of our traffic and Safari is close behind with 16.6%. Note that Safari includes people on iPhones, iPads and iPods as well as Mac and PC users running Safari on their computers. If I compare these numbers to what I posted in December of 2010, Chrome has gone up from 5.94% to 7.16%, IE has just barely gone down from 58.79% to 56.26%, Firefox has dipped slightly  from 21.33% to 19.96% and Safari is the big winner -- increasing from 12.96% to 16.61%. So I thought I would break down the percentage a bit more and I discovered that 69% of the Apple hits to our servers are coming from Macs (MacBooks, iMacs etc), but 31% are not. They are broken down as 15.8% iPhone, 11.5% iPad and 3.9% iPad. So about 5% of our total web hits are not even coming from computers!

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