lucy24 - 7:14 am on Nov 30, 2012 (gmt 0)

This website has 87% "new visitors," so it should be a unbiased sampling of the web.

Is it a general-interest site? Nothing that would for example be especially appealing to Mac users? (This doesn't necessarily mean a site about Mac or Apple.)

The only stats I've got handly are for a slightly atypical site. The most recent figures (mid-October) are:

MSIE 36%
Firefox 23%
Chrome 18%
Safari 22%
Opera <1%
and (overlapping) mobiles 11%. The Safari number includes at least half of the mobiles.

Over the past year:

MSIE 41%
Firefox 22%
Chrome 17%
Safari 18%
(Opera <1%)
and mobiles 8%

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So MSIE has been going down, Chrome still rising, Safari soaring-- mostly thanks to the mobiles. Those have gone from 4% to 11% in the course of a year-- and that's on a site that I would call not just mobile-unfriendly but bordering on mobile-hostile.
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My own site meanwhile is more than half webkit. But that's definitely because of site content.

:: irreversible drift here because of newly discovered* amazingly wonderful feature in piwik ::


* I don't know if it has been there all along. I just discovered it. For any one page you can look up where visitors came from and where they went. This is far too entrancing for health.