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Once more:Which browsers are used?

What are the % of different browsers you currently get?

         

NeoN

9:25 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hello!
Want to refresh the topic..
What browsers and what are the % are on your site logs?

Mine show this scenario:
IE - 85%
NN6+ - 7%
Opear6 - 1%
Opear 7 - 2%
Other - 5%

waldemar

10:44 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Sites with 50/50 mix american/german visitors:

IE 89% (4.x 1%, 5.x 29%, 6.x 70%)
Netscape 7% (4.x 32%, 5.x 40%, 7.x 28%)

Another site:

IE 93% (5.x 26%, 6.x 74%)
Netscape 6% (3.x 1%, 4.x 15%, 5.x 56%, 6.x 5%, 7.x 23%)
Opera 0,3% :-)

ShawnR

11:10 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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On an international site targeted to distributors/importers of widgets:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 82.56%

  • Explorer 6.x 77.93%
  • Explorer 5.x 21.44%
  • Explorer <5.0 0.63%

Netscape 2.97%
  • Netscape 5.x 95.65%
  • Netscape 6 4.35%

Other Netscape Compatible 2.97%
Opera 0.90%

(rest are either spiders or less than 0.5%)

I think it would be really cool if this sort of thread was kept alive in perpetuity, with everyone posting stats plus the industry on a regular basis - say monthly. The thread would become a really useful resource.

Shawn

hartlandcat

11:17 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I think it's important to specify versions, so:

Internet Explorer 6.0 -- 51.29%
Netscape 6.0+ (gecko) -- 12.83%
Internet Explorer 5.5 -- 12.48%
Internet Explorer 5.0-5.2 -- 11.80%
AOL Browser* -- 6.97%
Internet Explorer 4.0 -- 2.28%
Opera 7.0+ -- 0.64%
Netscape 4.x -- 0.60%
Internet Explorer 4.5 -- 0.17%
Opera 4.0 -- 0.04%
WebTV -- 0.04%

*the AOL browser uses whatever version of IE is installed.

But, if you're just interested in the brand...

MSIE / AOL -- 84.98%
Netscape -- 13.38%
Opera -- 0.77%
Robots -- 0.77%
WebTV -- 0.04%
Unknown -- 0.04%

hartlandcat

11:19 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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-sigh-
ShawnR is obviously not a Netscape/Gecko user as he hasn't changed the "Netscape 5.x" to "Netscape 7.0/other Gecko"

Mike_Mackin

11:44 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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[related question]

What % surf with JAVA off?

ShawnR

11:46 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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^_^

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, hartlandcat :)

Actually, I am a Netscape 7 user. (I use various browsers, and while I can't say Netscape 7 is my favourite, it does seem to have the most correct css implementation). Of course, you are right; there is no such thing as Netscape 5, but you knew what I meant, right? If not, sorry for the confusion, I just copied and pasted straight from my log analysis software.

Shawn

ShawnR

11:55 am on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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"...What % surf with JAVA off?..."

Don't know, but about 9% with JavaScript turned off.

I'd also be interested in stats people are seeing for screen resolutions. What I see is close to 50% 1024x768, close to 50% 800x600.

Shawn

hartlandcat

12:47 pm on Jun 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yes, I did know what you meant. ^_^

waldemar

10:54 am on Jun 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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About 6% without Java (german/u.s. mix, subject is event marketing and organization)...

800x600 drops to some 5% (very happy about that) with the majority having 1024x768, but about 12% are at 1280x1024.

grahamstewart

11:05 am on Jun 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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BrowserNews [upsdell.com] is a good source for brower stats (including versions and resolutions).

Note: Opera usage is deceiving as Opera can be set to identify itself as Internet Explorer (and many Opera users do this to avoid getting caught up in badly written code).

Net_Wizard

5:31 pm on Jun 9, 2003 (gmt 0)



Hey, how about Mozilla? Am I the only one seeing an increase of Mozilla(not the compatible)? It's a given though that IE is still the preferred browser.

What % surf with JAVA off?

I've been meaning to ask the same question. :) I use <script> to exute a cgi program(adverts) and was always puzzled about the low impression(not clickthrough) compared to the actual page views or even to that of the unique users. My presumption was that at most 10% would have the JS turned off.

After writing my own log-analyzer, I was shocked to find out that more or less 60% of page views were not able to trigger the <script> tag, of course excluding bots visits.

What does this mean? Does it mean that 60% of my users have their JS turned off or is there any other explanation as to why <script> were not executed?

My users were faily demographically spread and non-tech. I tested my site with IE and Mozilla, <script> works fine.

I expect that my log would somewhat look like this...

127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2003:04:05:29 -0400] "GET /normal-page1.html HTTP/1.1" 200
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2003:04:05:29 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/prog1.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2003:04:05:30 -0400] "GET /normal-page2.html HTTP/1.1" 200
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2003:04:05:30 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/prog1.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200

For every html request a corresponding cgi request would be pulled also but it's not happening 60% of the time.

Any idea?

hartlandcat

6:14 pm on Jun 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hey, how about Mozilla? Am I the only one seeing an increase of Mozilla(not the compatible)? It's a given though that IE is still the preferred browser.

Mozilla counts as Netscape by most stats programmes (usually 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0). In fact, all Gecko browsers count as one of those Netscape versions (even though 5.0 never exsisted, that's what they're most commonly recognised as).

Gecko browsers include: Netscape, Mozilla, Firebird, K-Meleon, Beonex, AOL Mac 8.0, CompuServe 7.0, Camino, Galeon, IBM Web Browser, Warpzilla, BeZilla and possibly some more that I've missed off.