My stats seem to be broken

[andrewducker]

So I was looking at some browser market share stats to see how Google Chrome was doing, and noticed that IE6+IE7+IE8 is now at 44.8%, while Firefox is now at 45.5%.

Which would be the first time that Firefox has been the leading browser.

Until I realised that the stats I was looking at were for w3schools.com, a website for people who are interested in web development.

Popping to some more normal stats showed that Firefox was on 18% versus 76% for IE6+7.

Oh well, the rejoicing can wait for a year or two.

Comments

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

In some other markets, Firefox has been leading by huge margins for years.

For whatever reason, it is the browser of choice in Germany (for example.)

[matgb]

some more normal stats showed that Firefox

Actually, they refer to some product called FireFox. I thus have reason to doubt their statistics, if they can't be arsed to spell it right on a data release they're not error checking properly.

But yeah. Sites regularly used by web residents (like thee and me) show high Fx usage, sites that are used by normal people are full of IE using office drones and casual users happy with the default.

If the web's a highway, then your computer is the car, the car comes with a crappy stereo. For a lot of people, that's enough, but people that drive all the time or that care about audio performance upgrade it smartish. IE is the Ford cassette radio of our time.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox as my main browser and would love to get rid of IE. The same goes in the office, we tred to get rid of IE, but it is still not feasible. Unfortunately, there are still a number of websites that do not function properly in other browsers. The Royal Mail is the main one, which unfortunately many of our staff need to use to book deliveries etc.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I have IETab running in Firefox so that I can read some pages...