Browser Wars »
Being that I've only had this host for a few days, and that there was an expected yet unexpected spike in traffic recently, I figured it would be worth looking at the stats to see how things were going. Naturally, I've attracted a bit of Mozilla (and Firefox) attention in the last couple of days. No surprise there at all. What did surprise me was how that traffic was split up into different browsers.
For the first time in recent memory, a browser that is not some version of IE has found its way to the top of the list. Very impressive. In the last 5 days or so, it seems that Mozilla (no version given) has topped all other browsers, with 35.3% of the traffic. Including other Mozilla-based browsers, that number increases to 36.9%. Second place goes to IE 6.0, with 32.6% (all IE versions combine for 39.4% of traffic).
As to the other browsers, Safari rings in with an impressive 3.9%, NetNewsWire 1.6%, Netscape 1.0%, Opera 0.8%, Galeon 0.3% and Konqueror 0.2%. A handful of others are scattered about with less than 0.1% of traffic. I'm assuming that since NetNewsWire shows up in the list that the 14.9% of traffic attributed to unknown browsers is actually due to those reading via an aggregator of some sort.
Naturally, this breakdown may vary on other sites, and as interest in the Bloglines Toolkit for Mozilla winds down, Mozilla traffic may taper off a bit. But I still think it's an interesting exercise. While giving too much weight to Mozilla is probably a bad idea, giving too much weight to some of those other browsers is probably a bad idea too. I, for one, would not have expected to see Safari with nearly 4% of the traffic. Now I'm going to have to get a Mac for testing!
