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Site Use Question (for the geeks)

On another part of the Forum, leaves of grass asked: "What can thee say about Quakers and browsers? What's the breakdown of IE/Firefox at your site?"

Hi Leaves: interesting questions for us tech geeks. I assume you're working on a site design? Let's see, December percentages are:

Browsers: 42%: MSIE, 38% Firefox, 16% Safari, <2% Chrome. Of MSIE users, 70% are 7.0, 28% 6.0.
Operating-system: 71% Windows, 26% Mac and 3% Linux. Of Windows users, 75% are XP, the rest mostly Vista.
Screen resolutions: the most common is 1024x768 (37% of visitors) and that only 3.5% of visitors are coming in with lower resolutions.

That's pretty high Firefox numbers but remember that compared to other sites QuakerQuaker has relatively few visitors who spend a lot of time here. They tend to be a bit more technically savvy than usual.

QuakerRanter has more MSIE users (48%) at the expense of Safari (only 8%), with Firefox being the same (38%).
A Quaker education site I have access to has a similiarly higher MSIE use (51%) at the expense of Firefox (31%), with Safari up at 17%. I also have access to a mainstream business site that relies on Google Adwords and they're 70% MSIE, 25% Firefox and 8% Safari.

Hope this is interesting, I'd be happy to email you specific reports if you want, I have no secrets about all this. It's dated by now but I posted about QuakerQuaker users back in Fifth Month 2007.

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Permalink Reply by leavesofgrass on 1st mo. 2, 2009 at 3:44pm

Martin, thanks for being so generous with info. I didn't realize you had previously posted on the subject.

The difference in browser use between the WEQs (weighty-e-Quakers) and mainstream users is pretty striking, don't you think?

You may be amused to know what is going on in the back of my mind. I am thinking what a wonderful wonderful world wide web we could have if Internet Explorer would just expire, wither, vanish, and blow away. (And allow me to drive a stake through its black little heart for good measure.)

We could have a little uptick in Opera use to give the "good" browsers a little competition. (Hmmm, Opera didn't even figure into your careful notes.)

I wish!

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Permalink Reply by Martin Kelley on 1st mo. 2, 2009 at 4:36pm

Ha! Don't even let yourself dream about MSIE disappearing. It's not going to happen anytime this century. I hate it too, of course. I can spend hours on a project just designing around MSIE flaws, fixing things that display properly on every other browser. I call it the Microsoft tax! Fortunately, Microsoft's the only software company with enough market share that it feels it can ignore standards and everything else usually works fine. Since you like obscurities: Camino's at 0.90%, Opera at 0.31%, Netscape 0.19%, SeaMonkey 0.12% and Konquerer 0.03%.

leavesofgrass said:

You may be amused to know what is going on in the back of my mind. I am thinking what a wonderful wonderful world wide web we could have if Internet Explorer would just expire, wither, vanish, and blow away. (And allow me to drive a stake through its black little heart for good measure.) We could have a little uptick in Opera use to give the "good" browsers a little competition. (Hmmm, Opera didn't even figure into your careful notes.)

I wish!

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