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Ask HN: What's the Browser Distribution for your site?

48 points by dannyr ↗ HN
My site is Launchset.com. According to Google Analytics, here's the breakdown of browsers used by my users.

1. Chrome 37.50%

2. Firefox 34.53%

3. Safari 22.50%

4. Internet Explorer 3.59%

5. Mozilla 1.09%

6. Opera 0.31%

7. Camino 0.16%

8. Konqueror 0.16%

9. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.16

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drhowarddrfine
Interesting. I have two fast food restaurant sites and, from memory, IE is about the same but most of the rest is Firefox. I know we have that many IE6 users because they're next door to a huge financial institution which is also their largest customer.
topbanana
You have an extraordinarily high proportion of Chrome users.
dannyr
I do. I just launched last week and I kind of launched here on Hacker News.
DarkShikari
The last 500 visitors to my blog ( http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/ ), batched by major version:

28.80% Firefox 3.5.X

24.00% Firefox 3.0.X

11.60% Chrome 0.2

9.80% Safari 1.2

7.60% Mozilla 5.0

7.20% Opera 9.X

3.80% MSIE 7.0

3.00% MSIE 8.0

2.60% MSIE 6.0

0.40% Konqueror 4.2

0.40% Firefox 1.5.0

0.40% Firefox 2.0.0

0.20% Opera 5.02

0.20% Opera 4.2.1

Speaking of which, I should probably upgrade from the crappy stat counter thing I'm using to Google Analytics (edit: and done).

snprbob86
Please include user counts to assure us of statistical significance :-)
spencerfry
http://www.carbonmade.com

1. Firefox 48.11%

2. Internet Explorer 25.20%

3. Safari 20.09%

4. Chrome 4.28%

5. Opera 1.89%

Our users are very design centric, so IE being at only 25% makes sense.

Ardit20
Wow, internet explorer 3.59%? Your site must be targeted at techno geeks?
Ardit20
Internet Explorer 62.19%

Firefox 28.18%

Safari 4.77%

Chrome 2.48%

Opera 1.98%

Mozilla 0.11%

Camino 0.06%

Opera Mini 0.06%

Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.05%

Netscape 0.04%

I_got_fifty
Firefox 100% (It's not live yet, I'm the only user :-)
nimbix 

    1. Firefox 438,766  65.61%	
    2. IE      191,652  28.66%	
    3. Chrome   19,911   2.98%	
    4. Opera    10,686   1.60%	
    5. Safari    4,979   0.74%
This is not a tech-oriented site; but it is mainly aimed at young people (15-25).
Ardit20
Funny as mines aimed at young people and it seems we have the users in direct symmetry regarding firefox and ie.
nimbix
We're based in Slovenia, a country with a very high percentage of FF users. We used to be in 2. place, right after Finland, but I'm not sure about current stats. Why FF is so popular here is a different question. My theory is that it has a lot to do with every forum over here having a tech support section and that the first advice everyone gets there is "install FF"! :)
dannyr
This is interesting.

I would think there would be more Safari than Chrome. A lot of young people use Macs. It's possible they chose to use Firefox instead.

nimbix
The site is very locally oriented (it's a community site featuring news/events/discussions/image galleries for a small city) and the only "Macs" we're seeing around here are iPods.
Ardit20
Why do you want to know anyway?
huhtenberg
We launched one of the projects recently and ran a short campaign on StumbleUpon. This generated ~1500 uniques out of 2000 we had so far. Respective browser distribution is as follows:

  82%  	Firefox
  9% 	Internet Explorer
  4% 	Safari
  2% 	Opera
  1% 	Mozilla
  1% 	Chrome
  ..
mrkurt
http://arstechnica.com (or A.R.T.S Technical, if you're our ad ops people)

  Firefox   43.97%
  IE        23.83%
  Safari    21.43%
  Chrome    5.95%
  Opera     2.03%
  Camino    0.18%
  Konqueror 0.10%
Safari on the iPhone accounts for 1.8% of our traffic.
chrisrhee
From the past 30 days on our hip-hop record label site, http://QN5.com

  Firefox: 56%
  IE: 20.7% (IE 6: 2.9%)
  Safari: 11.9%
  Chrome: 5.6%
  Opera: 2.7%
  Mobile: 2% (mostly iPhones)
  Mozilla: 1%
  Playstation, Wii, etc: 0.1%
jeresig
http://jquery.com/

3.3mil visitors / 1.57mil uniques (for this last 30 days)

    Firefox	61.51% 	
    IE		15.60% 	
    Safari	10.89% 	
    Chrome	7.56% 	
    Opera	3.15% 	
    Mozilla	1.02%
All else less than 0.06%
timdorr
What's the breakdown of IE usage?
c1sc0
I'm interested in seeing mobile stats (iPhone vs. the rest?) of some sites. Anyone care to share those numbers? More particularly: is the 70% iPhone number I get from my stats realistic and how does that breakdown change once a mobile-specific site is launched?
flooha
http://flooha.com

Firefox 66.64%

Chrome 11.28%

Safari 10.99%

Internet Explorer 6.56%

Opera 2.10%

Mozilla 1.56%

Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.36%

Camino 0.18%

Konqueror 0.11%

Opera Mini 0.07%

SeaMonkey 0.07%

(not set) 0.04%

webkit 0.04%

abstractbill
Justin.TV:

Internet Explorer 56.97%

Firefox 32.17%

Chrome 4.78%

Safari 3.84%

Opera 1.54%

Playstation 0.42%

Mozilla 0.15%

SeaMonkey 0.02%

Mozilla Compatible Agent 0.02%

Camino 0.02%

peterlai
Why are such a high percentage of your users using Internet Explorer? And Playstation? What?
jmtulloss
My guess is that it's because Justin.TV appeals to the mainstream, unlike a lot of the technical sites that are putting their numbers up.
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jlgosse
My site, http://www.mobilitea.com/blog/ is geared towards both software developers and BlackBerry users!

1. Firefox: 46.74% 2. Internet Explorer: 35.35% 3. Chrome: 7.23% 4. Safari: 6.04% 5. BlackBerry 9530: 2.01% 6. Opera: 1.01%

swolchok
Looks like not just geeks, but young people in general, use Firefox. As hoped, Chrome tends to take market share from IE, not Firefox.
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charlesmarshall
http://subaru.co.uk (horribly put together site, we didnt make it!)

1. Internet Explorer 80.59% 7 - 55.17% 8 - 26.13% 6 - 18.68% 2. Firefox 15.08% 3. Chrome 2.41% 4. Safari 1.16% 5. Opera 0.36%

http://tinyjs.com

1. Firefox 65.83% 2. Internet Explorer 12.21% 7 - 49.58% 8 - 38.48% 6 - 11.86% 3. Safari 9.79% 4. Chrome 8.09% 5. Opera 3.02%

catone
http://www.railsforum.com/

  1. Firefox - 65.33% 	
  2. Safari - 16.56% 	
  3. IE - 7.84% 	
  	7.0 - 46.53% 	
  	8.0 - 28.97% 	
  	6.0 - 23.69%
  4. Chrome - 5.42% 	
  5. Mozilla - 2.36% 	
  6. Opera - 2.06%
dannyr
Not surprised that Rails guys use Firefox and Safari.

catone: How do I get in touch with you? This is about that beta management system thread you posted months ago. I actually built one. email me at danny - at - launchset.com

SwellJoe
http://www.virtualmin.com; our audience is heavily Open Source oriented, and it obviously skews results heavily. This represents roughly 60,000 visitors.

1. Firefox 64.45%

2. Internet Explorer 17.22%

3. Safari 6.95%

4. Chrome 4.94%

5. Opera 3.37%

6. Mozilla 2.35%

7. Konqueror 0.30%

8. SeaMonkey 0.17%

9. Camino 0.11%

10. Opera Mini 0.03%