{IC} Stats: Operating Systems

Lincoln Russell 9 Oct, 2007 at 10:32am ET Article published in Tech

I was just reading an interesting (if slightly sensationalist) Inq story about Vista uptake based on viewership stats, so I thought I’d delve into Icrontic’s stats.

Over the last month, 94.7% of Icrontic’s traffic has been from Windows systems, and about 2.5% each from Mac and Linux. Of the Windows traffic, 82.7% of it is Windows XP, 12% is Vista, and 2.8% is 2000.

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9 Oct 2007 ~ 10:37am GHoosdum What kind of browser activity do we have?
9 Oct 2007 ~ 10:39am Thrax Our numbers match sunbelt's home numbers pretty closely.
9 Oct 2007 ~ 10:45am BuddyJ Arr. Judgin by tha numbarrrs, there be pirates here!
9 Oct 2007 ~ 10:57am Linc

GHoosdum wrote:

What kind of browser activity do we have?

52.8% IE, 41.4% FF, 3.2% Opera, 1.4% Safari.

IE is 53.5% for v7 and 46.1% for v6.

Of course, 98% of FF traffic is v2 or higher, with 2.0.0.7 logging 51.4% and 2.0.0.6 logging 38.2%.

As an aside, when designing the site, I check it in Firefox, IE6, and IE7 for pixel-by-pixel detail. I periodically check Opera and Safari for major issues.
9 Oct 2007 ~ 11:10am GHoosdum Thanks for the breakdown. Interesting numbers. Something tells me that a lot of the spyware activity correlates to the IE numbers.
9 Oct 2007 ~ 11:36am Linc

GHoosdum wrote:

Thanks for the breakdown. Interesting numbers. Something tells me that a lot of the spyware activity correlates to the IE numbers.

I did a drilldown for people viewing the SVR forum (the actual forum page, not inclusive of threads):

Firefox: 924 visits
IE: 895 visits

Intriguing - perhaps influenced by the helpers. So, I went and found the most popular SVR thread

Firefox: 814 visits
IE: 753 visits

Looks like we have more FF people in the SVR forum; what their motives for being there are, Google Analytics cannot divine.
9 Oct 2007 ~ 12:24pm GHoosdum Egad!
9 Oct 2007 ~ 12:39pm NiGHTS

Keebler wrote:

Looks like we have more FF people in the SVR forum; what their motives for being there are, Google Analytics cannot divine.

That, detective, is the right question.

/iRobot
9 Oct 2007 ~ 12:40pm Zuntar whoo Hoo, I'm part of the 2.8% using 2000. (at work that is):sad2:

Our IT guys are only upgrading users to XP pro if your machine craps out...tempting, sooo tempting.
10 Oct 2007 ~ 1:09pm drasnor I'm saddened that the "everyone else" category hasn't edged out Win2k .

-drasnor
10 Oct 2007 ~ 1:39pm Nomad Wow, strong 2.5% for me.
10 Oct 2007 ~ 2:04pm yagga hehe up to .3% may be Windows ME??? :bigggrin: