Browser and OS stats for Geekzone (January and February 2010)
Last year I posted a few Geekzone Browser and OS stats, mainly as a response for a request from NBR's Chris Keall. I just thought looking at the numbers early in the year (and later again this year) will be fun, so here are a couple of interesting numbers charts/tables. We are looking at numbers from more than 700,000 unique visitors in a 30 day period.
First is the % of browser by visits to Geekzone and I am surprised that both Internet Explorer and Firefox are down. A few months ago Firefox passed Internet Explorer as the most used browser to access Geekzone, but now they are both in the same % level - and both down. Not surprising is Google Chrome, which seems to be up 100% since the last time I looked at it:
Just for an idea, of those using Internet Explorer, 59.40% use IE8, 26.89% use IE7 and 13.65% still use IE6.
Next is the % of Operating System by visits to Geekzone. I haven't published these numbers before, so I can't compare. There's a distinct lack of mobile browsers here since we launched the Geekzone Mobile and we automatically redirect those mobile users to the new site. But no surprises here:
Now let's look at Geekzone mobile, which runs on its own domain and obviously has a much smaller user base - we are talking about 30,000 unique visits a month. First the distribution of mobile Operating System:
And now another interesting one, the distribution of users through mobile network access (although I have no idea where Google got that "Service Mobile Corporation" from, but it seems WHOIS for those visitors don't have a specific mobile operator name). From here I see a few more Telecom users access our site from a mobile device than Vodafone users do:
UPDATE: someone pointed out that "Service Provider Corporation" is how Telecom is identified in some speedtest.net reports, so if this is the case it pushes Telecom mobile users numbers even higher than those from Vodafone.
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Comment by AJ, on 17-Feb-2010 14:20
Service Provider Corporation refers to the 166.0.0.0/9 block that is assigned and managed by Wireless Data Service Provider Corp (wdspco.org). This was an attempt at managing cellular IP space a while back -- and Telecom's CDMA services use 166.179.0.0/16, so most likely (but not exclusively - there are a few US telcos as members) those will be T3G users.
Comment by Ragnor, on 17-Feb-2010 14:38
Surprisingly high use of IE for a "geek" site, especially IE6.. I guess it's that old case of people browsing from locked down computers at work.
Chrome is really going to start moving now that v4 has extensions/addons in the public version.
Comment by SepticSceptic, on 20-Feb-2010 12:26
As Ragnor mentioned, I have to mask Opera as IE to allow OPera to be used at my place of employ. The mask presents Opera as IE6 to the corporate firewall. Even then, some pages that are made up of a conglomerate of other pages don't always display properly. A bit frustrating.
Comment by DS248, on 21-Feb-2010 11:13
What does access via wireless access points show up as. Perhaps Telecom run more wireless access points than Vodafone?
I just tried from my mobile via a hotel wireless connection in UK - got directed to the mobile site (while my PC was connected via the same wireless connection to the main site).
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Comment by Fraktul, on 17-Feb-2010 13:07
Ha, O2 UK is probably completely me - I get bored on the tube when its overground from Earls Court to Hammersmith sometimes :)