State of browsers on Geekzone March 2013

It's almost one year since I've posted the last State of Browser on Geekzone March 2012, so it's time for the annual update. These charts are based on more than 600,000 visits (and a couple million page views) to Geekzone during the 30 day period ending 12th March 2013.

Since last year Chrome usage on Geekzone went up from 30% to 40%. Both Firefox and Internet Explorer had a very small dip, and Safari a very small gain. Firefox went down from 28% to 24% and Internet Explorer from 26% to 23%.

Now for New Zealand-specific numbers. Chrome went up from 30% to 39%, Internet Explorer is the second most used browser with 24% (down from 29%) and Firefox is the third most used browser with 22% (down from 27%).

Similar to the last update, here are two charts showing New Zealand only browser usage split in business hours and after hours:

And here is the split of Internet Explorer versions. Internet Explorer 9 is getting strong going up from 43% to 50%, but Internet Explorer 10 is gaining traction going up from 0% to 10% in the last twelve months. Internet Explorer Explorer 6 practically disappeared with only a couple of hundred visits to the site out of almost 70,000 Internet Explorer visits in total. Internet Explorer had a big dip from 43% to 30% but Internet Explorer 7 remains around the same number:

In the last few months I have been running some RUM services on Geekzone, including Torbit and a beta version of Pingdom RUM. So here is for the first time the fastest and slowest of the top three browsers on Geekzone. About 30% of Geekzone visitors use ad blockers, and I'd expect Firefox and Chrome users to use ad blockers more than Internet Explorer users. These numbers could be a bit shifted to those two browsers:

I hope you found this post informative. If you want some more specific measurements please post in the comments.

UPDATE: As requested, here is an OS distribution: