Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/jun04_browsers.gif The chart above shows the different browsers used to access Google over the last 3 years. Not really what I would have expected to have seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndhand Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 netscape?what the fuck is netscape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 This is no suprise, I don't understand why you posted, Sigma. Of course, IE is the most used browser because it's bundled with Microsoft operating systems. I doubt that your average computer user even knows what a browser is anyway, never mind the fact that they can change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownstyle Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 This is no suprise, I don't understand why you posted, Sigma. Of course, IE is the most used browser because it's bundled with Microsoft operating systems. I doubt that your average computer user even knows what a browser is anyway, never mind the fact that they can change it.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL thats true...I deal with technicians out at peoples houses every day.. And most of them dont even have a clue!! :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 This is no suprise, I don't understand why you posted, Sigma. Of course, IE is the most used browser because it's bundled with Microsoft operating systems. I doubt that your average computer user even knows what a browser is anyway, never mind the fact that they can change it. Yeah but it shows that people are giving up on other browsers and choosing IE 6. I would have thought the lines for other browsers would have been going up not down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownstyle Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Yeah but it shows that people are giving up on other browsers and choosing IE 6. I would have thought the lines for other browsers would have been going up not down.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think the lines are going up as more and more people are connected to the net as time goes by...especially in the last 3 years!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 And that explains the lines for all the other browsers but IE pointing downwards?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownstyle Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Yes. Basically the more new users on the internet in the last 3 years! Being new they automatically use the default browser while not even knowing about alternatives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 That doesn't make any sense mate. If there's more people on the Internet then no browser should decline apart from out of date versions when people upgrade. I think once people install SP2 then even less will switch from IE because all the activex and scripting holes have been plugged. No more browser hijackings and diallers and shit, which is a big part of what made people switch in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 it would be useful if we knew what the values and scale the y-axis was. if it was a percentage or number of hits etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownstyle Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I dont make sense. Well....Only on my day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Where are these figures from anyway, just google? As far as I know, more people are using Firefox than ever, numbers are going up all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 It depends what statistics you read. If you read the ones on W3C's site, Mozilla users account for 11% of the visitors. Then again, it's a specialist site so people into browsers and technology are more likely to visit. The Google one is a good representation because it gets about 150 million hits per day and they will be people from all walks of life and with varying interests. No other site can say that really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownstyle Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Why dont we take a look at the visitors using THIS site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 Can you post the list without all the ... appearing in the names of the browsers? Out of interest, how many page hits do we get here per day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 I don't think that pie chart really means anything on a site so small. We only have 94 members! That's why I posted the Google one, because it's the biggest cross section of people in the sample. Compare ours to SOS's who have 4 times as many members as us: - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevebluck/images/SOSStats.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 THAT GRAPH IS SHIT There's nothing on the Axis! What do those represent? Percentages? Absolute population? My job involves working with stats all day, I can look at most graphs and pick out trends very easily. But you need to know what you are looking at, that graph could mean several things, such as a growth in Google usage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 Google don't publish exact figures. Not many companies offer their figures out to the general public. The graph does show the number of page requests per browser type though. Even without figures it shows the trends and I guess that's kind of the point of it. Google's archive of top/bottom 10s can be found here: - http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/archive.html You can see the top 10 most searched terms, which OS was used and stuff. Quite interesting. There's also a good article about the Google browser graph here: - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM...mag_040903.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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