Roger's Blog

Browser Wars

I did a post about a year ago looking at the stats from RTG visitors, so now its time to revisit that.

Firefox is continuing to gain popularity but Microsoft are still hanging on in there.
The latest figures are as follows:
Internet Explorer    71%
Firefox 19%
Opera 4%
Safari  3%
The others include PS3, PSP and Netfront.

In terms of operating systems, again its a Microsoft whitewash:
Windows 91%
Macintosh 4%
Linux 3%
Symbian 1%
Others include iPhone, iPod, PS3, PSP and Wii

Nearly 75% of you now use screen resolutions of 1024x768 or above, but the other interesting statistic here is the resurgence of much lower resolutions, presumably from phones and other portable devices.
Maybe its time to get back to our roots and develop a low bandwidth, low resolution theme again?

AOL and Ready To Go

Ok I will keep this one brief.

AOL users account for roughly 10% of the visitors to readytogo.net.

Why is it then that 90% of the users having problems seem to be AOL users?

Visitor statistics

I've been looking at some of the statistics collected by the readytogo.net webserver today and for an internet geek like myself they make interesting reading.

For instance nearly 90% of our visitors are based in the UK (no surprise there), but only just over 10% of all visitors have their systems setup to use English (en or en-gb) as opposed to the default American (en-us) which accounts for 87% of all visitors.

Of the UK visitors we seem to have something of a hotspot in Lambeth (London) which accounts for nearly 9% of all UK visitors.

For some reason Stockton on Tees and Norfolk take the next 2 spots, then come Gateshead, South Tyneside, N*wc*stle and Durham each taking roughly 3% with Sunderland only accounting for 2% of our visitors. 

Microsoft are still leading the browser wars with Internet Explorer accounting for 80% of visits although Firefox continues to gather pace now accounting for 16% of visitors.

For platforms there is no competition. MS Windows takes 97% with Macs getting 2.6% and Linux hardly featuring.