edpaffjr.comRecently I read on kottke.org about the research a few websites have done that show the increased use in Mac computers. I wouldn’t disagree with their findings, but decided to look at the numbers from my own website to see if I could notice as big a difference as they had seen. Below are the percentages for each operating system that has hit the site during a month in half year intervals.
| OS | Now | 6 mo | 1 yr | 1.5 yr | 2 yr | 2.5 yr | All-time |
| Windows | 81.1% | 88.2% | 91.8% | 90.2% | 92.8% | 90.8% | 90.5% |
| Mac | 8.7% | 9.4% | 6.7% | 8.8% | 6.9% | 8.9% | 7.6% |
| Linux | 3.2% | 1.5% | 1.4% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.4% |
| iPhone | 4.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.2% | – | – | 0.2% |
As the numbers show, I’m not seeing the large increase in Mac usage that other have seen. While I do see the drop in percentage of users using Windows systems, the only gains I see are for those using Linux and the iPhone operating system. Below are the percentages broken out for web browsers using the same time periods.
| Browser | Now | 6 mo | 1 yr | 1.5 yr | 2 yr | 2.5 yr | All-time |
| Firefox | 54.4% | 59.6% | 61.4% | 61.5% | 59.4% | 53.9% | 57.6% |
| IE | 30.0% | 29.5% | 31.7% | 32.4% | 35.5% | 40.0% | 35.5% |
| Safari | 6.1% | 5.0% | 4.6% | 5.2% | 4.5% | 5.0% | 4.9% |
| Opera | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| Chrome | 2.3% | 4.6% | 1.4% | – | – | – | 0.4% |
From this chart you can easily see the large decrease in users of Internet Explorer. Firefox has been fairly consistent, with a peak around a year ago. Safari has also been consistent, but has shown some growth recently. I’d contribute that growth the large increase in iPhone usage, as the primary web browser on the phone is Safari. Opera is another browser that has been fairly consistent, and often not talked about very much. You can see that it still has yet to peak much over 1% of the user share. And finally there is Chrome, which is the relatively new browser from Google, which is perhaps stealing a little bit from all other browsers as it slowly makes its debut.
I’m curious to see where the trends go from here, so perhaps I will post more updated statistics in another six months or so.
not sure why my lynx on freebsd isn’t showing up in your stats, oh well.
I don’t believe that lynx has javascript support. Google Analytics uses javascript code for tracking.