Firefox vs IE stats
Posted on Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at 8:46pm. #
Matt Cutts posts his Firefox vs MSIE stats and wonders how others are doing.
I’m always dubious of these figures: for websites accessed by corporate users, they’re not telling you much, since most humourless IT departments won’t allow you to install other software. For websites that aren’t accessed at work, then clearly the amount of Firefox use will be much higher. And, as a dramatic case-in-point, see these two:
This is the browser pattern for Media UK, a media directory normally used by people within the media industry. Virgin Radio’s figures are similar (I post those to Virgin Radio’s techblog every so often).
This is the browser pattern for this website.
The difference is quite startling. What’s clear is that Firefox is almost the browser of choice for home users, but that office users are still mostly stuck on MSIE.
That is quite a startling skew. I sort of fall halfway in between – currybetdotnet gets around 23% Firfox and 72% Internet Explorer