Browser Stats - July 2004

[David]

Browser Stats for CADTutor - July 2004

Just thought you may be interested to see the latest browser statistics for CADTutor:

Most active browsers by brand preference<TABLE>

<TR><TD>MSIE </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>72706</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(83.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Unknown </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>3594</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(4.1% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Netscape Gecko </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>3540</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(4.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Mozilla Compatible </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>2929</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(3.3% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Robot </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>2277</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(2.6% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Opera </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>1248</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(1.4% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Netscape </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>984</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(1.1% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Mozilla </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>270</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(0.3% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>Java </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>37</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(0.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>WebTV </TD><TD>with</TD><TD ALIGN=RIGHT>8</TD><TD>sessions</TD><TD ALIGN=Right><span class="copy1">(0.0% of all sessions)</TD></TR>

</TABLE>
I guess there are no surprises here and the trend we've seen before continues. If you compare these to the January 2004 results (http://www.websitearchitecture.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=182), you may notice that IE is slightly lower and most of the other "minority" browsers are slightly higher. Not a trend that would be considered statistically significant but maybe a sign of changes ahead.

[francis]

This echoes what's happening on the Web (http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39122222,00.htm) at the moment, which is good to see.

In an interesting turn of events, the Mozilla Foundation has announced the Security Bug Bounty Program (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-08-02.html). If you find a security vulnerability in a Moz product and report it before it gets "out there" you get $500 and a free T shirt.

[James]

but you've already got a Mozilla T shirt Francis

[francis]

And the FireFox one

[David]

Hmm, of course there is always a flipside to popularity. I guess security isn't just a problem for IE - security advisory. (http://secunia.com/advisories/10856/)

[francis]

Compare and contrast (http://secunia.com/product/11/)!

[David]

Oh sure. The point I was making is that the greater the popularity, the more attractive the target. There's no point looking for security vulnerabilities in software that no one uses. The fact that there are an increasing number of vulnerabilities being discovered in Moz probably means that it is becoming more popular.

[francis]

Yeah, that point has been made quite a lot recently on the Web. So far it's quite heartening that there haven't been any "highly" or "extremely" critical issues with Moz. Hopefully it'll stay that way