Make: Online : Makers use Firefox

Makers use Firefox

Make Pt0957
I do reports each month about how the MAKE site is doing in terms of traffic and all sorts of metrics, I don't think I've ever posted any of the interesting tidbits so I'm going to start doing that... here's one, most of you visiting the site are using Firefox (this is for the month of August vs July).

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Posted by: Jake von Slatt on September 1, 2008 at 3:43 PM

I see much the same at SteampunkWorkshop.com

Firefox 59%
IE 27%
Safari 8%
Opera 4%
Mozilla 1%

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Posted by: Aud1073cH on September 1, 2008 at 6:47 PM

If the "FireSomething" plugin ever gets updated to be compatible with FF3, you may get some weird stats listings from me.
Firesomething changes the reported browser name to be a combination of words in a database. The default lists are (a) various words, and (b) animals. It renames the browser things like: Atomiczebra, or Captainferret, etc.

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Posted by: mlange.myopenid.com on September 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM

Fairly similar with http://erroraccessdenied.com for August '08 ...

Browser, Hits, Percentage
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Firefox, 2,499, 53.74%
Internet Explorer, 1,739, 37.40%
Safari, 237, 5.10%
Opera, 123, 2.65%
Mozilla, 37, 0.80%
Konqueror, 4, 0.09%
Playstation 3, 4, 0.09%
(not set), 1, 0.02%
Camino, 1, 0.02%
Googlebot, 1, 0.02%

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Posted by: wrx22b on September 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM

been

iv been using make for years now and fire fox is all iv used

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Posted by: app on September 2, 2008 at 2:20 PM

I am seeing quite different results on what should be the blog with my most tech savvy visitors (programmers):

Browser: Hits - Percentage
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MS Internet Explorer: 19,849 - 45.3 %
Firefox: 15,282 - 34.9 %
Unknown: 3,483 - 7.9 %
Opera: 2,555 - 5.8 %
Safari: 608 - 1.3 %
Mozilla: 541 - 1.2 %
Netscape: 348 - 0.7 %
Akregator (RSS Reader): 313 - 0.7 %
Curl: 308 - 0.7 %
K-Meleon: 191 - 0.4 %
Others: 303 - 0.6 %

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Posted by: eraser on September 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM

Your forgetting rss

howdy, just throught i would put my 2cents worth, i use thunderbird as my rss and email reader which would show up as a mozilla browser but in actual fact im an ie user.

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