Chrome Overtakes IE
I was just looking at the analytics for http://pinaxproject.com/ and noticed the following browser stats for the last month:
Firefox 68.79% Safari 13.84% Chrome 5.88% Internet Explorer 4.31% Opera 3.26%
What stood out to me is that more people have accessed the website using Chrome than IE!
Comments (7)
Dougal Matthews on Nov. 10, 2008:
I would be interested to see those figures compared to the past.
Is it mainly Firefox users that have changed over?
I'm guessing it might be hard to tell anyway as you will be likely to have more traffic since django 1.0 and djangocon etc.
Andreas on Nov. 11, 2008:
This is awesome! I think it doesn't matter whatever the chrome users comes from ie or firefox because interface developers shouldnt wory about another browser anyway; in the upcoming years we will se more focus on browser renders and js renders instead of different browsers.
James Tauber on Nov. 11, 2008:
It's hard to do a comparison over time because pinaxproject.com is so new. But looking at the month of September tells an almost identical story although Chrome actually higher and Opera lower than the last month.
Something like jtauber.com would be more useful for the story over time, although it's a broader audience and IE is actually still ahead of Safari and Chrome there (although way behind Firefox still).
I might go generate some graphs.
James Tauber on Nov. 11, 2008:
Of course, it's also hard to do a comparison over time because Chrome only started registering in early September :-)
Brian on Nov. 11, 2008:
Is this measured in terms of page views or is it measured in terms of unique users?
Brian on Nov. 11, 2008:
To add to my last comment:
Maybe the Google developers on the AppEngine team are looking at integrating Pinax into AppEngine in some way. That would explain a large number of page views from a small number of users using Google Chrome.
Last Modified: Nov. 10, 2008
Author: James Tauber
Eduardo Padoan on Nov. 10, 2008:
When Chrome appeared, a lot of people questioned whether this would just 1) steal market share from Firefox instead of IE, and 2) be just one more browser to develop to (making web developer's lifes more miserable).
And while I agreed on a first momment, thinking more later, I realized that if it turns out to drive more progress on the web, 1) it could take 99% of Firefox users with no problems, 2) and would be a good motive to give up our greed a litle :)