MrHanky's Journal: And we thought Firefox was taking over for MSIE

Dagbladet.no, Norway's second largest website, with 187 million pageviews last month, released some interesting statistics for browser use. This is an ordinary tabloid newspaper, so users should be pretty ordinary too. It seems like Mozilla/Firefox are less popular than most of us thought -- at least in Norway:

1. MSIE 6.0, 85.37 %
2. MSIE 5.5, 3.31 %
3. MSIE 5.01, 2.09 %
4. Opera 7.54, 1.54 %
5. MSIE 5.0, 1.40 %
6. Mozilla Firefox 0.10, 0.89 %
7. Opera 7.23, 0.66 %
8. Mozilla Firefox 0.9, 0.65 %
9. Opera 7.50, 0.46 %
10. Netscape 5.0, 0.40 %

I find it more interesting that OS X still hasn't taken over older Mac OSes, and is less popular than Linux. But even put together, the "alternative" OSes are almost statistically insignificant:

1. Windows XP, 62.14 %
2. Windows 2000, 22.42 %
3. Windows 98, 7.42 %
4. Windows NT, 4.0 3.82 %
5. Windows ME, 1.96 %
6. MacOS, 0.78 %
7. Linux, 0.60 %
8. MacOS X, 0.40 %
9. Windows 95, 0.35 %
10. Macintosh PPC, 0.04 %

Those stats are misleading

[Quantum Jim]

That's hardly scientific. How were the stats compiled? Over what period of time? For which pages or files? What were the instantaneous stat trends? As an engineering major, I can't accept them as anything but a diversion. Sorry. :-/

Re:Those stats are misleading

[MrHanky]

Scientific? From a tabloid? Of course not! Yes, I know they are misleading -- I expect MSIE to be inflated due to the fact that people browse newssites both from work and from home (people use MSIE at work, where they aren't allowed or don't care to install their preferred browser), but even if every MSIE user was counted twice, it would still mean that the other browsers were much less popular.

The stats were compiled from the first 12 days of October, apparently from all pageviews on the site (but the tex