Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2009
January 6, 2010 2 Comments
First, I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year. 2009 was another great year for LQ and we have a ton in store for 2010. You may have noticed this blog has been quiescent lately. While I have been twittering regularly, the terse and off the cuff nature of twitter is markedly different than most blog entries here (the conference based live-blogging entries aside). I’d like to resume regular blogging in 2010, even if the frequency isn’t what it once was. 2010 looks to be another interesting year for Linux and Open Source, so finding material to blog about shouldn’t be too onerous.
I’ll finish this post off with the browser and OS statistics for the main LQ site for all of 2009, which I like to post after the conclusion of each year. Here’s the post from 2008, for comparison.
| Browsers | |
|---|---|
| Firefox | 64.28% |
| Internet Explorer | 18.23% |
| Mozilla | 4.80% |
| Chrome | 4.30% |
| Opera | 3.75% |
| Safari | 2.88% |
| Konqueror | .98% |
Note that Firefox is actually down .16% while Chrome passed Opera, Safari and Konqueror in its first year. Firefox versions are once again all over the map, with 3.0.10 being the only version above 10% of FF users at 10.70%. No version of 3.5 comes in the top five, but 3.5.3 is the most used in that branch at 6.48% (with 3.5.5 hot on its heels at 6.37%).
| Operating Systems | |
|---|---|
| Windows | 52.73% |
| Linux | 40.94% |
| Macintosh | 5.43% |
That’s right; both Windows and Linux are slightly down from last year, while Mac is slightly up. The most used mobile OS is the iPhone at .12%, with Android coming in at .02%.
–jeremy
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The LQ forums have a gadget which finds and displays distro information: I wonder if which-distro-used statistics are gathered? (that’s actually why I came here ;)
Rich,
We don’t gather any distro-related stats at this time.
–jeremy