Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2014
January 2, 2015 3 Comments
I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2014 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a few exciting developments in store for 2015, including a major code update that we originally had planned for 2013. A few highlights: LQ ISO recently surpassed 55,000,000 Linux downloads. AndroidQuestions.org and ChromeOSQuestions.org continue to grow. Outside The Questions Network, I think we’ve really hit our stride on Bad Voltage.
As has become tradition, here are the browser and OS statistics for the main LQ site for all of 2014 (2013 stats for comparison).
| Browsers | |
|---|---|
| Chrome | 45.34% |
| Firefox | 39.00% |
| Internet Explorer | 8.12% |
| Safari | 4.57% |
| Opera | 1.29% |
| Android Browser | 0.56% |
A big change here, as Chrome has finally supplanted Firefox as the most used browser at LQ (and has done so quite handily).
| Operating Systems | |
|---|---|
| Windows | 52.58% |
| Linux | 32.32% |
| Macintosh | 10.62% |
| Android | 2.42% |
| iOS | 1.44% |
Linux usage has remained fairly steady, while OS X usage is now over 10% for the first time ever.
I’d also like to take this time to thank each and every LQ member. You are what make the site great; without you, we simply wouldn’t exist. I’d like to once again thank the LQ mod team, whose continued dedication ensures that things run as smoothly as they do. Don’t forget to vote in the 2014 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, which recently opened.
–jeremy
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More people visiting LQ use windows than Linux??
The bizarre meter’s needle just slammed against the stop.
To be fair, the Linux usage at LQ is _substantially_ higher than it is on the web generally speaking.
–jeremy
More fairness: I come to LQ from work, and at work I’m forced to use Windows. I suspect that I’m not alone in this.
(And I’m forced to use Windows to use exactly one program: Outlook. Suggestions for alternatives that integrate seamlessly are solicited.)