By popular demand (okay, a few readers have asked recently), here are the top 10 browser/OS and individual operating systems by percentage for MacDailyNews for September, October and November 2007 (Nov. 1, 12:00am – Nov. 20, 3:30pm EST):
MacDailyNews.com Browser/OS stats:
1. Safari / Macintosh – Sept: 60.77%, Oct: 59.89%, Nov: 58.77%
2. Internet Explorer / Windows – Sept: 12.81%, Oct: 13.17%, Nov:12.52%
3. Firefox / Windows – Sept: 11.02%, Oct: 11.39%, Nov: 10.85%
4. Firefox / Macintosh – Sept: 9.65%, Oct: 9.76%, Nov: 9.23%
5. Safari / iPhone – Sept: N/A. Oct: N/A, Nov: 2.86%
6. Safari / Windows – Sept: 1.61%, Oct: 1.63%, Nov: 1.61%
7. Camino / Macintosh – Sept: 1.32%, Oct: 1.26%, Nov: 1.15%
8. Mozilla Compatible Agent / Macintosh – Sept: 0.70%, Oct: 0.69%, Nov: 0.67%
9. Firefox / Linux – Sept: 0.45%, Oct: 0.53%, Nov: 0.48%
10. Safari / iPod – Sept: N/A, Oct: N/A, Nov: 0.35%
10. Opera / Windows -Sept: 0.36%, Oct: 0.36%, Nov: 0.35%
MacDailyNews.com Operating System stats:
1. Macintosh – Sept: 73.03%, Oct: 72.12%, Nov: 70.33%
– Intel – Sept: 54.46%, Oct: 56.28%, Nov: 60.51%
– PPC – Sept: 45.54%, Oct: 43.72%, Nov: 39.49%
2. Windows – Sept: 26.00%, Oct.: 26.75%, Nov: 25.48%
– XP – Sept: 84.63%, Oct: 84.88%, Nov: 85.24%
– Vista – Sept: 7.75%, Oct: 7.87%, Nov: 7.13%
– 2000 – Sept: 5.91%, Oct: 5.55%, Nov: 5.25%
3. iPhone – Sept: N/A, Oct: N/A, Nov: 2.86%
4. Linux – Sept: 0.59%, Oct: 0.65%, Nov: 0.59%
5. iPod – Sept: N/A, Oct: N/A, Nov: 0.35%
6. (not set) – Sept: 0.31%, Oct: 0.34%, Nov: 0.30%
7. SunOS – Sept: 0.03%, Oct: 0.03, Nov: 0.03%
8. PalmOS – Sept: N/A, Oct: N/A, Nov: 0.02%
9. Playstation 3 – Sept: 0.01, Oct: 0.01%, Nov: 0.01%
10. SymbianOS – Sept: N/A, Oct: N/A, Nov: 0.01%
MacDailyNews Note: Obviously, we serve a specific market and type of user. Therefore, we have rather different stats that a general-use site. The world would be a less frustrating place for personal computer users if general-use sites matched our stats. Regardless, the trends are what are important, not the actual percentages which always vary based upon what’s being measured and who’s doing the measuring (as always – think Mac market share). The important questions are: what’s going up, what’s going down, and what’s going nowhere?
When you look at the trends, a few things jump right out:
• iPhone and iPod have emerged strongly this month. Mac OS’s and Safari’s “drops” are really increases based on the emergence of iPhone+iPod (OS X- and Safari-based).
• Linux remains a pipe-dream outside of the data center. (It’s been flatlined around 0.60% forever. iPod will likely pass it here soon.)
• PPC continues to lose ground steadily to Intel-powered Macs. (In April 2007, Intel had 45.36% vs. PPC with 54.64%.)
• Vista is losing ground to the over 6-year-old XP in share of Windows sufferers. (We looked back to take a closer look at Vista: 3.96% in April, 4.50% in May, 5.48% in June, 5.77% in July, 6.04% in August, then 7.75% in September, 7.87% in October, and down to 7.13% in November so far).
• Safari for Windows (released in June 2007) has flatlined. (July was the high point at 2.16%).
Readers are often surprised that a quarter of MacDailyNews readers are using Windows. From anecdotal and/or via traffic stats, we know that many of those visitors are Mac users who are stuck on some Windows PC at work and/or school and also a significant percentage come to us from Google News and similar services.
Primero! (but nothing to say)
I for one log in from the home office via Safari on my Intel iMac as well as via my iPhone, and when I do commute to the office, via firefox or IE on the windows machine there.
When the majority of Mac users are on Intel processors, we will see the commencement of iTMS Rentals, perhaps even HD.
Why? Because EFI will be tapped for the copy protection/prevention of screen recording software, video out etc.
That’s my prediction anyway.
just wait til’ itms becomes ivms
oh verily
Wow, who could argue with statistics on OS/browser prevalence from the logs of an Apple fanboy site? Alert the media!
http://blogs.wsj.com/holidaysales/2007/11/20/round-one-whats-on-your-gift-list/
Reality,
The trends cannot be disputed. The source, as long as it’s constant (which in this case it is) is inconsequential.
I’m pretty shocked at iPhone’s share!
And in other news:
Almost 100% of people in BMW service centers own BMWs. BMW refused to comment on how unreliable this made their cars look compared to other vehicles.
The majority of people who watch basketball games like watching basketball.
The majority of people browsing in Apple stores are considering buying an Apple product.
Most people who live in America are Americans.
However in a shocking difference, in France, most people are French.
And finally 100% of Mac OS X users use Mac OS X.
what about visiting from a Wii (Opera)?
And in other news,
You’ve missed the point completely.
You must be one of the 25-percenters.
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All I know is that my iPhone crashes every time I even attempt loading a page…
You’ll get a spike in visits if you can fix that!
Amazing that 5% of windows surfers are still on 2000. IMHO the best OS Microsft ever made…in many respects even better than some versions of OS X.
I’ll bet a good few Windows users are those needing to see what they are up against…
I am one of those that is stuck checking in on MDN via a PC (@work). Sorry for screwing up the stats but I have no choice….
MDN,
You’d get many more hits from me and my iPhone if you’d make the site more iPhone-friendly. Yours is the only site that consistently either does not load at all or takes 3-4x longer to load than any other site (while using EDGE)!
I can’t tell you how frustrating this is…and my iPhone ain’t too happy either.
Help!
I have a general-use web site. Most of my traffic is in English-speaking countries, but every country with electricity has hit my web site. I’ve had requests for permission to translate parts of it into Turkish, Urdu, and Punjabi. (I’m as surprised as you are!)
According to my server logs for 2007 to date:
Windows’ market share has declined by 2% from 94.48 to 92.49. That’s a lot of market share considering that a very large percentage of my readers are accessing my site from businesses, as well as from military and government installations that are locked into Windows.
Macintosh has increased 24% from 4.67 to 5.77.
My web site has nothing to do with computer technology, but for some reason I can’t figure out, Linux has increased 98% from 0.6 to 1.19.
Even W2K is a rip-off of another brilliant piece of work: Alpha OS.
It was cancelled with the Alpha processor after compaq got a hold of DEC, the accompanying OS was written off. The chief architect of that OS went directly to work at MS and re-created is in the form of Win2K
And in other news … wait, that’s been done.
The majority of folks coming to this site are Mac users, even if they are using a Windows box at the time. Thus the preference for the Mac platform.
I run three podcasts and a web site – none devoted to Mac, or Windows, or Linux, or any other technology. The two that are theater-specific tell me that there are more Macs out there than you might suspect. Of over 1,500 hits per day, perhaps 300 are from Macs. (the other two casts are “personal” and see about 50% Mac visitors)
Dave
PS3 even has a percentage? that’s amazing, I own a PS3 and the installed browser isn’t all that great, purposefully browsing with it must be painful…
I’m also one who visits this site mostly at work, so one of the XP/Firefox guys.
My web site (see above) has received over 3.1 million pages views so far this year. That should help put some perspective on my data.
And in other breaking news, 3 out of 4 Mac Fanboys prefer Macs to Windows PCs.
The PS3 stats are most likely mine.
I check MDN bookmark from the PS3 web browser either before/after fragging people online instead of firing up my badass MacPro.
Now that PC and Mac 3D gaming is on the decline for cheaper, more powerful and easier to use consoles, I can see them branching out into other computer like uses.
For instance the PS3 can handle video and music files and servers, browse the web, email and other things. But not nearly as good as a computer. Not yet anyway.
PS3’s can’t multi-task like a computer either. But Blue-Ray DVD’s in surround sound are awesome!
@ Harvey
What’s your URL?
Let’s skew those numbers all to hell.
PS3 even has a percentage? that’s amazing, I own a PS3 and the installed browser isn’t all that great, purposefully browsing with it must be painful…
Not really, if you know all the controls and have a keyboard hooked up to it. (Apple’s works) It’s quite decent.
It’s good if your already using the PS3 for something and just need to check the weather, MDN, news etc. really quick without firing up the computer.
Worthless information.