How is Firefox doing in your site stats?

[ukros]

I mentioned in another part of the forum that about 5% of my site visitors this month are using Firefox. This is the first time I have seen a significant dent in the IE percentage.

After trying it I have become a convert.

 

No wish to be snobbish, but my customers often come from higher socio-economic groups and maybe these people are more open to trying new browsers than the majority of the surfing public.

 

To anyone with their own site and access to the stats, what percentage of Firefox visitors are you getting? It would be interesting to know whether it is a commercial site or not and any view (albeit maybe subjective) you have about the demographics of your visitors.

[magne]

I'm not sure if social groups are relevant in this case. However, many of those who are willing to try a new browser are experienced internet users, or at least past the "puzzlement" barrier. (They are comfortable with the internet, and feel comfortable with the technology).

 

Also, people who use Firefox are likely to have some sort of broadband connection, and can easily load 5-8 sites at the same time in different tabs. I have no scientific proof of this, but it is based on my experience.

 

The only site I got with sufficient traffic to make statistics on is a tool site for ODP; let's just say that the amount of firefox users is higher than 5% and lower than 100%

[ukros]

I'm not sure if social groups are relevant in this case. However, many of those who are willing to try a new browser are experienced internet users, or at least past the "puzzlement" barrier. (They are comfortable with the internet, and feel comfortable with the technology).

I'm not sure whether social groups are relevant either, except that maybe there is a correlation between the social groups my customers often come from and the experienced internet users you describe. Maybe this thread might throw some light on that!

 

5% at a "non-techie" commercial site for a newly released non m$ browser seems a high percentage. Some of that seems to have been at the expense of Opera (normally about 1.5%, this month only 0.5%)

[thehelper]

My main site shows 8.6 % Firefox users. Pretty much most of my visitors are coming looking for video game technical support. In other words, gamers

[thesul]

I have built 2 websites for clients in the last month and *still* have access to both hosts. Looking at their stats i'd say Firefox is averaging 7% this month.

 

Also note that these 2 websites have mainly web visitors who are 30+ (age) and one site owner says her customers are surprisingly all fairly new to the web.

 

Mid-aged-noobs seem to taking up Firefox too

[ukros]

Interesting replies. My off-line customers are also mostly over 30, so the online customers are likely to be in an older agegroup too.

 

I have just introduced my mother to Firefox, she's in her 70's and happily does her weekly grocery shopping online! I hope she gives it a try.

 

So far this month (December) my Firefox visitors seem to be holding firm at about 5%, but Opera and some of the others seem to be buoyant again, it is IE that has been squeezed. Having said that, 3 days is a rather small sample.

[sambeckett]

Firefox usage is hype.

I've used it and it still feels/look like crap.

[andysands]

Firefox usage is hype.

I've used it and it still feels/look like crap.

 

You must be using a very different version to me. Even ignoring the noticeably faster page loadtimes relative to IE, the tabbed browsing features and interface are great.

 

I use the Noia 2.0 theme on it because I prefer the button graphics in it to the default.

 

I've tried IE, Konqueror, Firefox and Mozilla - and Firefox is my favourite.

[jazar]

10.5% on one of the sites I manage : space related jobs

2% on an other one: shopping.

 

I think that firefox is used by people with a technical background, regardless of their age.

[Crichey]

Less than 1% so far. Maybe its a house hunting thing?! Haven't made the jump yet myself, but a lot of people I know have. :moz:

[plunky]

To throw another angle on it... what about the people that only surf when they are at work? My previous two employers prior to starting up alone had pretty strict restrictions so running an alternative browser was like trying to open a locked door.

 

0.2% of last month's traffic to my site was Firebird, but for the 7 days of this month I have a 49% Moz and 48% IE.

[Gimpy]

weird percentages. Starting to make me think mine may be a little off. 51% firefox users.

[cthulhu709]

Gimpy:

 

Maybe you are visiting your own site too often?

 

I run an RV related site, so mostly baby boomers, my firefox usage is at 1.18%.

 

On my Military Interest site, it doesn't even register, although OPERA gets a whopping 4.13%. Most of the users of the Military site are 18-35yrs old, current serving military members. Some technical background.

 

Cheers

[GrunGee]

I run a kitchen design website and Firefox is around 10% most of our internet customers are from rural outback australia.

[GrrrlRomeo]

The first browser I ever used was Netscape 4. I was loyal, and stubborn until IE 5 came out and Netscape had lost it's edge. Now I use Firefox and I love it like I used to love Netscape. There's alot of people using IE and it's the only browser they've ever used and don't see much reason to change. My guess is most Firefox user's are a combination of old Netscape users and users who are willing to try something new.

[Dalponis]

My site has about 50/50. This month IE is winning with 43%.

[Guest bashorney1]

I have a humor site and suprisingly Firefox is running about 25% so far this month. I use it myself and really enjoy the tabbed browsing and especially like the wide variety of extensions.

[ddorton]

Firefox doesn't fair very well on my site, only around 6.9%.

[Dirtydisco]

Firefox users account for 4-5 % of all browsers visting my site every month.

It peaked about 2 months ago at 8% but holds steady now

[Callimachus]

Last I looked mine was approximately:

 

Internet Explorer: 40%

Mozilla: 25%

Firefox: 25%

Others: 10% (Netscape, Opera, Lynx, bots, etc.)

[sandman52]

As of today, for the month of June, 2005:

 

I.E. 80.6%

Firefox 8.3%

Unknown 6.7%

Netscape 1.8%

Safari 1.3%

 

I personally prefer Firefox!

[Sunanda]

The browsers used by visitors to any site will vary according to the intended audience for a site, and how well that site supports the browser.

 

One techie site of mine -- http://www.rebol.org -- servers nearly 45% of its pages to Firefox users (that excludes pages served to bots of course).

 

That's on the high side for a general audience. But, as the site should render well in most browers later than Netscape Navigator 4, it is an indication of which browsers are currently prefered by a high tech audience.

 

Personally, I don't care much. Browser choice should be the users' choice. It's just my role when acting as a webmaster to not do anything that trips up any browser.

[leftie]

On my site, so far this month I have:

 

IE - 66 %

Firefox - 28%