Sources of icons: IE & Firefox
After reading Donna from Blogging Tips article about how it is Ok to be a StatsAHolic, I have decided to embrace my stat watching habit and post about one of them, reader’s browsers. What browser are most of your users using?
Pingable Browser Percentages
81.62% - Firefox
12.67% - Internet Explorer
03.43% - Safari
01.19% - Opera
What Might Browser Stat’s Suggest About Your Blog?
More technical savvy users are more likely not to be using Internet Explorer. So if your topic is related to a technical subject, you should expect that most of your readers will be using a Non-IE browser. If your stat’s show a different picture then maybe your readers aren’t who you thought. Although you should be careful about reading too much into these sorts of figures, it may give you something to think about.
Why Should You Use Firefox?
After looking at the figures above I feel like I am preaching to the converted, but there are many reasons why you should use Firefox or another web standards compliant browser over IE. IE handles some layout aspects different to what web standards state. As anyone web designer will know, this causes problems, as web content formatted to appear correctly in web standards compliant browser, may look different in IE. Besides that, Firefox is an Open Source browser with great features, a fast page rendering speed, and many add-on’s that enhance your experience when browsing the net.
How Can You Advertise Firefox Only To Your IE Users and Make Some Money
This article by Nick Papanotas from Payment Blogger, Earn more with Adsense’s Firefox affiliates, gives you a clear method to show Adsense’s Firefox affiliate ads to your only IE users. The following code from Nick’s article will display a text ad to your IE users:
<!--[if IE]> <div style=“width:99%;border-bottom: 2px solid red;background:gray;padding:5px;color:#FFF;”> <strong>Warning</strong>: You are using Internet Explorer. <a href=“http://getfirefox.com/”>Get Firefox with Google Toolbar for better browsing </a> </div> <![endif]–>
You will need to change the link to include your affiliate code.
4 Responses to “What Browser Do Your Readers Use?”
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I’m a Mac user - and I know several Mac Users who read my blog.
It shows in my Browser stats.
Firefox: 46.07%
Safari: 32.97%
IE: 19.43%
Camino, Mozilla, Mozilla Compatable Agent, Opera: < 1%
My blog is a 'tech-savvy' blog, focusing on design, blogging, and technology.
The Browser usage mirrors that.
Here’s a great web-wide browser-usage chart.
That WWW stats page is interesting. IE is still king of the hill, and yet most blogs probably have higher Firefox usage. I guess that says something about the blogging crowd. Then again, when you look at what many Wordpress themes look like in IE6 for example, which I have to use at work…they look terrible, CSS layout issues in many blog themes probably scare off IE users.
I use IE7
@ Madhur - I use IE7 a bit too, IE is fine as a browser, it is just a disaster to design web sites for