MacDailyNews’ Browser, OS stats show iPhone powering up the charts, Vista withering, and more
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 04:58 PM ESTBy 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.
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