2008 Browser Stats

These stats were published by the creator of wordpress and cover Jan 1, 2008 – Jun 30, 2008: 787 million “absolute unique” visitors, 1.6 billion visits, and 3.3 billion pageviews. These numbers are large enough and WordPress.com-hosted blogs diverse enough to be fairly representative of the internet as a whole.

First half 2008 ~ Browser Statistics:

  1. 59.41% – Internet Explorer (down 3.05%), sub-breakdown:
    • 53.42% – Version 7.0 (up 18.25%)
    • 46.28% – Version 6.0 (down 17.82%)
    • 0.14% – Version 5.5 (down 0.14%)
  2. 32.82% – Firefox (up 2.08%)
  3. 4.81% – Safari (up 0.98%)
  4. 2.04% – Opera (up 0.26%)
  5. 0.41% – Mozilla (down 0.11%)

First half 2008 ~ Operating System Breakdown:

  1. 89.41% – Windows (down 0.95%)
  2. 7.86% – Macintosh (up 1.13%)
  3. 1.82% – Linux (down 0.37%)
  4. 0.17% – iPhone (out of nowhere!)
  5. 0.10% – PlayStation Portable (up 0.07%)

* All the numbers come from Google Analytics.

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