Who You Calling A Jesse?

Given the IE 7 mention in the Daily Bulletin today and a message I got from John Jaray in the Computer Store that Apple sales are up 69% this year over last, I thought maybe some numbers on what we have seen on the home page might be timely to give web folks. I am currently using Google Analytics on the UW home page to get these numbers and can compare with numbers from a two week long period last year in November of 640 000 users in 2005 to 682 000 for 2006 so far this month this year.

Sorry for the lack of pretty graphs. What to note in this is that:

• Firefox has increased 5% in the last year to 21% nearly (without a campus roll out),
• IE 7 is close to 6% of our IE user base
• Mac/Apple machines have increased from 2% to 4% of the user base over last year
• 800×600 use is under 4% (yet we still design for it)

With the number of users on the home page, 1% is a lot of people.

Once we get a full month of Analytics data (it was off for a year), I will post it in web.uwaterloo.ca for people to have a look. For now, here is what I have to compare…

Browsers Last year (Nov 05):

• IE – 80.1% (of that, 99.13% IE 6, 0.33% IE 5.5)
• Firefox – 15.89% (of that, 1.0.x approx 99%)
• Safari – 1.51%
• Netscape – 1.34%
• Others – under 1% (Mozilla, Opera, etc)

Platforms last year (Nov 05):

• Windows – 96.72%
• Mac/Apple – 2.32%
• Linux – 0.62%
• SunOS – 0.33%

Resolution (Nov 05):

• 800×600 or below – 6.36%
• 1024×768 – 59.27%
• 1280×1024 – 12.65%
• Others are above 1280×1024

For this year the test size for November is similar so far, 682K:

Browsers this year (Nov 06):

• IE – 75.90% (of that, 93.83% IE 6, 5.90% IE 7, 0.09% IE 5.5)
• Firefox – 20.73% (of that, 1.5.x 74%, 2.0 is 13%, and 1.0.x is approx. 13%)
• Safari – 1.93%
• Netscape – 0.71%
• Others – less than 1% (Mozilla, Opera, etc)

Platforms for this year (Nov 06):

• Windows – 94.92%
• Mac/Apple – 4.28%
• Linux – 0.61%
• SunOS – 0.16%

Resolution (Nov 06):

• 800×600 or below – 3.57%
• 1024×768 – 47.78%
• 1280×800/1024 – 32%
• Others are above 1280×1024

That is a lot stats ;)