Browser usage for February 2007: three browsers to test, no Vista
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on March 11, 2007 at 10:08 PM
It now looks like web folks are stuck testing at least three browsers to make sure their sites work. For February on the UW home page, IE was splitting 72.5% of users 60/40 between version 6 and version 7 while Firefox had 24% usage. Safari is a distant third at 2.18% but it is the only other browser above a half a percentage point of users.
What I think is more interesting this month is the platforms. Mac has a good hold on 4.8% and MS Windows 94.36% but Vista was 0.63% of Windows users for the month. Windows 98 has more at 0.75%. A look ahead at March so far has Vista up to 1% of Windows users so it is gaining ground and is probably something web folks on campus are going to need to consider for testing by the summer.
Since I am looking ahead… Firefox is up to 26.55% of users for March so far. No idea why Firefox has jumped in usage over the past two months but it is a good sign ;)