Stripping out his numbers and putting them in a table“A couple of months ago the OSNews.com website published their most recent platform and browser statistics. I thought it would be interesting to compare their figures with those of DistroWatch.com. OSNews is, of course, a more general technology news site than DistroWatch, covering all operating systems rather than focusing only on the free and open-source ones as we do. Nevertheless, it is likely visited by technical users interested in new technologies.” I think I see a pattern:
| Site | Share of */Linux |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 13% |
| OSNews | 21% |
| Distrowatch | 46% |
His numbers for browsers are even more startling. Even those who use that other OS to visit these sites are using M$’s browser only a few percent, 9% on Wikipedia but only 2.7% on Distrowatch. The world of FLOSS and */Linux has come a long way and the popularity of Free Software amongst the technologically literate is spreading to the mainstream of ordinary users of IT. Two of the greatest lock-ins that M$ developed are fading rapidly.
See DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD..
JD wrote, “How about you Mr. Pogson, could you tell us how the stats look for your blog?”
I used to have such stats up on the side. I lost that in the migration to a new server. I will try to collect some anew.
UPDATE After a few hours this is what I get:
There were a whole bunch of “unknowns”. I’ll take them as spammers and ignore them.
Here are some stats from my own blog:
Chrome – 54.30%
Firefox – 33.50%
IE – 5.86%
Safari – 3.52%
Windows – 61.39%
Linux – 27.42%
Mac – 7.07%
Android – 2.27%
iOS – 1.74%
How about you Mr. Pogson, could you tell us how the stats look for your blog? I know most readers to this blog would be the techy type and wouldn’t represent “real” world stats, but it would still be interesting nonetheless.
If you average the three, you derive 26.6%, typical 80/20.
The 1% line is BUNK!
Linux= 29,38% (Linux pc, Android Linux, ChromeOS, Firefox OS)