Comments on: Browser Statistics and Other Metrics for Irish Web Users

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:39 +0000

Hi Dave,
I put these stats together a while ago with a web analytics package called Nedstat. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me) I no longer use this package so I cannot verify what version of Safari it was. It appears you are correct, in that I am wrong Safari 5 is not and would not have been out. So either the user-agent passed was spoofed or I copied the data incorrectly.

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:12 +0000

Actually I just noticed the stats I pulled mention Safari 5. As I now longer use this web analytics software I can’t confirm if this was an error on behalf of the web analytics tool or not.

I’ll have to check how Safari’s older versions are reported.

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:12 +0000

Hi Dave,
I wasn’t aware it was released yet or had been announced at all. Is Google Analytics reporting this browser?

By: Dave Parting

Dave Parting — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:33:40 +0000

when did safari 5 come out?!!

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:53:26 +0000

Hi Marketing Consultant.
I doubt that to be honest. As much as I’d love it to be true unfortunately Internet Explorer has majority market share in most places in the world.

It can vary from website to website and specific sites target certain users who will be more likely to be on Firefox, see http://www.w3c.org as an example of a site where a high Firefox user base would be normal.

Most news sites / blogs / forums would probably get 80% IE though.

What stat package were you using? Google Analytics is quite good.

By: Marketing Consultant

Marketing Consultant — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:05:48 +0000

Thanks for this, it is interesting that at a certain stage we had on our website, targeting Ireland, stats saying that 80% visitors were using Mozilla – could this be any true?

By: Tomas

Tomas — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:35:22 +0000

Anybody got stats on the increase in online sales via Irish based online stores? We know that their was an 11% increase in UK store in June 08.

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:21:26 +0000

Good man Gavin, thanks for the resolution stats, just what I was looking for.

800 x 600 seems to be well and truely a thing of the past!

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:47:23 +0000

To be fair, Netscape 4.0 could have been the result of people testing the site in the browser rather than actual users and it only really made the top 5 because the majority of browsers are split between IE, FF and Safari.

Some browsers also disguise themselves as other browsers. I believe Opera used to do this to access banking sites as many banking sites would look for IE only and exclude other browsers.

Browser exclusion used to drive me nuts, but that’s a whole new story.

By: Byronyasgur

Byronyasgur — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:48:13 +0000

interesting stuff…

“Netscape 4.0 still appeared in the top 5 of browsers used on Car Buyers Guide. ”

eeek … these people must have the patience of job – looking at the web through N4.0 is no field day !!