Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Browser trends into 2010

I noticed a post by Nick at UCL a couple of weeks ago about browser trends in 2009 on their site and it prompted me to have a look at our numbers too.

As Nick noted in his post, these trends are not really a surprise but they're still interesting and it's worth keeping an eye on the big picture.

Here are our trends over the past year:

IE6





IE7





IE8


Chrome


Safari


Mac


iPhone


(Caveat: we've been rolling Google Analytics out more widely over the past year so a small amount of upward trending is likely down to us covering more pages over time)


Update:
Someone pointed out that I forgot to include Firefox, so here's just one more:


Update 2!:
Arthur noted that comparisons would be more useful, so I pulled some of the data into Excel and came up with this (click through to see a bigger, almost-legible version):
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous31 March 2010 at 21:51

    Hi Dan,

    Can you post all the browsers on one graph. Since the scale is different in each graph, it's hard to judge anything from these

    Cheers,

    Arthur

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  2. Unknown1 April 2010 at 13:46

    Thanks for the comment Arthur. I think the trends are interesting even in isolation, but you're right that easy comparisons are useful too.

    Analytics doesn't make it easy to do a big chart of all of them together unfortunately (unless someone can tell me a way...) It does let us export the data into Excel though, so I've put together a fairly ugly comparison chart using that and added it to the post.

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