Firefox Must Be Doing Something Right

Wed, 09/12/2007 - 16:36 — James Mowery |

Web Tech

My site stats since the beginning of tracking Tech In demand with both Google Analytics and Clicky have revealed some pleasing statistics for Firefox. I will let the images speak for themselves:

These statistics are current from August 23rd, 2007 to September 12th, 2007. Firefox is currently leading the pack from which browsers visit my site--note that my page visits are not included in these statistics.

It is interesting to know that many more users are utilizing Firefox. Granted, my site is a technology related sites, and most readers are likely to be tech savvy, but it is nice to know that these users tend to favor Firefox more than the competition. Supporting open-source software, and supporting software that supports current web standards (unlike Internet Explorer) is a great thing in my opinion.

I am also a fan of the Opera web browser, and am glad to have them come in third place, but wish more people would use the browser compared to Internet Explorer. If you had the choice between Internet Explorer and Opera, I would strongly advise to go with Opera. It is more secure and offers many more options than Internet Explorer does.

There is good reason that Firefox is leading the pack. It is one of the safest browsers available today. System security is important to me. Plugins like Adblock Plus and NoScript also further increase the security of Firefox. So keep on surfing Firefox users, knowing that your numbers continue to grow, and with Firefox 3 right around the corner, there is only great things in store for you.

You might also want to check out how to Make Firefox Extraordinary With These Extensions.

Leave a comment and tell us what browser you use!

Comments

Thu, 09/13/2007 - 16:57 — Jeffro2pt0 (not verified)

Cool post James. After

Cool post James. After reviewing my blogs stats, Firefox is a VERY dominant browser that is being used to view my site. I live and breath Firefox. It's original motto was "Take Back Control Of The Web" And with the variety of plugins, themes and hacks available for the browser, that is precisely what I've been able to do. Also James, I too have to deal with designing for Firefox THEN reworking the design to work for IE and often times, it's impossible. Also,for Mark, he might want to look into the firefox plugin called IE Tab which gives you an IE environment inside of Firefox. I use to use IE simply because it had a built in, simple to use FTP Client. With FIRE FTP, I now have that same functionality inside of Firefox.

Wed, 09/12/2007 - 23:42 — ob81 (not verified)

FF has pretty much taken

FF has pretty much taken over dude. Mark has a point about the variety that FF has. People, even the most basic of users, have stopped trusting IE a long time ago. heh

Wed, 09/12/2007 - 18:19 — James Mowery (not verified)

@Mark All great points. I

@Mark All great points. I don't understand any company that would design a technical site without being able to use Firefox. Yahoo Music is a service that I know to never allow Firefox users. I don't understand what they were thinking? If Yahoo Music still doesn't accept Firefox, it would be just stupid in my opinion. The bad thing though. I've been developing everything with Firefox in mind, and then I have to deal with the quirks that IE has because IE doesn't support web standards well. Glad you are a Firefox user :)

Wed, 09/12/2007 - 17:57 — Mark Hearne (not verified)

The wide variety of plugins

The wide variety of plugins swings it for Firefox and tech heads. The password memory,developers toolbar,etc,. IE7 is a poor mans copy of Firefox. I only keep it for those few Microsoft sites I occasionally have to visit. And yes I got here on Firefox.!