web development

There are a few marketing numbers for browser share published from time to time, however individual sites can certainly vary. I thought it would be interesting to share some statistics about visitors to my sites (danwright.info, banasmoo.com, photography.danwright.info, and dan-anna.com).

As of this writing, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 has been publicly released for a week or so (the samples that follow include pre-release versions of IE 8). Safari 3.2 was released in November 2008, and the Safari 4.0 beta (pre-release) has been out for less than a month.

From February 2008 to March 2009, browser share was as follows:

• 56% MSIE
• 24% Firefox
• 14% Safari
• 6% Others

Internet Explorer share by version:

• 64% IE 7.0
• 33% IE 6.0
• 3% IE 8.0 (including betas)

Firefox:

• 48% Firefox 2.0
• 46% Firefox 3.0
• 4% Firefox 1.5
• 3% Firefox 1.0

Safari:

• 41% Safari 3.1 (desktop)
• 16% Safari 3.2 (desktop)
• 13% Safari 3.0 (desktop)
• 12% Safari 3.1 (mobile – iPhone/iPod Touch)
• 6% Safari 3.0 (mobile)
• 6% Sarari 4.0 (desktop; beta)
• 5% Safari 2.x (or older)

Phew. I’m very nearly done working on the wedding site. I’m currently working on a post describing my web site template system, smoot, designed over the past month and getting it‘s first “live” test over at the new site. I plan to publish that post in the next few days.

The site has really progressed fairly easily. Using smoot has made it much easier to separate the two basic tasks of web site production (design and publishing). This has allowed me to focus more of my time on a web-based RSVP system (yes, Evite can do this, but it’s far too informal and impersonal for a wedding).