Nobody using Vista? My readers disagree…with proof.

20 Mar 2007

I was being the maniacal stat hound that I am tonight and looked at how IE7 was penetrating into the market. While 70% of my IE traffic (50% of my overall traffic) this week were using Internet Explorer 7, that wasn’t the surprising statistic.

What shocked me was when my curiosity led me to what percent of that traffic was using Windows Vista instead of Windows XP. I had been expecting a 15-20% Vista users and to my shock, 715 people, just shy of 40% this week visited my site using Windows Vista.

To be fair to the statistic gods, I do a fair amount of blogging about Windows Vista and the folks at Google seem to always rank my site favorably. One could presume that I am funneling Vista traffic to my website.

To back up the remaining statistics for those of you that are curious, the last seven days have generated 1,795 Windows users, 320 Linux users and 67 Macintosh users. That’s interesting enough for it’s own post that Macintosh is 3rd behind Linux…but I do a fair amount of blogging about that also. Coming from someone who claims no allegiance to any operating system, and blog favorably and unfavorably about both…it could also be considered rather unbiased.

Beyond OS/Browser stats, curb your curiosity below:

This week the largest Browser/Platform combo was Vista and IE7 at 23%, Linux didn’t show up until #6 at 6.44%.
The most common screen resolution was 1024×768 @26.45%, the usual web standard minimum, 800×600 came in at #8 with 3.11%.
97.76% of my users are Java Enabled.
Dialup still makes a presence in connection speed at 5.94% or 130 users, Cable/DSL makes up 78.99%.

If you are a webmaster and want to share your results, please comment so we can get a bigger piece of the story.

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