Surprising Browser Statistics – People are actually using Safari on Windows

While going through my web site statistics for the week, I found and interesting metric. over 30 unique visitors found my site on Safari for Windows. I have tried the beta myself and it gave me no reason to give up on Mozilla Firefox. (which dominates my web site at over 46% total usage)

Following browser usage is particularly interesting for me giving the importance in my professional work day. I am the lead on a fortune 500 company’s eCommerce web site and when we launch changes, cross browser compatibility is very important. On that note, the breakdown of the top 10 client / operating system combinations that visit my site are as follows:

• Internet Explorer / Windows 37.38%
• Firefox / Windows 36.64%
• Safari / Macintosh 11.86%
• Firefox / Macintosh 7.06 %
• Firefox / Linux 2.72%
• Opera / Windows 1.48%
• Camino / Macintosh 0.73%
• Safari / iPod 0.40% (I know! Over 60 visitors!)
• Opera / Macintosh 0.21%
• Safari / Windows 0.20%

Some of those numbers are very surprising to me. I know I have visited my site on my iPod Touch, but 62 other people have to! Obviously you can’t financially make a case for 100% pixel perfect look on all of these clients, but IE6 & 7, Firefox 1.5 & 2 for Windows, Mac and Linux as well as Safari for Macintosh are the bare minimum in my opinion.

Please comment any interesting trends you have seen on your web sites as well.

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