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I have decided to do a little blogpost with some stats. These stats are from June 1st until August 31st 2008

Browsers

First we will take a look at the browsers. as you can see FireFox is the most used browser with 55%. I wonder how Google Chrome will do, will it take market share from Internet Explorer or from Firefox(or both)?

Browser %visits
Firefox 55.41%
Internet Explorer 39.04%
Opera 2.96%
Safari 1.84%
Mozilla 0.45%

If we drill down into Internet Explorer we can see that Internet Explorer 6.0 is still used by 30% of the people using Internet Explorer. As you can see some people still use version 5.5
Internet Explorer
1. 7.0 69.03%
2. 6.0 30.74%
3. 8.0 0.22%
4. 5.5 0.01%

Operating Systems

Now we will take a look at the Operating Systems
Windows is clearly number 1 with Linux just barely beating the Macintosh.

1. Windows 90.72%
2. Linux 4.48%
3. Macintosh 4.18%
4. iPhone 0.40%
5. (not set) 0.17%
6. iPod 0.02%
7. SunOS 0.01%
8. SymbianOS 0.01%
9. FreeBSD 0.01%
10. Nintendo Wii > 0.00%
11. Danger Hiptop > 0.00%
12. Playstation 3 > 0.00%
13. UNIX > 0.00%

If we drill down into windows we can see that Vista is at about 20%
1. XP 73.58%
2. Vista 19.63%
3. Server 2003 5.40%
4. 2000 1.30%
5. ME 0.06%
6. 98 0.02%
7. NT 0.01%
8. CE 0.01%
9. (not set) > 0.00%
10. 95 > 0.00%

For the Macintosh the vast majority of the people are running an Intel mac

1. Intel 91.87%
2. PPC 8.13%

Search Engines

In terms of search there is really no competition; Google is king
Search Engines
google 97.56%
yahoo 1.30%
live 0.65%
msn 0.25%
search 0.13%
altavista 0.03%
aol 0.03%
ask 0.02%
netscape 0.01%
alltheweb 0.00%
gigablast 0.00%

Countries

Most of the people who came to LessThanDot were from the United States

United States 45.85%
United Kingdom 9.31%
India 6.22%
Canada 3.65%
Belgium 2.63%
Australia 2.06%
Germany 2.06%
Netherlands 1.45%
Ireland 1.22%
Brazil 1.17%
Poland 1.14%
Italy 1.08%
Turkey 0.96%
France 0.92%
Sweden 0.83%
Israel 0.79%
Denmark 0.75%
Spain 0.73%
China 0.70%
Romania 0.67%

Most visited pages

These are the top 10 most visited pages on LessThanDot.com, I have left out the front page since that would have been number 1.

1 Forum - View topic - SQL Server Programming Hacks
2 Wiki - ASP.NET Hacks - Wiki
3 Wiki - SQL Server Programming Hacks - 100+ List - Wiki
4 Blog - Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code
5 Blog - Good SQL Articles To Read If You Can’t Afford Books
6 Forum - View forum - Programmer Puzzles
7 Blog - 5 Books Every Developer Should Read
8 Blog - nHibernate performance against Stored procedures
9 Forum - View forum - None of the Above
10 Wiki - ASP.NET: Access Master Page controls from the Content Page - Wiki

About the Author

User bio imageDenis has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. Although he worked as an ASP/JSP/ColdFusion developer before the dot com bust, he has been working exclusively as a database developer/architect since 2002. In addition to English, Denis is also fluent in Croatian and Dutch, but he can curse in many other languages and dialects (just ask the SQL optimizer) He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three kids.
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Comment from: chrissie1 [Member] Email
Belgium, only 2.63%. I can hardly believe it with all the time I spent on this site.
09/03/08 @ 03:26
Comment from: SQLDenis [Member] Email
You must be the only person from Belgium
09/03/08 @ 05:11

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