Thanks for feeding back those stats – they are showing closer to what Onestat and Neilsen reported.

I had another look at both dLook and Obits. Funnily Obits is showing a bit higher on Firefox usage than dLook. Obits is running a bit over 11% whereas dLook just over 10.

But dLook Dating is showing 30.8% Firefox, which is very interesting.

Cheers, and good luck with webmenu

This is for webmenu.com.au, which has 99% of its users from Adelaide and content relating to restaurants.

Thanks for dropping in. I think people from Massachusetts rock too

Since I flunked statistics I will not comment on the particulars except to say I think this also shows that Aussies Rock!

~Becky

Thanks for reporting those stats. Yes I can see how it’s particularly dependent on the audience demographic.

I just think that if the media are going to quote trends, then they ought to be across the spectrum, rather than a skewed demographic.

I might just do that Google search…when I’m feeling motivated

Most of the stat’s I see on browser breakdown are heavily influenced by audience demographic.

Some of the tech blogs I read have up to 85% Firefox, whereas most consumer sites appear to hover at 10-20%. The more “portal” orientated the lower the percentage too. While not an aussie domain(or host), so I don’t get any google au love – my techish blog is 65% Firefox and 30% IE while my personal blog is 77% IE and 19% Firefox.

FWIW, I just had a look at Darren Rowse’s Religious livingroom.com.au/blog and his sitemeter reports 84% IE and 17% Firefox.

You could google for other open .au sitemeter sites for comparison if your not as lazy as I am…

Wow!

Do you think your “average” visitor might be more “technically savvy”?

Accure seems to be close to the national penetration rate for Mozilla.

2006 – 19.5%
2007 (so far) – 25.2%

As for usability functions, these are reported from this user’s personal experience not from any “Myths”.

Thanks for the link, though. Interesting…..