There’s always a lot of flack floating around about the so called "Browser Stats" that various organizations "In The Know" throw up on the WWW and everyone else argues about but me, so I headed over to W3Schools website to their browser stats page to check out the "by the month" charts. For example, here’s the one for 2007:
As you can see, Internet Explorer in all it’s various forms has 57.2% of the current browser market that hangs around W3Schools and good ol’ Firefox (I assume they combine all versions there of) has gained a hell of a chunk with 35.4%.
So armed with that knowledge, I decided to find out what my personal browser stats look like for my little effort here. What kind of browsing rig do you folks ride in when you stop by for a visit? So I logged into StatCounter and meandered over to the browser section of my stats, grabbed the latest numbers and even took the time to label them nice and big for you. Wasn’t that nice of me?
So here they are…the browsers my readers use to drop by from time to time as of 15 minutes ago:
For me it looks like IE has the edge at 52.47% while Firefox has second place at 43.64% (I sound like an announcer at a horse race event fer heavens sake!).
There! Another set of browser statistics for folks to argue over. Hope you appreciate the effort. 
We must run with different crowds. On Shards it’s 66% Firefox and 30% IE, with the balance spread between seven different browsers.
Hi Rick,
Well let’s see now. Todays stats shows that I’m running Firefox @54.77% and IE (both flavors) @37.54%. Changes everyday.
According to Pmetrics however, the browser stats for the last 30 days appears to run neck and neck with IE @48% and Firefox @44.7%. I figure it like this (I thought hard on this one…hope you appreciate it)
Your endeavor, like Liz’s and unlike mine runs along a given “theme” so to speak. When folks travel to your blog they do so because of the “feel” of it as well as your great content. As I’ve found out, certain types of “themes” or “feels” of a place attract a certain type of reader and it shows in the browser they use. Your effort makes folks “think out side the box” so to speak and these types I’ve come to find, tend to go more for Firefox rather than the mainstream IE.
My end of things however, wanders all over heck and breakfast and never once settles down…anywhere. Just Thinkin’ can be compared to that “really good band” that can never can settle on just one genre of music so they always lose the crowd by the third set. In other words, I attract all types of readers and none ever stick around long.
How’s that for blog psychology?
Hey! I like that band!
Last year and the first few months of this year most of my readers used IE. In January, for example, 50% used IE and 43% used Firefox. I had just put the shift down to a greater market share for Firefox, but your W3Schools stats put the lie to that. Maybe the readership has changed.
Hey Rick…So you saw my old band too ay?