Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| GrabPERF| Internet| The Web| Uncategorized| Web Performance| Web analytics| analytics
24 Mar 2009Using the visitor trending data collected and shared by StatCounter, I have undertaken a general analysis of browser distribution by global region. These metrics are collected using the embedded tags that StatCounter customers embed on their site to collect visitor metrics for their own use.
US data shows that MSIE 7.0 is in a dominant position, [...]
In: Blogging| Browsers| Web analytics| analytics
14 Mar 2009Here are the browser stats for Newest Industry as of March 14 2009. Not a large amount of traffic, but it is indicative of what most folks with technical content on their blogs likely see.
What did surprise me was the number of people who are still using MSIE 6.0. I am not sure what is [...]
Last fall it was Chrome. Now it’s Safari 4 Beta. Soon it will be Firefox 3.1 and IE 8.
Each browser has its harsh critics and fervent supporters. But in the end, does the browser really matter?
The answer to this question depends on who you speak to. Developers will say yes, because browsers make their lives [...]
In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| Work
3 Sep 2008Since I downloaded and started using Chrome yesterday, I have had to rediscover the world of online advertising. Using Firefox and Adblock Plus for nearly three years has shielded from their existence for the most part.
Stephen Noble, in a post on the Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals, seems to discover that Chrome will be [...]
As a Web performance consultant, I view the release of Google Chrome with slightly different eyes than many. And one of the items that I look for is how the browser will affect performance, especially perceived performance on the end-user desktop.
One thing I have been able to determine is that the use of WebKit will [...]
In: smp
28 Apr 2005Om Malik points out a potential threat to blogs: OSX 10.4 “Tiger”. The new Safari that ships with this OS comes with the RSS reader turned on by default!
That upgrade while great for the consumers, could come as a big shocker for those blogs whose feeds are included as part of SafariÂ’s default starter package. [...]
In: RANTING
21 Mar 2005This is the Browser Percentage breakdown for The Newest Industry over past 30 days.
This is a part of an ongoing series inspired by the browser percentage graph at ongoing.
The sudden shift upward on the part of Gecko and Safari browsers comes from the site being Scobelized on Saturday, March 19, 2005.
In: RANTING
18 Feb 2005Looks like Firefox could become the genesis of the private-label browser, unencumbered by nasty platform/OS/Service Pack limitations. [here -- courtesy of the XSLT:General blog]
I believe strenously that Microsoft has committed a serious error in limiting the upcoming MSIE 7 update to Windows XP SP2 machines. It will not drive the large corporate IT departments who [...]