Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2011
I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2011 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a bit of exciting developments in store for 2012, including a major code update. 2011 also marks the year that we expanded on the LQ vision to launch The Questions Network along with LQ's fist sister site, AndroidQuestions.org.
I’ve once again posted to this blog far less frequently in 2011 than I’d have liked to, and I’m going to work to change that this year (I do post to twitter fairly often, for those interested).
As has become tradition, here are the browser and OS statistics for the main LQ site for all of 2011 (2010 stats for comparison).
| Browsers | |
|---|---|
| Firefox | 53.07% |
| Chrome | 24.79% |
| Internet Explorer | 13.50% |
| Safari | 3.59% |
| Opera | 3.05% |
| Android Browser | 0.26% |
| Konqueror | .23% |
The Firefox decline at LQ continues, while one in four now use Chrome to access the site. For the first time, a mobile browser has broken into the top 10.
| Operating Systems | |
|---|---|
| Windows | 52.68% |
| Linux | 38.55% |
| Macintosh | 6.99% |
| Android | .44% |
| iPhone | .35% |
Windows and Macintosh use are slightly up from last year, while Linux use is actually slightly down. While Android and iPhone use are both up, Android surpassed iPhone for the first time.
I’d also like to take this time to thank each and every LQ member. You are what make the site great. Don't forget to vote in the 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, which recently opened.
--jeremy