Web Stats: Now With “MarketShare”

I took 20 minutes and added a feature request to my SVG Web Stats web application tonight: Now you can switch the timeline graph from Traffic mode to Distribution mode, which shows the share of each browser on my site as a percentage of the total.

Continuing with the navel-gazing theme, some points I noted in my stats:

• Opera and Safari now amount to 7-10% of my total unique visits
• Since its release last month, Firefox 3 has about the same share as IE7, which was released over a year and a half ago (20% total)
• IE has lost roughly 5% of total share on my site since I've started recording these statistics (this is my third year)
• IE6 is still the browser version with the largest single share (roughly 30%). Give Firefox 3 a few more months though...
• Virtually no one is using IE8 Beta 1, released over four months ago. I mean, way more people are using Firefox 3.1 pre-Alpha-1! I see at most one or two hits a week from IE8. Which makes sense because you can't install multiple copies of IE and there aren't very many cool things you can do with IE anyway.