Operating Systems and Browsers

I’m into dorky stats… so this will only be interesting to me.

Here’s an interesting trend about Mac vs. PC users at Youth Ministry Exchange. (PC is the larger number)

• Jan-May 2007: (90% vs. 10%)
• June-August 2007: (85.5% vs. 14.5%)
• September-today: (84.5% vs. 15.5%)

So, Mac is gaining on PC among YMX users, the growth has just stalled.

Here’s an interesting trend about the 3 ost popular web browsers used to access the site. (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari.. combining Mac + PC numbers)

• Jan-May 2007 (46-48-4)
• June-August 2007 (47-44-5)
• September-today (55-36-7)

So, more and more YMX users are actually switching back to Internet Explorer.

There are more stats that I could share to bore you to death. But the point here is that the trends are not what you would think they would be. Based on the advertising and the hype that is out there it would be easy to determine that Mac has taken a bigger chunk of the users from PC… but that trend doesn’t hold true among YMX users. A 5% increase is significant, but not a shift.

Likewise, the shift away from Firefox and back to Internet Explorer (and the 3% increase in Safari users) is surprising. (Shocking, really.)

Snapshot stats… (year to date)
Dial-up users: 5%
Absolutely unique IPs accessing the site: 55k
Average pageviews by a visitor per session: 10
Average time per visitor: 10:55

All stats are provided by Google Analytics. All are based on pageviews.