Oleg

Huh? Firefox expansion?? Not in RUnet!

Sunday, 24. February 2008, 10:57:25

Many western websites mark it's Firefox visitors count to about 30% of total site visitors. For example, 28% of New York Times visitors are using Firefox. There's also about 34% of users of PC World are FF users too. WordPress.com — 30%.

According to the world analytics reports, Firefox has about 21% of browser market worldwide. Hm...

But when it goes to the RUnet (Russian, most Ukrainian and other exUSSR websites), there's no signs of 'Firefox expansion' on the most popular websites there:

mail.ru: Firefox - about 10%, Opera - 16%, IE - 72%.
rambler.ru: Firefox - 9%, Opera - 12%, IE - 72%.
rbc.ru: Firefox - 13%, Opera - 18%, IE - 68%.
gazeta.ru: Firefox - 20%, Opera - 2% (!), IE - 77%.
auto.ru: Firefox - 11%, Opera - 21%, IE - 67%.
lenta.ru: Firefox - 16%, Opera - 20%, IE - 63%.
bash.org.ru: Firefox - 20%, Opera - 49% (!), IE - 29%.
3dnews.ru: Firefox - 20%, Opera - 30%, IE - 40%.
ixbt.com: Firefox - 23%, Opera - 34%, IE - 42%.
opennet.ru: Firefox - 43%, Opera - 30%, IE - 27%.

Btw, only Russian web users share is about 4-5% of overall worldwide.

Stats was taken from the www.opennet.ru website.

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Comments

Olgita # 26. February 2008, 07:25

Interesting statistics!

AleksOD # 26. February 2008, 20:43

That's what I said - not on my list!

tisme # 9. March 2008, 20:05

hell yeah, I've been amused myself very much indeed when I stumbled upon that and mail.ru stats in particular (btw, Opera's share is still growing out there).

although, I'd love to see LiveJournal.com stats -- I expect FF users dominate there, just as well as they do on WordPress.ORG (rather than .COM).

I believe it's a matter of the target audience in a great extent. there're many factors like a revenue which resembles in usage of a vintage hardware (where Opera wins), subjectiveness to crowd hype (kewl/not cool), common IT literacy level and stuff like that.