Interesting Browser poll on the BBC website

[FourWheelDrift]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology

BBC results currently said:

Which browser do you use?
Internet Explorer - 0.13%
Firefox - 71.29%
Both - 28.58%
35703 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion

IE - 0.13% !!

[JamieBeeston]

Internet Explorer - 0.13%
Firefox - 71.29%
Both - 28.58%


Something quite amiss there I think

[pjskel]

No, all adds up to 100%.
I guess the individual options refer to solely or exclusively - nothing else but.

[aldi]

Lol shows exactly what the results of these kinds of mini-polls are actually worth!

[TonyHetherington]

So the conclusion of that is that 71.29% of people that bother to fill in surveys use Firefox?

[egomeister]

Or the firefox community have hijacked the poll!

[FunkyGibbon]

JamieBeeston said:

Internet Explorer - 0.13%
Firefox - 71.29%
Both - 28.58%


Something quite amiss there I think

I'd say! From our web stats (just over 1 million visits per month)

IE 73%
Firefox 15%
Unknown 8%
Safari 2%
Mozilla 2%
Netscape 1%
AOL 1%

IE still sucks though

[Leithen]

You think the BBC might bother to look at it's own logs and give the browsers splits from people accessing the web-site...

[thepassenger]

FunkyGibbon said:

JamieBeeston said:

Internet Explorer - 0.13%
Firefox - 71.29%
Both - 28.58%


Something quite amiss there I think

I'd say! From our web stats (just over 1 million visits per month)

IE 73%
Firefox 15%
Unknown 8%
Safari 2%
Mozilla 2%
Netscape 1%
AOL 1%

IE still sucks though

40.4% for IE
37.7% for Firefox
13.2% for "Unknown"
with minor percentages for "Nutscrape", Safari and such.
Of course most of those stats are from people appearing from here (yoinking pictures and such) so it's not quite a sampling of the average internet use.

[Plotloss]

Analytics tells me

85.19% IE
12.96% Firefox
1.85% Safari

Based on (probably) tech savvie viewers of my website.

[Podie]

egomeister said:

Or the firefox community have hijacked the poll!

Nah, only geeks have been looking at the poll...

[mmm-five]

I don't use Internet Explorer, because there hasn't been one for the Mac for about 2 year. However to get some sites to display properly I have to tell my browser to identify itself as IE. I bet that's where some of the extra IE numbers come from (though probably only 1-2%).

[scared but happy]

Do you recon its a case of hijacking the result? A bit like Pistonhead assaults on websites that have the what do you think of speed camera questionares?

[FourWheelDrift]

Shirley you jest?

[UncleDave]

MS Internet Explorer 83.4 %
Firefox 12.8 %
Safari 1.2 %
Mozilla 0.7 %
Unknown 0.6 %
Opera 0.5 %
Netscape 0.4 %
Konqueror 0 %
NetShow 0 %
Camino 0%

Copying stats that are mainly useless to me onto PH is fun

But.. Konqueror? Netshow? Camino? -- you what?

Edited by UncleDave on Monday 30th October 17:12

[mcflurry]

I use opera, and set it to think its IE

[xiphias]

UncleDave said:

MS Internet Explorer 83.4 %
Firefox 12.8 %
Safari 1.2 %
Mozilla 0.7 %
Unknown 0.6 %
Opera 0.5 %
Netscape 0.4 %
Konqueror 0 %
NetShow 0 %
Camino 0%

Copying stats that are mainly useless to me onto PH is fun

But.. Konqueror? Netshow? Camino? -- you what?

Edited by UncleDave on Monday 30th October 17:12

Get with it Dave