Mario v. Browser
Posted by Kevin Hazard, March 24th, 2006
I’m shoutin’ out to the old school Nintendo folks with this post… We all know it is Mario vs. Bowser, but I wanted to bring up the Browser race, hence: Mario v. Browser… I know, you are blown away by the creativity and mediocre Photoshop skillz…
We made a move from Clicktracks to Mint to watch and analyze our main site’s traffic, and we couldn’t be more happy with the result in our limited usage of the software. Clicktracks wasn’t necessarily bad for us since it provided so much great information, but we were paying hundreds of dollars per month and no one had the time to really pay attention to what it was trying to tell us (more info about your traffic than you could shake a stick at… if you are one to shake sticks at information about your traffic). We threw down the $30 bucks and within a few minutes Rod and Todd had Mint up and running. Unlike Clicktracks, we don’t get the detailed “these are all the people who came to your site and what each one of them had for breakfast” reports, but we can extract the meaningful data quickly and easily with no recurring cost.
From our first 2 days of Minty-flavored site reports, I saw an interesting trend that was moderately blog-worthy… We’ve got a Firefox crowd…
So naturally, my next logical progression was to get an “official” rundown of the Browser race from the first result when I searched for “Browser Market Share” in Google… [Sarcasm]Coming up first in Google search results inherently means the result is the authority on the subject, right??[/Sarcasm]. Check out the updated numbers, and be impressed like me:
Firefox has over 25% of the market, based on these very-arguable numbers which entitle me to pass the blame for their veracity straight to the site I got them from. 
This post isn’t advocating any browser in particular… I use Safari, IE, Opera, Firefox, and even Netscape now and then (just to mix things up), and I know how intense the “my browser is better than yours” debates can be, so I will have Mario end the post asking for peace…
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