Operating System Wars: The Technologizer Edition!

By  |  Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Technologizer on TreoOver at Daring Fireball, John Gruber has posted a report on the operating system versions used by his site’s visitors. (The almost-brand-new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard already dominates.) I’m a longtime sucker for this sort of data. So here’s a quick report on the OSes that folks use to visit Technologizer.

These numbers are based on Google Analytics data for the past thirty days. Usage fluctuates enough that if I do this again in a few months–and hey, I probably will–the breakdown might be meaningfully different. But here’s what it is right now.

Sixty-six percent of you used Windows to visit the site:

  • Sixty-one percent were on XP
  • Twenty-nine percent ran Vista
  • Ten percent were on earlier versions (I see no Windows 7 users reported–it may be that the OS doesn’t identify itself as Win 7 to browsers.)

Twenty-four percent of you use Macs:

  • Fifty-four percent ran OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Thirty-four percent had OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Eight percent used OS X 10.4 Tiger
  • Four percent had earlier versions
    (NOTE: The figures for Macs are updated from my original posting, which had eleven percent of Mac users on pre-10.4 versions of the OS: Eagle-eyed  John Gruber thought that sounded high, and he was absolutely right–I wasn’t accounting for Power PC users. More than ninety percent of Mac users were on Intel systems, incidentally.)

Five percent of you used Linux, and Google Analytics isn’t telling me how the distributions broke down, unfortunately. (It’s presumably safe to say that Ubuntu predominates.)

Three percent of you came to the site via an iPhone or an iPod Touch. Not a huge number of folks, but it’s double the figure from a year ago.

Other devices and OSes that people have used to visit Technologizer in the past month–none amount to more than one-tenth of one percent of visitors:

  • BlackBerry
  • Symbian
  • Android
  • Sun
  • OS/2 (wow)
  • PlayStation
  • Wii
  • Danger Hiptop
  • PalmOS
  • FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD
  • Other Unix variants
  • BeOS (double wow)
  • PSP

A grand total of zero percent of you visited Technologizer on an Amiga in the past month, which makes me very, very sad…

 
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  1. Dandelo Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    Looks like windows 7 does make itself known to browsers, I guess Google Analytics is just behind the times: here’s one that does http://blog.webtrends.com/2009/01/23/windows-7-tracking-available-in-webtrends-analytics/

  2. Peggy Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Well, let’s see…I account for 1 Vista, 1 XP, 1 Mac OS X 10.5, 1 Linux (Kubuntu) and one iPhone.

    I wonder if we have any other such repeat offenders.

  3. Daniel Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    I account for two XP, one Mac OS 10.61 and one iPhone 3gs. 🙂

  4. Michael Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    And now you have guaranteed several sympathy visits from Amiga-using visitors for the next time you report your stats! Maybe i’ll even fire up WinUAE…

  5. John Baxter Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Perhaps you’re being tripped up by the known oddity that Windows 7 is version number 6.1? (It’s something in the water in Redmond that causes these things.)

    I’ve been visiting regularly with Windows 7RC (64-bit).

  6. garth Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    what about WebOS? does that just count towards the “PalmOS” umbrella?

  7. Backlin Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 am

    Count me towards Windows 7, XP, Leopard (though not now) and Snow Leopard.

  8. Blain Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Out of curiosity, what does WinCE, er, Windows Mobile, show up as?

  9. Sinclair Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Man, not a single ZX Spectrum. I don’t believe it. It’s a goddam fix.

    Apart from that, do please tell us how the numbers changed after all the daring fireball readers found themselves here. I’d like to know that. Thanks. You’re great.

  10. Tom Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    OS/2 !!! It rings back sweet memories. But in 2009, God Damn !

  11. Harry McCracken Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    I’m sure the fact that John linked to this post and a bunch of DF readers dropped by–hi, everybody!–will increase the percentage of Mac users this month. This site is small enough that one story that appeals to a specific demographic can affect the overall breakdown.

    –Harry

  12. Juz Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Harry is right, I just “fireballed” your OS X stats for next month. But damn, I do kinda wish I was visiting from my previously-owned much-beloved Amiga 1000.

  13. Brett Warner Says:
    April 1st, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    I’m often here on android, today just using vista though.

  14. Erin Turner Says:
    May 20th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    For me, the best operating system is Linux because it rarely hangs.:*~

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