Theocacao: Interesting Stats from Cocoa Sites

Interesting Stats from Cocoa Sites

There's a fairly good chunk of data to look at with Cocoa Blogs and Cocoa Dev Central, and the results are somewhat surprising. Not only are there are a disproportionate number of Windows users, but it gives some insight into the Intel versus PowerPC distribution on the Mac side.

Operating Systems

Cocoa Blogs

1. Mac OS X    71.16%

2. Windows     26.78%



Cocoa Dev Central

1. Mac OS X    75.06%

2. Windows     23.06%

Wow. Roughly a quarter of all visitors are on Windows for both sites.

Browsers

Cocoa Blogs

1. Safari      48.90%

2. Firefox     33.82%

3. Explorer     6.60%



Cocoa Dev Central

1. Safari      58.36%

2. Firefox     27.40%

3. Explorer     7.96%

Virtually all Safari visitors (92% for both sites) are on Safari 419.3.

Browser + Platform

Cocoa Blogs

1. Safari 419.3 on Mac Intel  22.98%

2. Safari 419.3 on Mac PPC    22.23%

3. Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP  12.32%

4. Firefox 2.0 on Mac Intel    6.20%

5. Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP   4.64%

6. Firefox 2.0 on Mac PPC      4.39%



Cocoa Dev Central

1. Safari 419.3 on Mac Intel  27.06%

2. Safari 419.3 on Mac PPC    26.72%

3. Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP   8.58%

4. Firefox 2.0 on Mac Intel    5.55%

5. Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP  5.05%

6. Firefox 2.0 on Mac PPC      4.21%

Most Mac visitors are using Safari.

Mac Architecture Comparison

Cocoa Blogs	

1. Intel   50.41%

2. PPC     49.59%



Cocoa Dev Central

1. Intel   51.57%

2. PPC     48.43%

Almost right down the middle.

Interesting Stats from Cocoa Sites
Posted Dec 13, 2006 — 14 comments below

Joachim Mrtensson — Dec 14, 06 2685

Perhaps they are browsing from work/school. I usually modify the css-file to get smarter location of page-breaks (Perhaps that has been fixed) and print the articles from school.

Philippe — Dec 14, 06 2686

I wonder if the "disproportionate number of Windows users" can be explained by some users reading the blogs at work (for example). You may have a break, want to catch up on your Cocoa blogs, and be at work where all you have is a Windows system...

Scott Stevenson — Dec 14, 06 2687

You may have a break, want to catch up on your Cocoa blogs, and be at work where all you have is a Windows system

That does make sense, though the fact that IE6 is at 5% for Cocoa Dev Central seems strange. I would think most Mac users (at least those interested in Cocoa) would be on Firefox on Windows.

Adrian — Dec 14, 06 2689

I read your blog from work, using Firefox 2; since I use a Windows XP machine, you can count my hits in that group :) maybe others are doing the same (Windoze developer during the day, Ruby + Cocoa during the night...)

Jenix — Dec 14, 06 2690

I think you shold check the AppleWebKit version, not Safari version..
check this - http://webkit.org/blog/?p=84
:)

Ross — Dec 14, 06 2691

I think the other commenters are probably spot on with their assertion that people are probably checking from work. In my small (we're in the UK after all) circle of Mac using friends all of them write code (or support it) on Windows - me included :( - during the day, but use a Mac for nearly everything else.

Dan Price — Dec 14, 06 2692

I visit these sites from work using a Windows machine. But I'm Apple to the core! I swear!

Scott Stevenson — Dec 14, 06 2693

I think you shold check the AppleWebKit version, not Safari version..

It's not an option with Google Analytics as far as I can tell.

Mr B. — Dec 14, 06 2700

That does make sense, though the fact that IE6 is at 5% for Cocoa Dev Central seems strange. I would think most Mac users (at least those interested in Cocoa) would be on Firefox on Windows.

Sometimes there are no other options than using IE at work, I've been contracting for such sucidal/daredevil companies ... perhaps to prevent network users from installing malicious software other than Microsoft.

David Cairns — Dec 14, 06 2701

I think it's probably pretty likely that there are enough Windows users out there who, while surfing, come across a link to one of the pages and says, "Huh! Someone's even made a 'blog' about hot chocolate! How ridiculous! *click* Oh darn, it's something about computers or something." That would explain the number of IE users, at least, if not a portion of the Windows users overall.

Thomas Swift — Dec 14, 06 2702

I was a work reader on IE/FF on windows although it was more for Cocoa Dev Central, I'd read it on downtime. It's a great resource. But now, safari all the way!

Blain — Dec 14, 06 2703

Same here. Every once in a while, I check from work with IE (which lovingly mangles the top of Theocacao, by the way). The interesting thing would be the regions of the IP addresses (How large a presence is the Europeans?) and were it possible to check by region and time, how large the difference in windows traffic is during normal business hours.

Jonathan — Dec 16, 06 2718

I also read from school on windows computers. Usually I use firefox, but there are a few computers which don't have it installed (and mobile firefox takes quite a while to start from a flash drive, so reading mangled pages from IE is often preferable to waiting)

RobInNZ — Dec 20, 06 2781

Definitely browsing from work for me :-)

Being a Microsoft-shop, our standard build has IE6 for a browser, though most of us techs also manage to get the internal administrator to give us enough rights, and then to look the other way for long enough to install FireFox.

The only time I use FF on the Mac at home is to access the work Citrix server. Safari just doesnt seem to play nice with the Citrix client (which I think is related to our versions of the Citrix web gateway). Compared to Safari, Firefox is painfully slow to start and just plain doesnt look right on OS X.

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