I have some Google Modules (aka Gadgets, aka Widgets) that are quiet popular with several hundred thousand of views a month. And for the month of August I used an analytics tool to find out what users Google has. I am now showing you some collected data.
Operating System
Windows XP — 83.7 %
Windows Vista — 8.5 %
Mac OS — 4.0 %
Windows 2000 — 1.8 %
Linux — 0.8 %
Windows 98 — 0.6 %
Windows Server 2003 — 0.3 %
Unknown — 0.1 %
Windows Me — 0.0 % (2 Users)
SunOS — 0.0 % (1 User)
This is now the ultimate proof that a) the Module users aren’t geeks and that b) Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. Windows 2000 is twice more used that Linux.
Browsers
The Internet Explorer still is the most used browser.
Internet Explorer 7.0 — 36.7 %
Firefox 2.0 — 29.8 %
Internet Explorer 6.0 — 27.9 %
Firefox 1.5 — 1.8 %
Safari 419.3 — 1.5 %
Safari 522.1 — 0.7 %
Firefox 1.0 — 0.4 %
Opera 9.2 — 0.2 %
Netscape 7.1 — 0.1 %
Safari 312.6 — 0.1 %
Plugins
Java — 99.7 %
Flash — 98.4 %
Windowsmedia — 88.2 %
Quicktime — 64.6 %
Realplayer — 51.7 %
Pdf — 48.1 %
Director — 26.9 %
Wow, 51% of the users have Real Player installed, but only 48% use PDF. Is PDF now a standard? Should the percentage not be higher? Like the awesome 99.7% JAVA has.
Resolution
The classical 4:3 resolution is clearly preferred. I still hope my prediction is becoming true 😉
Are you surprised by some of these numbers? Have you expected other results or show your analytics completely different results?