Browsers and Screen Size on Stack Overflow
The question occasionally comes up: what web browsers do Stack Overflow users tend to use? Here’s a quick look at our Analytics data from June 1st – August 19th. Firefox 50.53% Internet Explorer 29.12% Chrome 9.04% Safari 7.33% Opera 2.44% Mozilla 1.15% Konqueror 0.10% Note that within Internet Explorer, the breakdown is 45% IE7, 29%…
Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
The question occasionally comes up: what web browsers do Stack Overflow users tend to use?
Here’s a quick look at our Analytics data from June 1st – August 19th.
| Firefox | 50.53% |
| Internet Explorer | 29.12% |
| Chrome | 9.04% |
| Safari | 7.33% |
| Opera | 2.44% |
| Mozilla | 1.15% |
| Konqueror | 0.10% |
Note that within Internet Explorer, the breakdown is 45% IE7, 29% IE8, and — this is depressing — 24% IE6. Which means that about 7% of our overall audience is still on creaky, broken, ancient old IE6. The Firefox breakdown is primarily 3.0 and 3.5, with a smattering of older versions.
As for the screen size of Stack Overflow users:
| 1280×1024 | 24.03% |
| 1680×1050 | 14.52% |
| 1280×800 | 14.32% |
| 1024×768 | 12.32% |
| 1440×900 | 11.57% |
| 1920×1200 | 8.40% |
| 1600×1200 | 3.24% |
| 1152×864 | 1.68% |
| 1920×1080 | 1.32% |
| 1400×1050 | 1.28% |
Those resolutions account for about 90% of the audience — those that report this data back to Analytics, anyway.
(Just as an aside, in case anyone was waiting for the podcast: as noted on last week’s episode, there will be no podcast recording this week.)
