Some more 1 Million posts stats

[Dos_Box]

As requested by several of you last week I have been doing some mining through our analytics and can now present some nice graphs showing the growth and decline of certain versions of Windows, Browsers and which O/S's have visited EduGeek over the past 5/6 years. Some make for interesting viewing!

 

So, first off, Windows versions:

 

 

As you can see, Windows 7 has been 'da bomb' since its launch and has shot head and shoulders above any other Windows versions. Interestingly, see the difference from when XP was it its peak and the take up of 7?

However not to be outdone, observe how Windows 8 has taken off in its first year? Pretty much the same as 7 did on when it was released. We'll have to give it another 12 months to see how that pans out growth-wise though.

And some of you said you hate it. Shame on you.

In case you were wondering, the last recorded stats we have for Windows 98 and ME (yes, people were still using ME until recently!) were, for Windows 98 the period 2012-2013 with 235 visits and for ME the period 2011-2012 with 37 visits.

Windows 95 died off in the 2008-2009 period with a mere 27 visits!

However, we still see several thousand Windows 2000 (non-server) visits per year (4061 in the past 12 months) and I wonder how long that will be hanging around for?

 

Now for all operating systems:

 

 

And that's pretty conclusive. It's Windows FTW with OSX and Linux barely making a dent and for the past 3 years they have effectively flat-lined whilst Windows had grown and grown.

 

And last but by no means least, browsers:

 

 

What I find interesting with this graph is not the meteoric rise of Chrome as the browser of choice for most 'Geekers, but of the parallel use of Firefox and IE. Considering that Firefox has to be added as a separate install compared to IE's ubiquitous presence on all Windows operating systems it does seem to indicate that an equal amount of people want to use something other than IE. What I'm looking forwards to seeing in the next 12 months is how that pegging of IE and Firefox compares to the use of Chrome.

As you can also see at the bottom of graph Safari and Opera are way down on the list, and in Opera's case I wonder just who uses that in preference to the others?!

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing these and it took me the best part of Friday afternoon to knock them up, so if you have any other idea of what you would like to see please let me know, but please note that we are rather busy atm and it does take some time to sort out. Oh, and if you can see any trends in the data that I may have missed, please feel free to point them out.

[AngryTechnician]

Windows 95 died off in the 2008-2009 period with a mere 27 visits!

Let's all fire up some VMs and see if we can beat that for 2013-14...

[Dos_Box]

Let's all fire up some VMs and see if we can beat that for 2013-14...

 

I was envisioning @SimpleSi crying as he switched them off for the last time

[sted]

Let's all fire up some VMs and see if we can beat that for 2013-14...

 

and just to really fudge it up lets see if we can get them running opera or safari lol

 

suprised by the low score for ios and with all the pc is dead talk its still growing at a steady rate

[Dos_Box]

and just to really fudge it up lets see if we can get them running opera or safari lol

 

suprised by the low score for ios and with all the pc is dead talk its still growing at a steady rate

 

And Linux seems to be almost level pegging with OSX too.

I suspect the low OSX score has a lot to do with schools having more Macs than ever these days but that the overall networks are being managed by people using Windows desktops.

[SimpleSi]

Win95???? I skipped that one - went straight from WfWG 3.11 to Win98SE

 

Simon

 

Although I did make a Win95 VM for a senior citizen on his new Win7 machines so he could run his old programs

[tom_newton]

How do the different versions of IE pan out? Interesting to see if, as predicted, IE users have become more update-prone

Wonder how these compare to netcraft's figures - are we different from the population at large? Does anything change radically between, say the UK school day and evening times?

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Win95???? I skipped that one - went straight from WfWG 3.11 to Win98SE

 

Me too,

 

I never got to enjoy that lovely musical interlude you got when logging onto '95

[sted]

How do the different versions of IE pan out? Interesting to see if, as predicted, IE users have become more update-prone

Wonder how these compare to netcraft's figures - are we different from the population at large? Does anything change radically between, say the UK school day and evening times?

 

i suspect theres a lot of 8 and the rest are lower (trying to keep same version across multiple platforms) and 10 ignores the proxy settings weve been using for years and i still dont think gpp are reliable for this sems to be hit and miss)

[Dos_Box]

How do the different versions of IE pan out? Interesting to see if, as predicted, IE users have become more update-prone

Wonder how these compare to netcraft's figures - are we different from the population at large? Does anything change radically between, say the UK school day and evening times?

 

Hmm. Give me a day or so and I'll knock up an IE chart if you like.

[Dos_Box]

i suspect theres a lot of 8 and the rest are lower (trying to keep same version across multiple platforms) and 10 ignores the proxy settings weve been using for years and i still dont think gpp are reliable for this sems to be hit and miss)

 

In the past 12 months it looks like this:

 

 

1. 9
   
2. 10
   
3. 8
   
4. 7
   
5. 6
   

 

Don't make me go into details yet though!