November 03, 2007

According to Janco Associates, as of September Internet Explorer commands a 63.86% market share, down 9.57% from last year. Here's the spread:

Well well welly well then. Lookee here, at this September's Astonished Head chart-thingy:

(Yes, I know it's not equivalent to the fancy Janco chart, because it's only got one year in it. I couldn't be bothered to kludge one together in GIMP...GIMP is new to me and unfamiliar and thus a bit annoying, because I can't just whip things up like I can in Fireworks.)

Explorer use is down to 49.3%, a 10.1% drop from September of 2006. Firefox use is at 29.8%, up 5.6%. Mozilla is up from 1.7% to 8.8%.

The percentage of Firefox users is almost twice as high as it was last year. Mozilla users have multiplied like rabbits, and increased their percentage more than fivefold. But what makes me happy is not so much the spread between Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and other browsers as the overall drop in Internet Explorer share.

Based on the reduction in Explorer use, the Astonished Head readership is 14.56% cooler, tech-savvier, and more awesome than the overall Internet-surfing public, a .53% improvement over last year. In addition, by interpolating these results with other statistical data gathered by the site, my readership has better hair, snappier clothes, and more orgasms per week than the plebian, non-Astonished Head reading masses.

So: congratulations, everyone! Read Astonished Head, use non-Microsoft products, and become an improved human being.