On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I was wondering if there has been any analysis on the types of
browsers that users use to access MediaWiki sites. I've been working
on the MobileFrontend extension and am keen to understand the audience
better. I've had a look around the internet but it's a big place and
I've not found anything yet. :)

In particular I was interested if there is any evidence that certain
people in certain countries use Wikipedia's/other mediawiki instance
mobile site on desktop computers due to the lower page size/load and
what browsers they use to do this.

It's taken some more time than I had hoped, partly because there were some troubles in the recognition of mobile and non-mobile browsers, but I now have some data on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Pageviews/Mobile/Results. They contain the language and geographical distribution of visits to the mobile site, and the mobile devices that have been used. The non-mobile percentage is somewhat higher than I earlier said, whether that is caused by the old data being wrong (by counting many desktop Safari visits as Android), or it is a change since August, I do not know. Based on your later message, I will now go and do a check on exactly which non-mobile browsers and browser versions have been used.

André Engels