Since our current Squid stats [1] don't look very accurate or precise, I decided to generate something myself based on the logs we have. I analyzed a week's worth of logs, from 2013-06-10 to 2013-06-16. I generated three sets of data:

* minor: browsers grouped by their minor version, e.g. all Androids 4.2 go together, all Safaris 5.1, etc. * major: browsers grouped by their major version, e.g. all Androids 4 go together, all Safaris 5, etc. * vendor: browsers grouped by their name only, e.g. all Androids go together, all Safaris, etc.

Each group has also an additional file with all the unknown user agents logged (they are logged as "Other" in the main files). Everything is available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/840ftlrfygtou4m/browser-stats-mobile-20130610-2013...

Most of it looks like I expected, the market is shared mostly among mobile Safari and Android. What I hadn't expected is that Android 2.3 is still the most popular Android at 9.79%. That's a lot. I started thinking what we could do about this. After some googling I found lots of Android 2.x users frustrated by the fact that Chrome is not available for Android older than 4 and they're stuck with a crappy browser.

I tried looking for an alternative and I found it rather quickly: Firefox. Mobile Firefox is a sad 0.26% of our users, even less than desktop Firefox (0.29%)! I tried installing it on the first Google Nexus and hey, maybe it's not superfast, but it's better than the stock Android 2.3 browser and supports both photo uploading and our new editor really well (stock Android 2.3 doesn't support uploads and the editor is... quite wonky). So, my suggestion is: let's show a banner or a call to action for Android 2.x users telling them about this and encouraging them to try Firefox. It's free open software and I think it's better than what stock Android 2.x browser is. What do you think? Wikimedia Foundation <3 Mozilla Foundation? ;)

Unrecognized browsers are mostly bots with one notable exception, NativeHost, which is probably the Windows Phone app (I'm guessing [2]).

[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13306090/how-do-i-change-the-nativehost-s...