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-20130610-201…
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-…
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Juliusz