I like to do this occasionally and give out some stats that aren’t usually seen by others. Today’s episode is browser usage for accessing this site.

It’s not surprising that as this blog is mostly aimed at technical issues that the top 3 or even 5 browsers are those that are newer ones on the market or recognised as being used by those that are:

• clued up about security or
• nerdy or
• recognise some shortcomings in IE or
• some other reason

Whatever the reason(s) for using the browsers the above chart breaks down this way (%ages rounded up/down):

• Firefox – 40%
• IE8 – 28%
• Chrome – 13%
• Safari 4 – 9%
• iPhone – 5%
• IE6 – 2%
• IE7 – 2%
• Opera 9 – 1%

The only other thing that surprises me is that there aren’t any other browsers used – that or the analytics doesn’t recognise them as separate entities and lumps them under another category. For example, is the iPhone the only mobile browser to have accessed this site? On the face of the figures UI have to say yes but experience says it’s more likely to be a mix.

Just read over at Blogoscoped.com about google’s latest tilt at worl^H^H^Hinternet domination.

Apparently they have a browser project in the works codenamed Google Chrome – but blogoscoped tells it far better than I can, so pop on over and have a read.

UPDATE: (Sept 4th) Go grab yourself a copy from Googles front page – I won’t bother with a link as you’ll likely have a different localised one to me.