I have always been amazed at how fast a new Mac OS X update is adopted by the community, so I have been checking the statistics for visitors to this site (all statistics quoted here are for the month of September). Among Mac users, Snow Leopard has passed Leopard (it happened over a week ago, but hasn’t changed much since then):

  • 10.6 Snow Leopard 47.0%
  • 10.5 Leopard 44.2%
  • 10.4 Tiger 7.3%
  • Other 1.5%

While looking through the stats, I thought it would be interesting to share some other information about our rather unique demographic.

Browser popularity is upside down with Firefox the most popular and Internet Explorer in 3rd place:

  • Firefox 50.9%
  • Safari 24.9%
  • Internet Explorer 17.2%
  • Chrome 1.0%
  • Other 6.0%

Mac users are closing in on Windows users, with a strong showing from Linux users (but basically nothing else, most of the “Other” was “not set” and a small part being iPhone):

  • Windows 44.4%
  • Mac 40.3%
  • Linux 14.2%
  • Other 1.1%

Geographic location shows a long tail distribution (with 62 countries appearing):

  • United States 48.8%
  • Germany 6.9%
  • United Kingdom 6.5%
  • China 5.5%
  • Canada 3.9%
  • Australia 3.7%
  • France 2.6%
  • Italy 2.5%
  • Brazil 2.4%
  • Netherlands 2.0%
  • Japan 1.8%
  • Spain 1.6%
  • Other 11.8%

I need to remember that over 50% of readers are not from the US.