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5% of 'the market' does not translate to 5% of users on your site. Depending on the site's demographic, as a developer, I see approx 15% Mac users making up tr
by justindocanto 14y ago
5% of 'the market' does not translate to 5% of users on your site.
Depending on the site's demographic, as a developer, I see approx 15% Mac users making up traffic. Not to mention an ADDITIONAL 25% iPhone users. That's an average of 40% of apple traffic on the sites I work on. Some of which are getting 30k - 60k hits a month. Obviously this isnt the same stats across the board on all websites... but It is by no means FIVE percent.
- protomyth 14y agoYour Mac number is not far off from Apple's Mac percentage in the US - 12%.
- einhverfr 14y agoIndeed. According to Google, something like 39% of viewers on my blog are running Windows and 9% are running IE. There are more Mac and Linux users together than there are Windows users.... Somehow I don't think this translates to the general market.
- josephcooney 14y agoRight. This was a few years ago, but a major web-site that I was involved with (+1M visitors per day) had more people running windows 3.1 than Linux.
- einhverfr 14y agoI suspect it depends on your audience. My audience is not consumers, but PostgreSQL and Perl folks, so Windows is going to be under-represented.
- andreyf 14y agoWindows 3.1, really?
- josephcooney 14y agoYup, really. I was as surprised as the next person.
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- eli 14y agoThe point isn't whether there are 5% or 15% Mac users -- it's that you're ignoring 85%+ of non-Mac users.