Latest Radio NZ Browser stats

The latest browser stats for www.radionz.co.nz show some interesting changes when compared to previous years.

Browser	2011	2010	2009	2008
IE	41.2	50.6	56	63
Firefox	23.2	25.52	27.5	27.73
Safari	5.6	13.1	10	5.66
Chrome	13.8	8.75	4.2	1.47
Opera	0.7	0.9	1.02	1.08

IE is in decline, and IE6 is currently 3.6% of total browser share. Operating system use is also changing.

OS	2011	2010	2009	2008
Windows	72	81	84.8	89.3
Mac	15.6	14.2	12.6	8.5
Android	3.6	0.3	0.02	0
iPhone	2.5	1.4	0.56	0.19
iPad	2.4	0.63	0	0
Linux	1.53	1.4	1.45	1.72
iPod	0.5	0.35	0.22	0.08

Windows use is dropping, and mobile operating systems are on the rise. Mac use in 2005 was less than 5%.

The breakdown of mobile devices share in the last month:

Android - 38
iPhone - 27
iPad - 26
iPod - 5.33
Blackberry - 0.8
Symbian - 0.7
Sony - 0.19
Windows - 0.12
Nokia - 0.11
Windows Phone - 0.1

iPad users spend on average twice as long on the site.

Over on Geekzone Mauricio has posted page speed info for his website.

Here is similar information for Radio New Zealand.

Average web page load time distribution in New Zealand:

All regions:

Slowest cities:

This is running on a server based at ICONZ running Rails 3.1.x.

The key thing we've done to make our site fast is reducing over-the-wire times by bundling assets, using compression where we can, and setting far-future headers for static content to ensure it can be cached somewhere else. The markup is also as clean as we can make it to ensure fast rendering.