How the browser wars play out at Nestoria

Regular readers may have noticed that at Nestoria, we like to pay attention to our visitors.

We believe that doing this enables us to produce the best end user experience for you, making house hunting quick, easy and pleasurable.

One way we do this is by checking out which web browsers our users prefer. Since we launched, we’ve noticed that less and less of our users favour Firefox, with most users using the Windows-bundled Internet Explorer (users of more obscure browsers, apologies, we’re focusing on presenting the IE/FF fight for now).

You can see that initially, the % of firefox users was pretty high – we reckon that this is down to techy types checking out Nestoria, then as the masses take over – perhaps from work (mostly Internet Explorer, thanks to the IT departments), the % of people on Nestoria using Firefox dips (click the graph below for a bigger version).

Browser statistics - % Firefox views (of Firefox and Internet Explorer pageviews combined)

We’ve also noted that the takeup of both the new version of Internet Explorer (7) and Firefox (2) has been pretty impressive and rapid. The two browsers were released in October 2006, and today account for approximately 50% of page views when compared to total Internet Explorer page views and Firefox page views respectively.

Internet Explorer 7 uptake graph:

Internet Explorer 7 uptake graph

Firefox 2 uptake graph:

Firefox 2 uptake graph

Rest assured, whichever browser you prefer, we do our best to make sure that your experience on Nestoria is as good as it can be.

Try us out, and let us know what you think.

  • Happy to help!

    I agree - IE7 brings IE into the modern era of browsers.

    Thanks again for your comments
  • housereview
    Yes, of housereview.com

    I can indeed see the comment - so you have, another happy user - Thanks! :)

    Note: IE7 is a critical update, so most users should be using IE7 before very long, it's a big improvement.
  • Ahmed (Poster)
    Hi housereview (of housereview.com?),

    Thanks for your comment.

    I've now made a tiny change to the blog and am testing this using:

    Opera Version 9.10, Build 3588 for Mac OS X - not logged in (so am posting as you should be).

    If you can see this comment, you should be good to go with Opera on the Nestoria blog from now on.

    Both Wordpress and Movable Type have their benefits.

    We try to make all users happy whenever possible :)

    Ahmed
  • housereview
    Have to say, I normally use Opera to view your blog, however I don't think that Wordpress comment system works with it - so I use IE7 for this. Perhaps consider movable type?
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