#browserstats — Public Fediverse posts

Another month gone, they pass so quickly. Here’s a snippet of the GOV.UK website’s visitors in July 2024.

STATS! #browsers #browserstats #webdev

Caveats:
- This data only includes users with JavaScript available and who opted into accepting analytics cookies.
- Mobile device numbers are likely inflated compared to other devices, as the analytics consent banner is more visually intrusive on smaller screens.
- Browsers that automatically block analytics tracking will, by their nature, not be represented or appear underrepresented in data.
- Although GOV.UK draws many international visitors, it’s a UK-centric website and the vast majority of sessions originate from within the UK.
- Month-by-month changes can be heavily influenced by public holidays and may not represent wider or ongoing trends.

Total sessions between 1st and 31st July 2024: 92,893,970 (+4.60% on June)

This month, I’ve bumped some of the lists to showing top 10s instead of just top 5s. There tends to be more movement outside of the big few browsers, and it’s interesting!

STATS! #browsers #browserstats #webdev

Caveats:
- This data only includes users with JavaScript available and who opted into accepting analytics cookies.
- Mobile device numbers are likely inflated compared to other devices, as the cookie consent banner is more visually intrusive on smaller screens.
- Browsers that automatically block analytics tracking will, by their nature, not be represented or appear underrepresented in data.
- Although GOV.UK draws many international visitors, it’s a UK-centric website and the vast majority of sessions originate from within the UK.
- Month-by-month changes can be heavily influenced by public holidays and may not represent wider or ongoing trends.

Total sessions between 1st and 30th June 2024: 88,811,411

Another month, s’more #browserstats from the GOV.UK website.

I’ve slightly changed how some things are worked out behind the scenes. Direct percentage comparisons with last month probably won’t add up quite right because of the slightly different methodologies.

The numbers Google Analytics was giving me (quite literally) did not add up. GA’s export was giving significantly higher session counts than what the segmented data would add up to.

Not sure what was up with that—answers on a postcard, please—but this month I’m using the sum of the segments rather than the totals as-given by GA, which means they’re all a going to be a touch lower than in previous months.

#browsers #webdev

I'm probably going to start putting this in a spreadsheet somewhere to make everyone's lives easier, but for now, on with the show.

#browsers #browserstats #webdev

Caveats:
- This data only includes users with JavaScript available and who opted into accepting analytics cookies.
- Mobile device numbers are likely inflated compared to other devices, as the cookie consent banner is more visually intrusive on smaller screens.
- Browsers that automatically block analytics tracking will, by their nature, not be represented.
- Although GOV.UK draws many international visitors, it’s a UK-centric website and the vast majority of sessions originate from within the UK.
- Month-by-month changes can be heavily influenced by public holidays and may not represent wider or ongoing trends.

Total sessions between 1st and 30th April 2024: 95,362,796

This month I’ve started adding differences compared to the same data point from last month.

This isn’t necessarily representative of wider trends, as the number of working days versus weekend and public holiday days can cause noticeable differences in the levels of desktop OS/browser usage as people spend more or less time in offices.

#browsers #browserstats #webdev

Caveats:
- This is only users with JavaScript available and who opted into accepting analytics cookies.
- Browsers that automatically block analytics tracking will, by their nature, not be represented.
- Mobile device numbers are likely inflated compared to other devices, as GOV.UK's cookie consent banner is more visually intrusive on smaller screens.
- Although GOV.UK draws many international visitors, it’s a UK-centric website and the vast majority of sessions originate from within the UK.

Total sessions between 1st and 31st March 2024: 88,279,634

A juicy browser data roundup for you.

I should probably start collating this somewhere more useful like a GitHub repo or something, but that’s a future me problem.

#browsers #browserstats #webdev

Caveats:
- This is only users with JavaScript available and who opted into accepting analytics cookies.
- Browsers that automatically block analytics tracking will, by their nature, not be represented.
- Mobile device numbers are likely inflated compared to other devices, as the cookie consent banner is more visually intrusive on smaller screens.
- Although GOV.UK draws many international visitors, it’s a UK-centric website and the vast majority of sessions originate from within the UK.

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Total sessions between 1st and 29th February 2024: 86,863,912