In only three months of being online, ConservaBlogs.com has jumped into the top 9,000 blogs at Technorati and we’ve gone from 6,000 visits the first month to what is shaping up to be more than 25,000 visits for March.

This growth has allowed me to view some very interesting statistics. It was difficult during the first month because I knew that the stats were skewed due to such small amounts of traffic. Now, however, the stats are large enough to actually be taken seriously.

The most surprising statistic has been the user browsers. Let’s take a look.

Firefox 47 %
MS Internet Explorer 33.8 %
Unknown 8.8 %
Safari 3.7 %
Mozilla 3.3 %
Opera 1.8 %
Netscape 0.3 %
Camino 0.3 %
Konqueror 0.1 %
K-Meleon 0 %

Clearly, Firefox is walking all over Microsoft’s IE Explorer. Also, I would add that the majority of our network readers come here for POLITICS. If the entire site, not just my blog, were geared towards the tech community, one would expect browsers other than IE to be used. But for a political site to be sitting at 47% you have to consider the implications.

In Other Browser War News

In the small to medium size business market, Firefox is enjoying strong gains.

Firefox’s share of the SMB market increased by 1.35% in February alone to reach 38.95%, while Internet Explorer saw its share drop 0.73% to 56.95%.

And in Europe Firefox is crushing Microsoft in the great browser wars.

A survey carried out between the 5th & 11th of March has shown that FireFox has overtaken IE7 in 14 of the 30 European countries involved. This must be seen as a blow for the Microsoft browser surely, IE7 is a major update and the fact that it’s being shipped out to most PC’s on the planet has still not stopped FireFox climbing the percentages.

Needless to say, Firefox is quickly becoming a major player in the browser realm. I have yet to meet a new Firefox user who tries the browser, and then switches back to IE.

Interesting. Interesting indeed.

-Eric Odom