Having launched a blog a week ago, and having 99% of my traffic come from Reddit I thought I would have a look at the reported browser and operating system usage that the site has seen. After all with a sample size of 1000, it might give some indication as what Reddit users, specifically subscribers to the Linux subreddit are using. More importantly it might even give us a clue as to how many of the Linux Reddit subscribers are actually using linux (not that it is in any way mandatory of course, regardless of what people say in the comments).

So here is the first, and probably less interesting table of the two.

Unsurprisingly this is somewhat different to what I am used to seeing on sites with a less geeky (or in this case Linuxy) target audience, although not by much, Firefox seems to have grown to about a 55% market share across the sites that I manage (although most are still on the subject of open source so it’s not that surprising.

As to operating systems, well its an even(ish) split. Massively more than I see on the other sites I manage (Linux usually comes in at 12%).

Just in case anyone cares, and it should be fairly easy to approximate form above, people using Firefox on Windows make up 284 of the total, 26 less than those on Linux using Firefox, (although there there are 56 Mac users on Firefox too), Opera however is more popular on Windows (26 vs 22).

So there you go. I should probably say thank you to the 25 people who made it to the site on dial up (and I apologise for the advert, although I assume you are running with adblock, flashblock and, if you have any sense, images disabled…) and the one person who tried to read it at 240×320, I assume you are part of the demographic(of 27) who spent 601-1,800 seconds on site.