Stack Overflow 2010 Analytics

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by phwd • 16 years ago

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yuvadam• 16 years ago

tl;dr; - visitors are more spread out on the globe, Google is the undefeated referrer, SO visitors love Firefox, Windows, and screen resolutions are getting bigger and wider.

Nothing too interesting, really.

jdludlow2• 16 years ago

iOS will jump up sharply from 0.4% in 2011 if the folks at Stack Overflow make the site usable with that system. From mobile Safari the site is crippled. You can type in an answer, but the formatting tools and preview panes don't work at all.

imack• 16 years ago

The most common use case of Stack Overflow will be a programmer working away on code encountering a problem, googling for a fix, and finding it on stack overflow. I don't see how mobile would enhance that.

While I appreciate there are a few hardcores who will want to answer questions on the go, I can't see that being a big priority.

tednaleid• 16 years ago

As an anecdotal point of reference, I monitor a number of stackoverflow categories with RSS feeds. I commonly read and answer these feeds with Reeder on my iPad sitting in a comfy chair in my living room, not at my computer.

I answer less questions than I normally would if the interface were better.

(maybe this is fitting into the definition of "a few hardcores" for you though)

jdludlow2• 16 years ago

There are many questions that I don't answer, because I'm on my iPad, and it's way too much of a pain to bother.

You're also focused on the users of SO specifically. There are Area 51 sites that would be more prone to having users on mobile devices.

thierryd• 16 years ago

Checkout http://stackmobile.com/

callmeed• 16 years ago

I'm surprised by the number of IE users—seems high for a community of devs.

tl• 16 years ago

I'm not; the site's first userbase was .NET developers. Some percent of people looking up those answers are doing so from a company pc that may not allow anything else.

beaumartinez• 16 years ago

Well, I assume a lot of the users are pretty much forced to use their company's computer's sole browser... IE.

kachnuv_ocasek• 16 years ago

Not everyone is hipsterfag.

icco• 16 years ago

I was more blown away by the number of Windows users, the IE numbers seem pretty reasonable, especially considering the huge .NET crowd there.

zyb09• 16 years ago

Well these are World stats, not Palo Alto stats. Windows dominating shouln't be a surprise really.

Encosia• 16 years ago

You shouldn't conflate .NET and IE usage. I can only think of a few .NET web developers who use IE by choice.

More likely, corporate developers of every flavor are more often locked into IE by company policy. It would be interesting to see those browser usage stats broken down by language. I bet Java and .NET would have similar IE usage.

brc• 16 years ago

Not all developers are web developers, your average corp developer working on non-web solutions probably couldn't care less.

I use IE quite a lot for general browsing. The latest versions aren't that bad, and aren't as memory hungry as Firefox.

citricsquid• 16 years ago

The size of India vs. United Kingdom and the relatively similar visit percentage is interesting. Does this mean the UK has a large number of devs or India has a small number?

paraschopra• 16 years ago

You should not compare absolute population of two countries. Rather you should compare population with Internet/computer access which I'm guessing should be similar.

PS: On a similar note I'm surprised China is missing from the list.

aadvaark• 16 years ago

And the number of people comfortable with English.

DanielN• 16 years ago

Can anyone explain to me how they get user screen resolutions?

jules• 16 years ago

Search for "javascript screen resolution".

thechangelog• 16 years ago

Google Analytics provides resolution and colour depth info.

ronnier• 16 years ago

JavaScript: screen.width, screen.height

Jun8• 16 years ago

Why no Russia in top countries? Do they have a similar site?

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