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As you can see, Slashdot provided over 53% of my incoming traffic, Digg at 15%, StumbleUpon at 5%, Google US at 4%, Daring Fireball at 3%, and Del.icio.us at 2.5%. 831 other sites provided the other 17.5%.

Firefox dominates Internet Explorer in the statistics at 48.5% vs 30%, followed by Safari at 8%, and Opera at 4%. All other traffic outside of these three is less than 9.5%. Another interesting thing (though not reflected in the graph) is that people are not adopting IE7 at all: IE6 is over 80% of the IE hits, with IE7 being only 18% (the last 2% being IE4 and 5). Microsoft seems to have screwed up somewhere, people like IE6 better.

Windows is 69.5% of my traffic, which rather sucks. The graph’s Unix slice (being 97% Linux) is at 11.5%. The Macintosh crowd weighs in at 12%. Everyone else is the last 7%. Comparing the OS stats to the browser stats, it should be easy to estimate how much of my Windows users use Firefox:

1. The Macintosh crowd is 12% of the traffic, yet only 8% of the traffic is from Safari, assuming that the other 4% is from Firefox, this brings Firefox’s total down to 44.5%.
2. Assuming all of the Linux crowd uses Firefox (very few people use Konqueror or Opera), another 11.5% is subtracted from Firefox’s total, bringing it down to 33%.
3. Assuming I did my math right (and assuming virtually all Opera users are on Windows), Windows’ total traffic % should be very close (but not exact) to Firefox's 33% + IE's 30% + Opera's 4%. I’m 2.5% off, but that can be accounted for Windows users not using one of those three browsers or those using browser cloaking.
4. Adjusting those four Windows percentages (/69.5*100), Firefox is 47.5% of the Windows market, IE is 43%, and Opera is almost 6%.