Forgive the title, but I’ve been looking through my stats and have found some interesting things and made some decisions about design moving forward.
First up, screen resolution. Over 85% of people accessing my site did so at a resolution at or exceeding a width of 1280px. That’s a change from even a year ago, when only about 65% of people ran at that resolution. It’s nice to see upgrades happening.
Next, browsers. IE comes in rocking about 15% of total hits, which made me go SQUEEEEEE. That’s an awesome number to see, and even better: IE6 usage at 0.87%.
Operating System was interesting – the overwhelming majority of people were using Windows (80%+) with Mac a “close” second at a little north of 15%. The other 4% was split roughly between linux and android. Of interest amongst Windows users, though, was the almost even split between XP and 7 (41% to 38%) with Vista a distant third.
Location was perhaps the most interesting thing for me, with nearly 40% of all traffic coming from the USA. Canada was a close second, and then the UK. From there, the list gets very interesting: India, Brazil, Phillipines, Russia, Australia, Malaysia, UAE.
Specific content that was accessed: mostly photos (about 80% of traffic was for photos).
So, I guess I’m going to aim at doing the following:
- More future-facing (HTML5) website. Most users can handle it
- More expansive design – I’ll aim for 1280 wide but degrade nicely.
- Better mobile version – some people are looking from mobile, should accommodate them.
- More photos! I haven’t touched my camera since my most recent familial addition. I should take more photos.