Recently in my tiny segment of the net i've noticed a rise in Ubuntu devices hitting the sites.
Averaged across all sites it's :
1. Windows desktop.
2. IOS.
3. Android.
4. Ubuntu.
Anyone else getting the same or who'd like to share general device hits?
Very small sample on a new blog: lots of iOS.
Looks like Linux is still quite small as an overall percentage.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-201510-201805
Android is clearly on the rise. I am not sure if ChromeOS equals Android in the stats. I'd love to get Amazon's data on OS and actual purchases.
Medium site (60,000 users last 30 days, overall traffic up 6% YOY)
- iOS - 45%, up 18% YOY
- Windows - 28%, down 5% YOY
- Macintosh - 14%, down 13%
- Android - 12%, up 11%
- Linux, 0.6%, up 108%
Desktop traffic only
- Windows, 64%, down 5%
- Mac - 33%, down 13%
- Linux - 1.4%, up 109%
- ChromeOS - 1%, up 1%
Mobile traffic only
- iOS, 77%, up 25%
- Android, 23%, up 12%
- windows, 0.04% (yep, 11 visits and still beating Blackberry), down 57%
Small e-comm site (7000 users last 30 days), all traffic (overall traffic down 12%)
- Windows, 39%, down 9%
- iOs, 25%, down 14%
...
#5 is Linux, 2.5%, up 55% YOY
Another site... 36,000 users last 30, up 10% YOY, brochure site
Windows, 67%, up 2% YOY
Mac, 17%, down 3%
iOS, 10%, up 100%
Android, 3%, up 451%
Linux, 2%, up 224%
Brochure Site that is, yes, still not responsive (they are finally in the middle of a rebuild now) , 86000 users last 30, down 21% YOY is losing traffic from every OS except 24% up for Linux
So it seems like there's a little push for Linux of late
I see data from a number of mid-sized sites and the variance site to site is massive. Two examples of sites with similar audience sizes (approx 5m pageviews/month from US):
Automotive site
41% Android
26% Windows
28% IOS
6% Macintosh
<1% Linux
Health/Home remedies
42% IOS
37% Android
15% Windows
5% Macintosh
1% ChromeOS
Similar unique patterns across much of our book. Unfortunately we don't measure OS as an aggregate. Might be interesting to see that by GEO for a billion+ pageviews per month, but it isn't a valuable metric for us.
Ergo, your Linux stats seem high. Are those sites technology related?
Here is the Core for June.
Linux 47.9%
- Android 1.7%
- Ubuntu 0.4%
- GNU Linux (Unknown or unspecified distribution) 45.7%
Windows 40.2%
iOS 0.5%
Mac 9.5%
Other 1.6%
Clearly not the norm.
Quote from: littleman on June 27, 2018, 08:56:23 PM
Ergo, your Linux stats seem high. Are those sites technology related?
Not in the least. I think it was two national parks travel sites, a corporate brochure site (non-tech), and I think there was a blog thrown in there.
UK automotive, 6 digit users/month:
iOS 45%, up 1% year-on-year
Windows 30%, down 2%
Android 19%, up 2%
Mac OS 5%, static
Linux 0.2%, down 0.1%
Windows Phone 0.2%, down 0.1%
Chrome OS 0.2%, static
Trend: Mobile OS's rising. This could be bad for desktop Linux. We need a (not Android) Linux for tablet and Phone.
Interesting stats. I'm tiring of firefox, i use puffin on android now, great speed results in the tests i read.
FF has got so clunky over the past 5 years or so, great for security/privacy, and no netcore or aspnet vulnerabilities but clunking along, loading YT home page on FF is a joke, even on my gaming machine (4790k at 4.4).
Puffin lacks a few features but it'll obviously improve.
Quote from: Brad on June 28, 2018, 10:37:31 AM
Trend: Mobile OS's rising. This could be bad for desktop Linux. We need a (not Android) Linux for tablet and Phone.
There is some interesting stuff going on with Linux development for ARM procesors laitly. I think there is a good chance the work being done on the Raspberry Pi could end up in a Chromebook like device some day.
Also, there are lots of options to get Linux functionality into Android devices, like Gnuroot. I have Debian through Gnuroot on my cell phone.
Android is basically a shackled, web-centric Linux distribution made to be hard to break, but you can geek it out plenty if you want to.