Rowan Simpson, Trade Me and Browser Wars 2.0

With the conversation going on regarding IE7's 100 million installation (thanks Tony), the contrasting Infoweek article and also Richard's Maxthon take, I was interested to see that Rowan has posted Trade Me's logs for December on his blog.

If you analyse Rowans numbers further it shows that in the 6 month period from July 2006 to Dec 2006 that IE (all flavours) lost about 1.36% to FF's gain of 1.1% amongst Trade Me customers.

Net Applications claims that during the same period IE lost 3.92% to FF's 2.66% gain.

I wonder if this is partly due to the large growth in Macintosh® computers over the last quarter.

Given this information (even though it is global) one would assume that the number of safari users on Trade Me would have also gone up more than 0.5%.

Since the advent of intel mac and parallels I've talked to a few people that are using a Mac to run both OSX and Windows. On Windows they use IE7 and on OS X they use FF.

Just another take on the same old argument that is doing the rounds... I'm sure we'd see this number leap again if apple allows FF to be installed on the iPhone ;)

On another note Rowan has also posted that as of the 9th Jan Trade Me is 100% ASP .NET 2.0! 

It was almost a year to the day that Trade Me released the first pieces of .Net onto their site and it's been great to read Rowan's after migration summary post.

Brad Abrams has sighted some other real world customer migration experiences on his blog.