Those numbers sound completely off, they're probably extremely outdated. According to Clicky (web analytics company), IE 8, 9 and 10 all added together just barely make up over 1%. I tend to trust an analytics company's data over something like W3Schools data because it's not biased based on a single site which particular types of users, who also happen to use particular browsers, may be more drawn towards.
https://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/internet-explorer/
Also IE10 supports flexbox. The bugs are edge cases which I've never seen in my own personal use and can still be avoided even then.
I've actually even gone one step further and added some code to my framework that means browsers that don't support flexbox still fallback gracefully for simple things like flex-direction -> display: block/inline-block or margin-left: auto -> float: left etc. Whilst I think this isn't a good idea if your primary user base is <IE10, I think it's fine if it's only 2 or 3%.
If you look at the linux only graph I'm not sure the story is so clear. Ubuntu is on the decline. I would expect the sharp rise in "linux" to be linked to the launch of a new mobile device.
Not really, they are clawing back.
Took a look at some recent stats from my own country, and it appears that Bing nearly doubled its market share. Still getting dominated, but its working for them quite a bit.
Hey there! IMO Google Analytics is enough, mostly because it's free and has most of the funcionallity you will need. In this early stage there is no need to pay even small amount of money for just one landing page. If you tried out Analytics, and you are not statisfied with it, you could try out Clicky, Optimizely or Piwik. These may give more insight, but if you don't know what to measure exactly, they will not help you more. Good Luck!
Market Share. When Google does it the other big players have to or they lose Market share. When your as big as Google market share is the most important piece.
Chrome is a good example: https://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/ http://gs.statcounter.com/
“Eat,pray & love” (Movie) - If any of the Characters would have been replaced or dead, I don’t think so I would have watched it more than 10 mins.
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FYI I'm currently testing clicky.com. I really like what i read about fathom, but unless there is some more support through donations or gitcoin grant I'm reluctant to spend $14/month :-/
What kind of data are you after? You can get the basic info by analysing your server logs.
You could self-host? Relying on cloud-based analytics services (particularly proprietary ones) means giving them access to data about all of your site's visitors.
https://clicky.com/ may be an option (although I personally haven't used them) - they're Privacy Shield certified and claim to be fully GDPR compliant.
I do not think it is particularly unreliable. But their methodology mainly uses merchants' sites. So the Chromebooks are underrepresented (assuming their age-group is not old enough to spend much time on merchants' sites).
I think the combination of statcounter (gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide) and clicky (https://clicky.com/marketshare/global/operating-systems/), supported by further evidence from analytics.gov.usa and possibly the stats from pornhub all show that Linux on the desktop is probably in decline. chromeos is doing well, though.
Clicky.
Much much better than GA (Google Analytics) imo.
And it is one of the few Analytics providers that can actually tell how long someone was on a page.
They have free and paid accounts. Paid accounts have really neat features, but the free ones still give you most any stat you would need.
Actually, according to your link, there is a graph.
According to this link, there's an uptick of Linux usage and/or adoption.
(I'm also glad I use adblockers.)
I use Clicky for some projects because it samples data much less than Google Analytics and is quite cheap. Here's a comparison chart with other solutions.
Never thought about using other than GA solutions to bypass AdBlockers. Data skewing bc of ad blockers is a major problem for me and my team thought to solve it by setting up own proxy server between the website and analytics server. I will suggest them trying different visitor statistics solutions too.
I use it with my more public websites because it can be transparently inserted by CloudFlare. Will probably migrate over to my private Piwik server after I get more familiar with it.
Oh I see, well depending on the devs they could either write their own tracking with $_SERVER.
Alternatively they would likely have google analytics. Or if they wanted their data kept away from GA then piwik. Another powerful tracking tool is Clicky.
All these tools have pro's and con's. Clicky is really nice but to get the most out of it you;ll need to pay.
Piwik is self hosted so you'll need decent hardware (If shared hosting I would stay away)
Obviously you know about google analytics though they have a plugin that allows on site stats and a better view of whats going on.