Flukeit

Brian Gardner blogged about checking his site statistics and noticing how over 60% of his site visitors were using Firefox, while just over 20% were using Internet Explorer. Just aroused my curiosity, so I checked the stats for a couple of my blogs and found the contrary.

According to Google Analytics on site A, Internet Explorer runs away with the prize by roughly 70% to 20% as shown here:

Checking stats from site B revealed something altogether different. The margin is much wider as shown:

While site A is a blog about reviews and is more consumer oriented, and site B is a blog directory that might be visited by more experienced with the web, we could make the argument that internet users who are more savvy to the internet are more likely to be using Firefox Browser. Most people, in my opinion, simply use what came prepackaged on their computer.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to remake a website that was Drupal based, and make is a Wordpress site.

Now you would think that I would learn, because I preach this to others but never remember myself. Before you get too far along in a site, check it with other browsers and resolution settings.

Once again, I took it for granted.

I got pretty far into my new Wordpress theme. I was near three hours into recoding and rebuilding this site until I had to go to work. At my “Real Job” I was checking on some things using a different computer. My stomach sank when I looked at my new site and it was half gone.

I realized that using the Liquid Summer 1.0 theme, it looks awesome with Firefox but with Internet Explorer, forget it. I decided quickly that I would be better off just scrapping and starting with a different theme than to try to make this one work.