Operating Systems & Browsers used to access the forum

Operating Systems used to access the forum (in the month of May 2023)

Windows 48% of visits
Android 21.3%
Macintosh 13.1%
iOS 12.2%
Linux 2.7%
Unix 1.4%
PlayStation 0.6%
BSD 0.4%
Java Mobile 0.2%
Others 0.1%


Browsers used to access the forum (in the month of May 2023)

Chrome 62% of visits
Safari 21.3%
Firefox 13%
Opera 2.6%
Edge 0.3%
Internet Explorer 0.3%
Android 0.2%
iPhone 0.1%
Netscape 0.1%
Others 0.1%

Netscape? The final release was 16 years ago and people are still using it?

Even those using current browsers are not necessarily using the latest versions of them. Here are some figures for Chrome.


Versions of Chrome used to access the forum (in the month of May 2023) as a percentage of total Chrome visits

Versions 112 - 114 : 59.1%
Versions 103 - 111 : 22.7%
Versions 35 - 102 : 9.9%
Versions 4 - 34 : 8.3%

I use Chrome all the time, but every update seems to be more memory intensive than the last.



I shouldn't be using nearly 4 gigs of ram to run Chrome with one open tab