# 2012 in Review

DevFeed: [2012 in Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/2012-in-review-52427.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/2012-in-review/>)

Published: 2013-01-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jack Franklin](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jack-franklin.md>)

Topics: [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browsers.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [Internet Explorer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet-explorer.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [internet-explorer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet-explorer.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

A year-in-review post reports the blog's visitor, browser, operating-system, and publishing statistics for its first nine months, including plans for future browser support and posting frequency.

## Source excerpt

Chris Coyier over at CSS Tricks does a yearly post documenting stats on the blog from the past 12 months, and it inspired me to do the same, as much as anything to have an easy way to compare year on year how the blog has done. Obviously this post wont quite be 12 months as the site has only existed for 9 months, having started in early April. So, I set the Analytics to show me from April 8th (Day One) through to December 31st, and here are the results. Visitors The site had 104,280 unique visitors, with 246,878 pageviews. Of the visits, 63% were new visitors, with 37% returning visitors. Browsers I was delighted to see that the most popular browser was Google Chrome, accounting for over 60% of the visits. Mozilla Firefox was second, with 19% of visits, then Apple Safari with 9% was third. Internet Explorer (that's all IEs combined) is just 2.17%, which accounts for roughly 3,500 visits. If you break IE down, 52.55% of IE hits were from IE9, with 33% of hits coming from IE8. IE10 was responsible for 6.6% of IE hits, and IE7 responsible for 5.5%, about 200 hits. IE6 had just 1.12%, which works out as just 40 visits. I guess with this blog being very much developer focused, there was always going to be a bias towards "modern" browsers. When I redesign the site next - whenever that might be - I will continue to support IE8+ but not look below that. Operating Systems No surprise that Windows is the top OS used, with 42% of visits. However, I was surprised to see that Mac was 34% and Linux 12%, meaning between them the Unix OS's outnumber Windows. Again, this is perhaps down to the audience of the blog. iOS had 3.74% of views, Android 2.73%. Of the Windows hits, 79% were from Windows 7, with 14% from XP and 3% from Vista. Just 0.52% came from Windows 8. On the Mac front, 58% were from 10.7 (Lion), 21% from 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 18.6% from 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Blog Stats Lets leave the Analytics behind and move on to post statistics. I wrote a total of 44 blog posts in