Browser stats of developing countries

December 5, 2008 8:14 AM

I'm looking for statistics on web usage in developing countries...specifically I'd like to look at flash penetration and browser version usage. Does anybody know where I can find such numbers?

I've already seen Adobe's take, but they do not provide enough depth. I would like to examine numbers of specific countries, especially those that receive the most humanitarian aid.

posted by charmston to computers & internet (5 comments total)

If you gave me a list of countries, I could pull up this info in Google Analytics on a very high-traffic site (basically, what we did in this post but with an additional filter on countries).
posted by helios at 10:32 AM on December 5, 2008

That'd be great! A good sampling would be: Georgia, Indonesia, India, Kazakhstan, Peru, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

Also, would you mind sending me (backchannel would be fine) info on the nature of the site? I want to consider how your site's target demographic would compare to the one I am thinking about.

Thank you!
posted by charmston at 12:46 PM on December 5, 2008

Hmm, I tried to do this, but there are some problems.

1) I think you need a site with higher traffic (at least 10 million uniques per month, whereas mine has 1.5 million).

2) When I tried to create this report, the dataset was too large, so GA resorted to using sampled data. It is obvious from the report that GA is sampling 1/13th of my traffic, since there are so many figures which are a multiple of 13.

3) It seems that my site has a disproportionate number of Firefox users.

4) The stats for Georgia make no sense (I did make sure to filter specifically by country, not by text matching).

5) I think that in countries with few internet users, the users' connections are often provided by ISPs in a different country. So their traffic may be misrepresented.

But here it is anyway, in case you find it interesting:

All:

Firefox: 1,182,529 / 43.95%
IE: 1,134,388 / 42.16%
Safari: 229,597 / 8.53%
Opera: 82,358 / 3.06%
Chrome: 43,865 / 1.63%
Mozilla: 7,609 / 0.28%

India: 10,142

Firefox: 4,480
IE: 4,157
Safari: 295
Opera: 228
Chrome: 605
Mozilla:0

9.0 r124: 4,762
10.0r12: 2,932
9.0 r115: 645
9.0 r47: 322
9.0 r28: 134
9.0 r45: 94
9.0 r16: 26
8.0 r22: 26
7.0 r19: 67
6.0 r88: 26
8.0 r24: 13
6.0 r79: 269

Indonesia: 8,038

Firefox: 5,475
IE: 1,305
Safari: 282
Opera: 1,035
Chrome: 67
Mozilla: 53

9.0 r124: 3,484
10.0r12: 2,408
9.0 r115: 1,035
9.0 r47: 174
9.0 r28: 121
9.0 r45: 174
9.0 r16: 26
8.0 r22: 53
7.0 r19: 13
6.0 r88: 13
8.0 r24: 26
6.0 r79: 201

Georgia: 792

Firefox: 107
IE: 2,327
Safari: 0
Opera: 269
Chrome: 107

9.0 r124: 215
10.0r12: 242
9.0r115: 2,273
9.0r45: 13

Peru: 7,801

Firefox: 1,453
IE: 5,475
Safari: 94
Opera: 26
Chrome: 53
Mozilla: 26

9.0 r124: 2,825
10.0r12: 1,964
9.0r115: 349
9.0r47: 295
9.0r28: 201
9.0r45: 1,278
9.0r16: 40
8.0r22: 26
7.0r19: 26
6.0r19: 26
10.0r1: 26

Tanzania: 41

Firefox: 0
IE: 26
Opera: 0
Chrome: 0
Mozilla:0

9.0 r115: 26

Kazakhstan: 382

Firefox: 80
IE: 94
Safari: 0
Opera: 188
Chrome: 0

9.0 r124: 80
10.0r12: 94
9.0r115: 26
9.0r47: 13
9.0r45: 13
9.0 r16 : 121
6.0 r79 : 13

Zimbabwe: 27

Firefox: 0
IE: 13
Safari: 0
Opera: 13
Chrome: 0

9.0r115: 13
6.0 r79: 13
posted by helios at 3:09 PM on December 6, 2008

Internet World Stats.
posted by signal at 5:50 PM on December 6, 2008

Excellent, thank you for the help helios!
posted by charmston at 8:24 AM on December 9, 2008