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You may remember my post from a few days ago about making custom maps using TileMill. Purely for entertainment value, I took a look at my analytics logs from the day the post was a hit on both Hacker News and Reddit, to see how they and their users differ.

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Can you provide any details of browser usage between the 2 sites? My guess is HN has more Firefox (as it's open source and hacker-friendly) and proggit has more mobile.

Sure. Ugly Google Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvcaBxBg441ZdFp...

Reddit actually has more Firefox. And HN has more IE. I guess more people are living in corporate hell than we like to think.

Thanks. As a web developer working on sites that see IE usage averaging around 60%, I can't imagine how much more rewarding it is seeing IE at just 2%.

Chrome's dominance over Firefox (~65% vs ~30%) surprised me a little. I figured they would have a more equal standing.

GetClicky makes this data /bitch/ to extract. I'm afraid I can only give aggregate from two stories in September, both of which hit both frontpages.

Chrome: 45.5% Firefox: 30% Mobile: 15% Safari: 5% IE: 2.8% Opera: 2%

... and one visitor allegedly on a PS3.

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