Goths are Geeks :-)

[mbarrick]

As I've been watching the referrers against the banners and the bid site I find the discrepancy between the browsers stats for the bid and my usual browser stats interesting.

Lately I've been seeing about a 75% MSIE, 20% Gecko, and 5% other split as normal traffic. The net.goth community, however, leans much more heavily to Gecko-based browsers and I'm seeing a split of 55% MSIE, 43% Gecko and 2% other.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

Yup... definately geeks -- this is a one day snapshot but pretty much represents the percentages I see on a monthly basis:

[sebastian6.livejournal.com]

Seems unsurprising if you've followed how well Mozilla has been doing lately. The word's spread like wildfire. People who know anything about browsers seems to be leaning toward Mozilla. Or maybe I'm just giving the mainstream too much credit. Who knows.

-s6

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Point being that the net.goth are well ahead of the curve on this. I've been watching Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, Netscape, etc.) slowly represent more and more hits over the last several months - no surprise there. I just find it amusing that isolating it down to the traffic associated with Convergence (a primarily net.goth event) the percentage of Gecko user doubles.

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

Go figure :) Here at home I'm typing this in Firefox running in OS X (Tiger no less)! At work, I'd be typing this in Firefox running on Windows XP Pro...

It's along the same lines as hackers liking OS X: http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html