SurfinSafari has announced that Safari Browser use is up 75% in the last year from 1.8% of browser total to 3.19%, making Safari the Web’s third most popular browser.

I wonder what that says about Mac use in general? On this site, which obviously gets a Mac heavy readership, Safari accounts for almost 50% of total traffic. Scrounging up my old high school algebra, hmm… 67% of total traffic is from Mac users. That puts this site’s Safari traffic at just less than 75% of the total from Mac faithful.

I haven’t checked lately but those percentages seem to be in line with other Mac related blog stats I’ve seen over the last year or so. My old statistics professor would have a conniption fit over my extrapolating from a sample of one, but I have to think that my site stats are at least ballpark accurate for Mac users in general.

Firefox is the second most used browser here. Though I haven’t tried to figure out how to separate Mac and Windows Firefox or use. Even considering that web designers, or those interested in web design, probably make up a larger than average share of Firefox users, and cause my percentage of Safari traffic to be lower than typical, that still has to put general Mac use at just less than 4% of total web traffic.

So, factoring in that some of the new Safari traffic has to come from people finally making the transition from OS 9 to OS X, and hence from IE or Netscape to Safari, that still has to mean that overall Mac use is growing pretty quickly through Windows refugees. Cool.

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