Reddit Demographics
Since this blog is so new and one of my posts was redditted (accounting for about 95% of my traffic), I actually have a great source of information about the people who read reddit – or at least about their computers.
Countries
A majority came from the United States, followed by the rest of the English speaking world. Mostly the west (India being the only in the top 10 not from the west). A total of 88 countries which really says something about reddit’s global reach.
| USA | 3,100 |
| Canada | 395 |
| UK | 388 |
| Australia | 146 |
| Germany | 115 |
| India | 95 |
| Netherlands | 84 |
| France | 83 |
| Sweden | 52 |
Languages
The one interesting thing here is that, while there were only 3,100 US visitors, 4,351 people had en-us browsers. I guess in a globalized world, the software people download is often just what the largest market uses. While there aren’t much differences between US and international English, I was surprised that more people weren’t using the international English version of their browsers.
Operating Systems
While a majority were using Windows, it was barely a majority – and Linux barely trailed the Mac.
| Windows | 55% |
| Macintosh | 24% |
| GNU/Linux | 20% |
| iPhone | 0.6% |
Browsers
Browsers showed a similar story with Firefox leading Safari leading IE. I was a little surprised by the number of Opera users. Guess I should be checking my site in Opera more often.
| Firefox | 70% |
| Safari | 13% |
| MSIE | 8% |
| Opera | 4% |
| Mozilla | 3.5% |
Screen Resolution
While it varied, no one had 800×600. In fact, only 11% of users had 1024 of below. Reddit readers sure have high-res screens.
| 1280×1024 | 25% |
| 1680×1050 | 13% |
| 1440×900 | 12% |
| 1280×800 | 12% |
| 1024×768 | 11% |
| 1920×1200 | 8% |
| 1600×1200 | 6% |
| 1400×1050 | 3% |
Java
I was a little surprised that only 7% of people had Java installed. Maybe it just locks up my computer in a way it doesn’t for other people.
Sticking Around
About 10% of users looked around after reading the article – which I think was impressive noting that the site (at the time) had no CSS styling whatsoever (just black text on a white background).
I don’t know if I’d draw any conclusions from this (possibly other than the fact that I don’t have to design for 800×600 anymore), but feel free to take it for what it’s worth.