Windows-based Computers Still Widely Used

As any regular visitor to my Website would know, I use SquareSpace as my hosting provider. One of the analytics that SquareSpace provides is what kinds of devices are being used to access your site.

I find it interesting that over the last month about three quarters of the people accessing my site are using a Desktop computer, as shown in the graphic “Top Devices by Visits”.

Even more interesting, in a way, is that only a sliver—based on this graph I estimate about three percent or less—of people are using a tablet style device running iOS or Android.

Does this mean that the iOS and Android based so-called tablets are on the way out? People are either using their smartphone (a.k.a. as a cell phone in America) or a Desktop computer.

These numbers surprised me when I checked this information in the SquareSpace analytics. For some reason I expected the percentage of people using a Desktop computer would have been the 25 percent number and that smartphones and tablets would have made up the 75 percent—rather than the other way around.

Another bit of analytics provided by SquareSpace indicates that the vast bulk, if not all, of these Desktop computers are using MS Windows as the operating system.

Of the 2,056 unique visitors to my site for the month who accessed it using a Desktop computer only 103 or five (5) percent were using a MacOS based Desktop computer (i.e. an Apple computer). A whopping 95 percent of the Desktop computers were Windows-based Desktop computer users.

Does this mean that the MacOS-based Desktop computer is also on the way out? Not that Apple would be the least bit concerned. A check using the Perplexity AI engine tells us that only about 8.6 percent of Apple’s income comes from the MacOS Desktop computer. Presumably Apple make the vast bulk of their money from the iPhone and iPad.