David Morton (mortonmanor)
Updated UW Mobile Statistics Posted
I’ve posted the updated mobile usage statics from the University of Washington Wi-Fi network. We gather these stats by looking at the information that the web browser presents when accessing the UW Wi-Fi network.
This month we’ve seen increases in all mobile platforms. As you can see from the chart the right, the iPhone and iPod Touch make up around 69% of mobile (non-laptop) devices using our Wi-Fi network.
Overall mobile platforms make up nearly 9% of all Wi-Fi devices on the network with the iPhone accounting for nearly 6% of the total.
Overall Mobile Usage on the Rise
Wi-Fi usage (including laptops) was up overall for the month. We’ve seen total of nearly 5,000 new devices on the Wi-Fi network since the end of May. This represents a 6.5% increase over last month and accounts for over 75,000 unique Wi-Fi devices on the network since we began tracking usage in October 07.
Windows devices still have make up a majority and account for 64% of all Wi-Fi devices on the network. Mac OS follows strongly with a 24% share with the Apple mobile platforms next at 6%. Combining desktop and mobile platforms (and interesting but potentially pointless exercise) finds Windows/Windows Mobile (all versions including) making up 2/3s of all Wi-Fi devices and Apple (OS X, iPhone and iPod Touch) with a 30% share.
Feel free to check out more graphs at the UW mobile stats page.
David,
Do you have new data on the use of iPhone on campus? A lot of people get phones for the holidays and was wondering if the usage has gone up significantly on campus since July 2008?
Thanks.
-Anil.
Anil,
I have the data through the end of the year, but haven’t yet had the time to sort through it and create the reports. I’m also planning on updating how we count the devices like the iPhone. I’ll try to get to get the end of the year info up in the next week or so.
David