Early Web Browsing Data Suggests The iPad Is For The Weekend, The iPhone Is For Work

Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the executive producer of DEMO. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City. Schonfeld is the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily... → Learn More

Monday, April 5th, 2010

The iPad comes with a big, beautiful browser which may end up being its most powerful app (when the WiFi is working). Some early data from Web analytics service Clicky suggests that by Sunday the iPad accounted for 4.62 percent of all mobile browsing, versus the iPhone, which dipped nearly two points to 46.5 percent.

Today, the iPhone’s mobile Web browsing share is back up to 48.6 percent, while the iPad’s is down to 2.6 percent. That two-point difference could very well be because people are leaving those iPads at home, and going back to their iPhones as they start the work week.

If we keep seeing this pattern, with iPad usage spiking during the weekends, then that means people aren’t really taking it with them, but rather leaving it at home. Once the 3G version comes out, this pattern will likely change.

Clicky runs Web analytics across 200,000 Websites visited by 100 million people a month, which is where these numbers come from.

Product: iPad
Website: apple.com
Company Apple

The Apple iPad, formerly referred to as the Apple Tablet, is a touch-pad tablet computer announced in January 2010, and released in April 2010. It has internet capabilities running on either WiFi or 3G, and offers an optional dock with a full size mechanical keyboard. The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. Its size and...

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Website: getclicky.com
Launch Date: November 29, 2006

Clicky Web Analytics gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Clicky has various features that helps stand it apart from the competition specifically Spy and RSS feeds that allow web site owners to get live information about their visitors.

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