Comments on: Browser Market Share?

By: John saddington

John saddington — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:35:22 +0000

I don’t think my google analytics have ever dropped below 75% IE!

By: radicke

radicke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:09:24 +0000

numbers in Germany are going up for chrome… (this is May-June 2008)
Internet Explorer 47.24%
Firefox 43.88%
Safari 3.97%
Opera 2.54%
Chrome 1.37%
Mozilla 0.47%

By: John A. Robb

John A. Robb — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:51:50 +0000

Update to stats I provided in November.
IE 1,116,466 65.28%
FF 423,975 24.79%
Safari 126,124 7.37%
Chrome 22,983 1.34%
Opera 7,383 0.43%

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:21:17 +0000

UK Travel Site

Year ago:
IE: 85%
Firefox: 8.1%
Mozilla: 3.7%
Safari: 2.16%

January:
IE: 54%
Firefox: 41%
Safari: 2.5%
Chrome: .9%

My guess is that at least part of the change is due to a) our site getting a lot more US traffic than previously and b) a younger audience, mostly from the US, (our clients are usually 35+). Older folks don’t muck, generally, as much with their PCs.

If I segment by UK-only traffic, January:
IE: 79%
Firefox: 16.7%
Safari: 3.2%
Chrome: .6%

By: Online Marketing Preston

Online Marketing Preston — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:26:59 +0000

According to figures provided by Net Applications… Firefox is slowly catching up to Internet Explorer in the overall marketshare “battle of the browsers!”…

October 2008 Marketshare
Firefox 19.97%
Internet Explorer 71.27%

November 2008 Marketshare
Firefox 20.78%
Internet Explorer 69.77%

I run a website for electronic cigarettes and have a 58:34 split in favour of I.E: a bit less than the figures above. Your stats on the other hand Matt are nearly perfectly reversed… I wonder if this is true for all tech-savvy websites…

Maybe firefox should promote their plug-ins and added functions more to attract more customers… I don’t think Ive seen a single advert promoting the differences…

By: Home Rentals

Home Rentals — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:23:34 +0000

Matt,

Your stats may reflect Firefox being number one because most webmasters (which are often visitors of your site) use Firefox due to its really helpful plug-ins. I am sure regular sites like Yahoo would have IE as a dominant browser. Our company’s home rental site reports IE used by 82% of our visitors.

At any rate, interesting point that webmasters prefer FF over IE

Happy 2009! Cheers!

By: Bo Janiga

Bo Janiga — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:07:47 +0000

In Australia Firefox has never gained as much of IE territory as in other countries. I am now looking at the stats of a large website and IE sits there at huge 87%, only 2% nudge from 89% a year ago. Chrome is still under 0.3% and, interestingly, it doesn’t seem to have increased much over the last three months. Looks like the early adopters have jumped into it, but the others are not in a hurry to adopt change.

By: dasvidaniya

dasvidaniya — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:48:09 +0000

I am not sure about mine. But good to see that firefox is catching up with IE

By: Peter Boulden

Peter Boulden — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:55:16 +0000

Matt,
First off, thanks for all the info all through the years. You truly are the voice of SEO.
On another note, I’m really surprised (and happy) to see Firefox as the leading browser. I am digging Chrome right now due to it’s home page interface buttons.

By: bohol

bohol — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:28:52 +0000

Here’s the stat for a small local tourist(beach) site.

1. Internet Explorer 55.19%
2. Firefox 39.86%
3. Safari 3.26%
4. Opera 0.72%
5. Chrome 0.60%
6. (not set) 0.36%

I’m quite surprised that Firefox is edging up. I still believe the Firefox and Chrome will still be used mostly be techies. For a few more months, IE will still be dominant for users outside the US.

Maybe it’s high time for me to use Chrome again. Honestly, I was disappointed with its first release when a number of websites I frequently visit cannot be viewed with Chrome.