Nicholas Hagen

Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly relase of browser market share.

Firefox:  22.05% (+0.28%)

• FF 3.0:  19.66% (+0.55%)
• FF 2.0:  1.99% (-0.28%)

Internet Explorer:  66.82% (-0.62%)

• IE 8.0:  3.07% (+3.07%)
• IE 7.0:  46.54% (-0.78%)
• IE 6.0:  18.36% (-0.49%)

Safari:  8.23% (+0.21%)

• Safari 4.0: N/A
• Safari 3.x:  6.18% (-0.58%)

Overall, the continued decline of IE provides good signs for web developers planning for the future Web 4.0.  Firefox and Safari both continue to gain ground.  Add in Chrome (also WebKit based liked Safari) with 1.23%, WebKit is only 0.54% shy of 10% market share.  Combining WebKit and Mozilla (Firefox), the share is a little over 32%.  The point is further proven that 32% of America is easily several million and further proof to design and implement all sites for all browsers, rather than IE as many sites currenty still do.

If you actually take the market share of IE 6.0 and graph it and then graph a logarithmic estimate of it over time, it appears that somewhere around Feb 2010, IE 6.0 will cease to have a considerable market share (anything over 1%).  That is less than a year away!

For more info, see Browser market share.

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