Browser Market Share – May 2009
Using the monthly market share analysis by Net Applications, here is my monthly release of browser market share.
Firefox: 22.40% (-0.08%)
- FF 3.0: 20.43% (+0.18%)
Internet Explorer: 64.62% (-1.48%)
- IE 8.0: 6.84% (+2.19%)
- IE 7.0: 40.83% (-3.68%)
- IE 6.0: 16.94% (-0.58%)
Safari: 8.21% (0.00%)
- Safari 4.x: 1.13%
- Safari 3.x: 7.08% (+0.24%)
Chrome: 1.78% (+0.36%)
- Chrome 1.0: 1.57%
- Chrome 2.0: 0.21%
IE continues its steady decline as next generation browsers continue to gain on market share. Chrome was the heaviest advancer last month picking up 0.36% of market share. The most important aspect is that IE6 continues to lose market share. Further, IE8 continues to gain momentum over IE7. Even though IE7 is far better than IE6, it still suffers from several issues and lack of next generation web support. IE8 is much more a true standards compliant browser, so the more IE8 gains and the more IE7 and IE6 lose, the better we are as web developers. Firefox did not gain as heavily as past months but still added market share nearing 23% market share.
As always, for more info, see Browser market share.
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