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Browser Market Share - May 2009

Monday, June 1st, 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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Browser Market Share - April 2009

Friday, May 1st, 2009

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

Firefox: 22.48% (+0.43%)

  • FF 3.0: 20.25% (+0.59%)

Internet Explorer: 66.10% (-0.72%)

  • IE 8.0: 4.65% (+1.58%)
  • IE 7.0: 44.51% (-2.03%)
  • IE 6.0: 17.52% (-0.84%)

Safari: 8.21% (-0.02%)

  • Safari 4.0: 0.8%
  • Safari 3.x: 6.84% (+0.66%)

Chrome: 1.42% (+0.19%)

IE continues to decline, but more importantly, IE6 continues to decline as well. The continual decline of IE6 should help to support the End of IE6 Campaign. Per my previous post, IE6 continues to decline at a rate that should make its market share low enough to no longer be considered worth the investment of supporting (this means rich media and web 4.0 here we come!) Also, the fact that Firefox has larger market share than IE6 should force ALL companies to fully support both IE and FF. Other interesting notes is that Chrome is gaining momentum and Safari hit a bit of a fallback, most likely due to Chrome.

As always, for more info, see Browser market share.

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Browser Market Share - March 2009

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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!

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Firefox Tops 20% Market Share

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

For the first time since the early days before the departure of Netscape, a competing browser to Microsoft Internet Explorer has reached and exceeded 20% market share. Firefox (www.getfirefox.com) has managed to achieve a 20.78% market share reducing Internet Explorer to 69.77% (Market Share). This is a huge achievement in the browser market share battle. Further, Internet Explorer 6 has fallen to just 21.53%. As the market share continues to fall for Internet Explorer and rise for other standards-based competing browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc), it results in a greater push to force IE to adopt newer web standards. Newer standards supported across all major vendors means better development and improved user experiences.

If you have not tried Firefox, go download it and inform all your friends! Let’s continue to push Firefox towards 25% share and beyond!

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