Browser Popularity Statistics |
| 2011-03-13 |
| by Mike Barry |
| CEO Fort Collins Web Works LLC |
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Why should you care which browsers your customers are using? Your website may look different in different browsers and on different computers. There are web standards that define how a browser should display a website, but the companies that write the browser software don't always follow the rules. Sometimes browsers have "extra" features that aren't in the web standards, some browsers are slow, and some don't understand Cascading Style Sheets well. Even your customer's choice of operating systems will affect the way your website is displayed. Internet Explorer is very popular because it is automatically installed on Windows systems, but it has reliability and security problems and doesn't follow the web standards as well as other browsers. |
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Browser Statistics by Net Applications - March 2012 |
Microsoft |
Mozilla |
Google |
Apple |
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Other |
Internet Explorer |
Firefox |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
Browsers |
53.8% |
20.6% |
18.6% |
5.1% |
1.6% |
<1% |
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MSIE Browser Version Popularity by Net Applications - March 2012 |
v6 |
v7 |
v8 |
v9 |
6.9% |
4.5% |
25.4% |
34.5% |
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Browser Statistics by NetMarketShare - March 2011 |
Microsoft |
Mozilla |
Google |
Apple |
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Other |
Internet Explorer |
Firefox |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
Browsers |
55.92% |
21.8% |
11.6% |
6.6% |
3.2% |
<1% |
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MSIE Browser Version Popularity by NetMarketShare - March 2011 |
v6 |
v7 |
v8 |
v9 |
11.0% |
7.9% |
34.4% |
1.0% |
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Firefox Version Popularity by NetMarketShare - March 2011 |
v2 |
v3 |
v4 |
0.2% |
19.9% |
1.7% |
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Chrome Version Popularity by NetMarketShare - March 2011 |
v3 |
v4 |
v5 |
v6 |
v7 |
v8 |
v9 |
v10 |
v11 |
0.1% |
0.1% |
0.1% |
0.2% |
0.1% |
0.4% |
3.5% |
6.7% |
0.3% |
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Safari Version Popularity by NetMarketShare - March 2011 |
v3 |
v4 |
v5 |
on Win |
0.2% |
1.6% |
4.1% |
0.4% |
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Browser Statistics by Wikipedia - February 2011 |
Microsoft |
Mozilla |
Google |
Apple |
|
Various |
Internet Explorer |
Firefox |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
Mobile Browsers |
43.6% |
29.0% |
13.9% |
6.2% |
2.7% |
4.5% |
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Browser Statistics by w3schools January 2011
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Mozilla |
Microsoft |
Google |
Apple |
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Firefox |
Internet Explorer |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
42.8% |
26.6% |
23.8% |
4.0% |
2.5% |
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Browser Statistics by School for Champions - July 2010 |
Microsoft |
Mozilla |
Google |
Apple |
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Internet Explorer |
Firefox |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
52.7% |
30.7% |
16.7% |
3.4% |
2.3% |
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| Exact browser statistics are up to interpretation as you can see from the data collected by the three organizations in the table above, but almost everyone agrees that Internet Explorer and Firefox are the most popular browsers, which is why we test all our websites in both browsers. |
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| refs: w3schools, Wikipedia, School for Champions, NetMarketShare |
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