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Web Browser Usage (Trend Analysis)

Browser market share and market penetration by version

The data below is trend analysis based upon the version market share for the browser(s) you selected. Please remember that we only display web browser versions that tallied at least 0.1% of the overall market share for these selected browsers:
  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Netscape
To modify the list of selected browsers, please return to the main web browser market share trend report and make your new selections in the "Report Drill-Downs" section underneath the graph/chart.
Date Range Interval Chart Type Browser Operating System Search Engine Connection
Aug '09 - Jan '10 monthly Line All Browsers All Operating Systems All Search Engines All Connections

Web Browser Usage Trend

Report Drill-Downs

You may click any of the Browser results below to drill down to a more detailed report for that individual Browser.
You can also check "Explore" to view multiple Browsers at a time.
Explore Browser Total Avg Aug '09 Sep '09 Oct '09 Nov '09 Dec '09 Jan '10
Internet Explorer Version 8x 28.13% 23.00% 24.46% 26.52% 28.82% 30.14% 33.07%
Internet Explorer Version 7x 25.84% 29.54% 27.93% 27.61% 25.83% 23.69% 22.37%
Firefox Version 3x 19.94% 20.31% 20.22% 19.50% 19.52% 20.38% 19.79%
Internet Explorer Version 6x 13.62% 16.25% 15.24% 14.54% 13.35% 12.57% 11.11%
Safari Version 4x 7.10% 4.97% 6.70% 6.76% 7.46% 7.83% 8.20%
Chrome Version 3x 2.23% 0.10% 1.01% 2.47% 2.69% 3.15% 3.19%
Safari Version 3x 1.23% 2.24% 1.68% 1.27% 1.04% 0.86% 0.70%
Firefox Version 2x 0.72% 1.01% 0.90% 0.80% 0.67% 0.58% 0.50%
Chrome Version 2x 0.51% 2.09% 1.35% 0.04% 0.03% 0.02% 0.02%
Opera Version 9x 0.28% 0.28% 0.28% 0.27% 0.28% 0.30% 0.26%
Chrome Version 4x 0.24% 0.01% 0.04% 0.05% 0.16% 0.35% 0.67%
--- Other 0.16% 0.22% 0.21% 0.18% 0.15% 0.14% 0.11%
  Report Details  

Wikipedia Definition:
The term "browser wars" refers to the competition for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is used to denote two specific periods of time: the competition between market-dominating Netscape Navigator and its eventual defeat by Microsoft Internet Explorer during the late 1990s, and the competition from 2003 onwards between the dominating Internet Explorer and several other emerging browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and, since mid-2008, Google Chrome.
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  User Comments  
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fd - probably a lot of possible reasons for the discrepancy. My company manages numerous sites and the usage trends differ greatly based upon each user audience. A site appealing to techies will typically rank higher in FireFox, Linux, etc., while sites with broader appeal typically closely resemble the stats shown on this site.

Johnny5 6/4/09 2:14PM

This doesn't reflect what I am seeing on our site at a university. Registering ~700,000 external visits (excluding internal visitors) in the month of May we saw 40% using IE 7, but only 10.5% using IE 6. Firefox was over 31% and Safari was over 13%. Quite a difference from what is reported here.

fd 6/4/09 1:04PM

@Dardoz

w3cschools stats are based on their own visitors, not globaly

Anonymous 6/2/09 8:24AM

This doesn't exactly tally up with the w3c schools stats here:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Dardoz 6/2/09 8:11AM