OneStat.com ( http://www.onestat.com ) reports that Mozilla’s browsers have a total global usage share of 7.35 percent. The new Mozilla Firefox has a total usage share of 4.58. The total usage share of Mozilla was 2.1 percent at the end of May. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 88.9 percent which is 5 percent less as at the end of May.
“It seems that people are switching from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to Mozilla’s new Firefox browser. The total usage share of Microsoft declined 5 percent and the total usage share of Mozilla increased 5 percent,” said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com in the press release.
Microsoft’s IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft’s IE 6 global usage has increased with 11.65 percent from 69.3 percent to 80.95 percent since May 2004.
Opera’s global usage share is 1.33 percent and Apple’s Safari has a global usage of 0.91 percent. In their May 28, 2004 reports, OneStat.com reported Apple’s Safari’s global usage share had increased 0.23 percent from 0.48 to 0.71 percent since January 2004.
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE 6.0 – 80.95%
2. Microsoft IE 5.0 – 4.18%
3. Microsoft IE 5.5 – 3.66%
4. Mozilla Firefox 0.1 – 2.79%
5. Mozilla 1.x – 2.77%
6. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 – 1.79%
7. Opera 7.x – 1.29%
OneStat.com is the number one provider of real-time web site analytics in the world. Our superior technology powers more than 50,000 websites in 100 countries. With our accurate, detailed & reliable reports we will be able to answer questions about visitor behaviour, site performance and retention.
Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent for browser Y means that xx percent of the visitors of Internet users arrived at sites that are using one of OneStat.com’s services by using browser Y. All numbers mentioned in the research are averages of last week and all measurements are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.
I wonder why no one ever bothers to mention the fact that user-agent strings ae often spoofed. I use safari but almost always spoof the agent string to windows IE to get by some of the more annoyingly resrictive sites.
Woo hoo!!! Almost 1% baby! (In the voice of Lil’ Jon) YEAH!!!
What about humble Netscape. I must be the only one on the planet who still uses it.
And whats with the new fancy security at MDN, no matter how i fill in the ‘Please enter the word you see in the image below:’ box, it almost always says it dosn’t match. I’m on a Mac using Netscape.Is that the problem ?
This magic word thing dosn’t work. Some words do some don’t. It took a few goes for my above message to appear.
Meaningless because of spoofing, but Internet Exploder (a huge malware magnet) is proof that monopoly leads to stagnation.
Apple can drop Safari. FireFox is much better than Internet Explorer and Apple have what they needed from Safari in iTunes.
I like Safari and see no reason for Apple to drop it.
Huh? Eh.. no Safari has a virtual monopoly and thus MS’s IE crisis is averted…
You’re right, Firefox for the Mac is good.. but Safari kicks ass.
Okay, so I really have nothing to say other than.. Apple, the government of the Mac Country hath provided a browser paid for by your tax dollars (your mac).
Marketshare is meaningless considering Safari isn’t on Windows..
I’ve noticed that if I hide Safari and return to it after the screensaver comes on, it is VERY slow, almost on the verge of crashing.
More Web Browsers YAY!
Its every Web Developers dream.
Horse Pucky!
The Globe and Mail Technology section recently ran a poll asking which browser you used (I can’t give a link as it has been deleted).
However, they asked about:
IE
Netscape
Opera
Mozilla
Firefox
Safari.
Anybody care to guess what the percentage for Safari was?
Give up?
11%
Of course, every Safari user is on a Mac, a Mac with OS X at that. Mac users could also vote for all of the other choices. So the REAL percentage of (typically Canadian, typically a little bit geeky) Mac users on the internet is closer to something like 12%, which accords with my experience in real life.
Admittedly not a scientific poll, but you are only allowed to vote once (per email address, at least), and I am unaware of any campaign to load up the Mac numbers.
Also, the OneStat outfit tends to measure sites that would attract a higher than average percentage of Windows users.
Finally, as Meros so correctly points out, Safari often identifies as something else. On the few occasions I have looked at how I identified (I have Safari set to automatic), it has said Mozilla.
I’ll see if the Globe can resurrect the link to the poll for us.
Mike
Ummm… how do you set what Safari is set to spoof to? Can you change it to “Safari” if it’s set to something else?
Safari is the business. Along with Pithhelet (sorry MDN) and Safaricon it is perfection. Without spoofing one needs Firefox for some sites who believe the world only runs on IE. Now Windows users ought to be moving en masse to Firefox.
Any creeping slowness I had with Safari stopped after making the icon file in safari library read only.
Ever seen Apple promote Safari????
Ever seen Apple promote anything….other than U2 iPod???
Apple�s advertising program is the worst.
They stuck all their marketing money into their stores.
Ummm… how do you set what Safari is set to spoof to�
In terminal type defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
User Agents in the Debug Menu gives several options
To turn it off again type defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
safari is crap. they have sacrificed loading things correctly for loading them fast. the book mark manager is cool, but is not user friendly to use.
and camino is emulating safari now. ah well.
oh, and i use chimera. so there.
88.9% can’t load 10 or more sites at once, can’t use tabbed browsing, can’t block pop-ups without a helper program, can’t reset their history/cache with one click, and can’t get a grip on modern day life. They are riding high on the status quo “Duh” bandwagon.
What is the purpose of the magic word anyway? To prevent automated postings?
Here you go twilight moon. A link to an article on extending what you can do in safari. Safari enhancer opens up the debug menu with the spoof option.
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/310/extending_safariindex.php
thepianoguy:
“In terminal type defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
User Agents in the Debug Menu gives several options
To turn it off again type defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 0″
Yikes!! What’s wrong with them including this in a preferences panel??
Mr. Marketeer
“Ever seen Apple promote Safari????”
Yes, during the WWC I think is when it first came out, like a year and a half ago or so? They promoted it on the front page of their website and in press releases. That’s enough, Safari has seen a ton of Mac users switch to it. Apple just wanted to have an alternative to the now defunct MS IE.
Newmanstein
“88.9% can’t load 10 or more sites at once, can’t use tabbed browsing, can’t block pop-ups without a helper program, can’t reset their history/cache with one click”
Lets not forget that IE is the backdoor where *most* Windows viruses enter through. MS had the *brilliant* idea of combining their internet browser with their file browsers, inherently decreasing security, and now simply opening up a folder on many Windows systems will assault you with pop-up windows.
Basically MS doesn’t “get it” B Gates didn’t understand the internet phenominon when it started out, I don’t think MS understands it now. Nor do they understand security, music, video, or even the nature of creativity and innovation. They’re just a bunch of grown up schoolyard bullies who steal your lunch money.
While we’re on the subject of Safari, I have a friend who is stuck in IE hell, are there any good programs or utilities that can help you do stuff like move your bookmarks over, and stuff like that? (she has a lot and doesn’t want to copy n paste each one separately).
For my company’s website our Browser Usage in October 2003 was:
87.11% IE
8.82% Mozilla (inc. Netscape)
4.07% Others
By platform:
Windows 91.9588%
Mac 7.5630%
Linux 0.4403%
SunOS 0.0246%
BSD 0.0133%
Fast forward to last month (October 2004):
73.19% IE
20.52% Mozilla (inc. Netscape & Firefox)
4.15% Safari
2.14% Others
By platform:
92.6256% Windows
7.1038% Mac
0.2333% Linux
0.0317% SunOS
0.0056% BSD
0.0001% Blackberry
That represents almost 8 million hits and 200,000 unique user sessions.
Macaday said: “Any creeping slowness I had with Safari stopped after making the icon file in safari library read only.”
What do you mean by this?
twilightmoon: “I have a friend who is stuck in IE hell, are there any good programs or utilities that can help you do stuff like move your bookmarks over, and stuff like that?”
Just download firefox, start it up and you can get it to get all the bookmarks, etc. from IE over to Firefox.
by my math apple have approximately 3% market penetration and safari has .89% browser penetration surmising that around 1/3 of apple users are using safari – the other 2/3 will be interestingly split between IE and Mozilla, I am sure.