OneStat.com (http://www.onestat.com) today reported that Mozilla’s browsers have a total global usage share of 8.45 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased more than 1 percent since Novermber 2004. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 87.28 percent which is 1.62 percent less as at the end of November 2004.
“It seems that global usage share of Mozilla’s Firefox is still increasing and the total global usage share of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still decreasing. It looks like that browser users of Internet Explorer 5 are switching to Mozilla Firefox instead of upgrading to Internet Explorer 6.0” said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com in the press release.
The global usage share of Apple’s Safari has increased with 0.3 percent from 0.91 percent to 1.21 percent since November 2004.
The most popular browsers on the Web are:
1. Microsoft IE – 87.28 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 8.45 %
3. Apple Safari – 1.21 %
4. Netscape – 1.11 %
5. Opera – 1.09 %
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.
More info here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lose share; Firefox, Safari, others show gains – January 20, 2005
Apple’s Safari increases share of global browser market to 0.91 percent – November 23, 2004
Turn Apple’s Safari browser into PDF viewer with free ‘PDF Browser Plugin 2’ – July 09, 2004
Apple Safari browser for Windows already exists with millions of users – June 05, 2004
Apple Safari browser shows increase in global usage share – May 29, 2004
Apple’s Safari browser use more than doubled since February – July 31, 2003
Web statistics firm says Apple Safari browser shows ‘fast adoption rate’– February 03, 2003
Very encouraging . . . but a long, long way to go still.
Free the Internet Realm of Substandard Technology Post-haste, Or Suffer Terribly.
Magic word: staff. As in “the team of monkeys who worked on this post for six months. “
Attention all Safari Debug menu users:
Stop spoofing your browser as IE or Mozilla so you will be properly counted as Safari and we’ll have a more accurate market share representation. The more people web developers think are using Safari, the fewer web sites we’ll have problems with.
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Magic word: how. “I’m not sure how much the market share numbers are affected by people setting Safari to spoof another browser.”
Those initials don’t spell “second post” !
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Note how close the Safari market share is to the Mac market share. Isn’t 1.21% well within the margin of error?
What a joke.
Looks like “accromym boy” needs to learn how to spell his own name.
If you rearrange the initials, they spell post first, as in “after first”. I think that’s what a.b. had in mind.
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They didn’t include AOL’s built-in browser. Unless the server logs it as mozilla? I haven’t checked lately (and am too lazy to do so now.) I would imagine that would place at 2nd or 3rd, if it were included as a separate entry.
Lets see, thats an increase of what, around 35%? Sweet!!!
I wish they would break out the platform stats. It is inappropriate to extrapolate that 1.21% as the percentage of Mac users. Many Mac users running Classic OS are using MSIE, Netscape or Opera – as are many OS X users.
Screw global share. What about U.S. share? All this global stuff includes crapholes like China, India, Brazil, South Africa and other developing and third world.
Okay, I might give a minor rats-arse about Western Europe, Cananda, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealandl, but really I just want to know about U.S. market share.
NoMacForYou: The Apple market share for computers is for new computers sold each year, not the number of Macs actually in circulation/being used. The latter figure is tipically quoted as 10-15%.
With Safari only showing a 1% usage there seem to be an awfull lot of Mac users out there using something else …. probably Firefox. I know I do.
p.s. MDN: Cut out the unwelcome popups again willya.
30% increase in one quarter! Whoohoo! If Apple can maintain for 8 to 10 quarters, we’d have some real numbers to brag about.
What a joke.
Like my neighbor´s dad telling me he graduated third in his high school class.
Then I found out there were only three in his class.
Frankly, I think lots of OS X users still use IE and AOL as their browser instead of Safari. Both my parents have been using OS X for a couple of years now, and it is darn near impossible for me to get them to make the change.
Remember, IE 5.x was the standard browser for OS X for a while. Those folks have no reason to change (they do, but thses are the same folks to can’t ditch AOL…).
Lots are also using Firefox. Personally I use it sometimes, but I like the spellchecking in Safari, so it gets used more.
My guess is the IE percentage would be lower and for other browsers higher if we did not have to use our work computers to browse the web – during lunch of course.
I used to be virtually all Safari (using it right now), but I find myself browsing more and more in Firefox. A lot of sites, including one of my online bank accounts and some UK Government sites, just don’t render properly in Safari, and I also find the NTLM authentication handy for when I’m working behind a Windows firewall.
I find that I never use MSIE though. It’s pants on both Windows and Mac.
I am so happy Firefox is growing, even though I use Safari. This growth will only make Safari better and better in the future. This is what competition is all about and why Office is so high priced. Win$in simply doesn’t have make anything better or lower the prices until they have to. By the time they realize they have to, then it will be too late.
They are the Titanic trying to turn and avoid the Appleburg.
That’s BS for 2 reasons:
1. It depends on the sites that are using OneStat.com and I think I’ve read it in the past that OneStat.com is skewed toward sites that are typically dominated by PC users. What’s Safari’s marketshare measured by sites such as Macsurfer and MDN?
2. Many browsers identify themselves as IE because the server is not configured properly for anything else.
Opera at 1%? You know far more Opera browsers are spoofing as IE. Opera is probably number 3 on the list.
On Mac Opera is very unstable, crashes constantly. Safari won’t work with my bank. IE is sooooo slooow. If it was not for Firefox I would trade my Mac for a PC.
NoBrainsForYou – I’d bet big bucks that the bulk of the Firefox usage is by Mac users. In addition, there are undoubtedly more than a few poor souls still plugging away on IE5, especially those still using the Classic MacOS.
Your misinformation and misinterpretation tactics are easily refuted by the members of this forum. It is a waste of effort on your part.
Yes, U 2 can help promote Firefox:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage
Doesn’t take into account browser spoofing. There’s four browsers on my dock [plus two betas] – Exploder and Firefox aren’t in it and Safari gets hardly used.
Different strokes….
“I’d bet big bucks that the bulk of the Firefox usage is by Mac users.” – KingMel
I don’t know about NoMacForYou, but I’m happy to take your “big bucks” any time. Every one of the several hundred Dells that our IT Dept puts out have Firefox set as the default browser. I know this because I created the image that the machines are ghosted from.
There are plenty of organizations that now realize that IE is just too big a security risk and have switched to Firefox. They’re virtually all Wintel users. Like it or not, that is where the bulk of the Firefox users are coming from, not Macs.
Give it a rest. Be happy as a niche community with a very good niche product. You’ll never take over the world… and why would you want to?
Listen, I just picked up a 12″ PowerBook (my 7th Mac, by the way) and I must say, the quality is absolutely outstanding. It is a beautiful, beautiful piece of machinery – almost artwork in it’s tight, refined lines and extremely close tolerances. It completely blows my TiBook out of the water. But what if Apple were suddenly the market leader? What if they were producing 20 times the numbers they are now to keep up with demand? …50 times? Would Apple be able to maintain the same extremely high quality and continue to use the same high-end parts? We’d hope so, but for some reason I doubt it.
I’m happy with 10%-15% or 3% or (as NMFY would say), 1.8% of the market as long as it’s the best segment there is. And it is.