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.
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Apple’s Safari increases share of global browser market to 0.91 percent – November 23, 2004
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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
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Web statistics firm says Apple Safari browser shows ‘fast adoption rate’– February 03, 2003
