OneStat.com ( http://www.onestat.com ) today reported that Mozilla’s browsers have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85.45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April.
“The global usage share of Mozilla’s browsers is still growing and it seems that Netscape users and some Internet Explorer users are switching to the Firefox version. It also looks like that browser users of Internet Explorer for Apple’s Mac are switching to Safari because the global usage share is still growing. It is also interesting to see that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has less global usage share in the USA as in the UK. Mozilla’s browsers are more popular in USA and Canada as in the UK” said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com, in a statement.
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE – 85.45 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 11.51 %
3. Apple Safari – 1.75 %
4. Opera – 0.77 %
5. Netscape – 0.26 %
The most popular browsers in the USA are:
1. Microsoft IE – 80.73 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 14.07 %
3. Apple Safari – 3.55 %
4. Opera – 0.77 %
5. Netscape – 0.76 %
The most popular browsers in Canada are:
1. Microsoft IE – 78.52 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 16.98 %
3. Apple Safari – 2.05 %
4. Opera – 1.67 %
5. Netscape – 0.68 %
The most popular browsers in the UK are:
1. Microsoft IE – 93.37 %
2. Mozilla Firefox – 4.94 %
3. Apple Safari – 0.99 %
4. Opera – 0.39 %
5. Netscape – 0.23 %
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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Says alot about those Brit’s!!!!
But the UK is a very good market for Apple.
Why don’t they use Safari?
John
AOL’s use of an embedded Internet Explorer as its default browser, gives IE an artifical boost in share. When AOL completes its transition HTML (accessable from any browser), its 20 million users (or so) will no longer be locked into IE. What happens to IE’s share when that happens?
can you provide some proof that the UK is a good market for apple? I haven’t seen numbers shoring that to be the case, even though I have met a lot of brits on various mac sites. that has always confused me.
C’mon Brits, get with the program!
could you explain that AOL HTML thing again. How will the AOL web browser work when they change?
gotta love dem cunuks!
Oi! slow your roll… Mozilla Firefox is a FREE download… Safari isn’t and its only available for mac plus bloody windozzzz is everywhere, do that math.
Apple treats us Brit’s like second class citizens
I use Firefox on my work and home PCs as well as my new Mac. (switcher here)
I don’t know if the percentages are an acurate reflection on the percentage of Macs out there.
(p.s. Canadian here)
and those “knuckle-dragging” Americans just don’t appreciate the M$ browser.
Kate
P.S. For the sake of simplistic Euros, that was S-A-R-C-A-S-M.
Oi! So why are you still at 93% IE?
Euros are late adopters.
Brits still drive on the wrong side of the road!
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I think those UK numbers are a result of mixing high-tech with pub culture. They describe what happens when you swap tech advice over a few pints–you wake up with a headache and Microsoft.
I’m neither ashamed nor proud to be British.
I moved to Berlin thirty years ago ….
(The coffee was undrinkable in the UK in the 70’s and to top it all Thatcher had just come to power)
…. and became a European.
It takes time, but I’ve shed the last remnants of the petty patriotism which I was (and so many Brits are) inflicted with.
Still …. thoughts of all those over-patriotic Brits drinking their instant coffee and tea-bag tee
(In the fifties and sixties Brits still drank good tea – made with loose leaves)
AND, as I now learn, ALSO surfing with I.E.
makes me just squirm with shame and revulsion.
PS … Ok, I know there are the exceptions … those with Macs and good coffee machines and proper teapots … and, who knows, they might even be on the increase.
Get SAFARI to Windows… it’ll see greater growth and some more Apple branding.
I recall reading that some websites that would work fine with Safari limit access to M$ Explorer clients and that some people used a hack to make Safari appear to be IE. If so, wouldn’t the statistics be skewed towards IE by at least a small amount?
Just a thought.
interesting… the crazy canucks are more open to new ideas and dropping traditional favorites.
hope for them yet.
“Get SAFARI to Windows… it’ll see greater growth and some more Apple branding.”
I think thats a great idea actually, however I’d like to see Apple get it working well on the Mac first.
But the UK is a very good market for Apple.
Why don’t they use Safari?
Perhaps they do, but they set the browser identifier option to IE, like many of us Safari users do in order to get past IE only coding. Does IE havbe the ability to identify itself as Mozilla or Safari? Didn’t think so. This might have skewed the numbers a bit.
Get SAFARI to Windows… it’ll see greater growth and some more Apple branding
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eh? The only reason someone would use Safari OVER Firefox IS Apple Branding.. useless
In related news, Apple’s Safari is the first publicly released, non-beta, non-preview browser to pass the Acid2 Test.
Way to go guys!
http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_10.html#a000583
You guys in the US don’t want to know how backward the average Brit is at this game. They look blankly at you if you mention Apple Mac – but perk up if you talk about football…
Hey Charko – good decision moving from Britain to Germany because of Margaret Thatcher! …looks like you have your own Thatcher in Germany now – and boy does it need the Thatcher treatment! Where are you moving to next? ( I’ll avoid investing there).
only lazy mac users still use the default Safari… just like lazy windows users still use ie.
firefox rocks.
This means that 85.45% of all computer users are fucktards. Seriously– how many times do you have to be screwed up the ass before you stop bending over? Is everyone out there just kidding about spyware and viruses? It boggles the mind.