Net Applications’ Web Browser stats for June 2008 show Apple’s Safari hit a new all-time high with 6.31% share of the browsers visiting Net Applications’ network of websites worldwide. The data is aggregated from 40,000 websites that are predominantly ecommerce or corporate sites.
Net Applications’ June 2008 Web Browser Stats:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 73.01% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 19.03% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 6.31% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
Opera: 0.73%
Netscape: 0.67%
Mozilla: 0.09%
Opera Mini: 0.05%
Playstation: 0.03%
Konqueror: 0.03%
Blazer: 0.02%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.02%
WebTV: 0.01%
ACCESS NetFront: 0.01%
BlackBerry: 0.00%
Net Applications’ Browser Market Share for June 2008:
Net Applications’ Browser Market Share Trend for Apple Safari for July 2006 to June 2008:
More details can be seen via Net Applications’ here.
MacDailyNews Note: As always, the actual percentage numbers are not as important as the trends shown since all “market share” reports have unique measurement sources. Net Applications, for example measures 40,000 corporate and ecommerce websites — how many of which are restricted to WIndows and/or IE, if any, we do not know. If anything, Net Applications is providing one measure of installed base, rather than “market share.” Again, what’s important is the trend (and consistent data points). The trend clearly shows Apple’s Safari ascending.
In my opinion Safari is the best browser out there bar none.
Look at the IE trend decrease — nice!
Guess it’s about time for Paul Thurrott or Rob Enderle to fret about Safari and Mac losing Market Share.
Where’s the iPhone numbers? Are they aggregated with Macs and Windows versions of Safari?
It’s nice to see Safari gaining, but it would be a LOT more useful information if we could see what percentage of iPhones, and it would be nice to see how many Safari users are on Mac and Windows too. Oh well… It’s not like I need the numbers for a professional reason. If I did, I would just have to pay NetApplications for the report.
I’m vacillating between Safari and Firefox.
I love the Zoom abilities of F. but S. uses much less CPU.
F. is faster, too.
@FatMac, I love the Zoom abilities of F. but S. uses much less CPU.
F. is faster, too.
S is much faster on my iMac. Why should I care about CPU usage while browsing? They’re both a better option than Internet Exploder.
“I’m vacillating”
Watch your language, please. We’ll have none of that around here!
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I just switched to Firefox 3 when it came out, I like the way it works more than Safari. But I still use safari once in a while too. (I have 6 or 7 internet browsers on my mac). I rate them (top 4)
1. Firefox
2. Safari
3. Camino
4. Flock
I think that firefox and safari are about the same speed, so that doesn’t matter to me.
Two things about Safari make me crazy.
Tooltips are bothersome and useless . . . Anybody know how to turn them off?
When Safari crashes, a daily occurrence for me, all pages are gone, I have to sort through history to find them. When Firefox or Camino crash, they offer a “restore webpages from previous session” option upon restart that is very handy.
Safari is far better for me. I use Camino for a couple of sites that I use that don’t fully function in Safari, but other than that it’s great. I wouldn’t mind if Apple would open up Safari to add-ons/extensions like FireFox, but it’s not that big a deal. I use FireFox on Winblows when I have to use it. I hate Internet Explorer. MS seems to think that if you just move existing features around and make them harder to find/use then you can appear to have written “new” software. IE, Vista, Office 2007 all suffer from this malaise.
On PC (work):
Firefox 3 more then Safari 3 (FF has lower memory/CPU usage then S, and I’m using an older PC box at work)
On MBP (home):
Safari 3 more then Firefox 3 (fits better with the OS, and my MBP handles both well)
I can’t wait for Camino to release a version with the new Firefox rendering engine.
Wow. *sniff* over a forth of the internet now uses a browser that supports standards.
Long gone are the days of “Sorry, your browser is not supported. You must have Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher”
people still use webtv????
WebTV: 0.01%
Ha! If you look at the numbers, everyone went up except for MS. Even Netscape. I thought Netscape closed down?
And check out the browser versions?
What is “Safari 41”? Do you think this is Steve Jobs from decades in the future testing his new TimeMachine?
I like how nobody uses the Blackberry to surf the web
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Yeah it is comical that “Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 LinuxOS/2.4.20 Release/8.22.2006 Browser/Opera8.00 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Software/R541_G_11.52.08R” has a higher ranking than blackberry or simbian
Anyone actually know what browser is used on the backberry? It might be Opera Mini
The one thing that I hate about Safari is that there is no “tab history”. In other words, a dropdown box under the back arrow in the toolbar that lists all the sites that you opened in that tab. This is one nice feature of Firefox that I like.
@ Cubert
If you click and hold the back button it will show the history of the tab you have currently active. just have to switch the different tabs to view them.
@Mark S
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been a Firefox user for years but once I got a taste of Safari 3 (I’m a recent Mac switcher), nightly builds of Webkit, Saft & Inquisitor plugins, there was no going back.
I still enjoy Firefox 3, just not nearly as much as Safari 3 with the latest nightly builds of Webkit. I’ve become a huge fan of the Webkit engine. Firefox 3 still has it’s advantages over Safari but Webkit is still the leanest and meanest engine on the net.
Hopefully Safari 4 will add more features and better functionality on Windows to really steal a big chunk of the market share.
I was curious about some strangeness in my wife’s theatrical pod cast and asked. It didn’t seem right that well over 50% of all my visitors used Mozilla. An admin checked. Well over 50% of all my visitors identified themselves as “Mozilla”. A bit further down the log the truth came out – most were actually Safari “in drag”.
Don’t expect a lot of “new features” in Safari 4. Expect it to be leaner and cleaner and sport a few other significant improvements.
@ tz
“When Firefox or Camino crash, they offer a “restore webpages from previous session” option upon restart that is very handy.”
In Safari 3, select “Reopen All Windows From Last Session” under the History menu. Saved my bacon a few times before.
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Hey MacSheikh
Great tip! thanks! Kinda embarrassed I didn’t spot that.
Additionally, 10.5.4 update seems to have rendered the tool tips override in both FF & Camino useless. Back to Safari, it is the most responsive.
“Hopefully Safari 4 will add more features and better functionality on Windows to really steal a big chunk of the market share. “
Unless you accept that the browser wars are over and the winners are:
#1: Internet Explorer
#2: A distant #2, Firefox
#3: Anything else.