Net Applications’ Web Browser stats for December 2008 show Apple’s Safari hit a new all-time high with 7.93% 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’ December 2008 Web Browser Stats:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 68.15% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 21.34% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 7.93% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
– iPhone: 0.44%
– iPod: 0.08%
Google Chrome: 1.04%
Opera: 0.71%
Netscape: 0.57%
Mozilla: 0.08%
Opera Mini: 0.07%
Playstation: 0.04%
ACCESS NetFront: 0.02%
Blazer: 0.01%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.01%
BlackBerry: 0.00%
Net Applications’ Browser Market Share for December 2008:
Net Applications’ Browser Market Share Trend for Apple Safari for October 2006 to September 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.
WebKit browser engine is now at 8.97% when you count in Chrome!
Blackberry 0.00%???
Actually webkit is at 9.49%. When you count iPhone and iPod touch.
Don’t forget to factor in that, with many Explorer using corporates taking a holiday break over Christmas, then home use is bound to show an increase in market share for the other browsers.
OS X: 7.93%
iPhone: 0.44%
iPod: 0.08%
Safari: 8.45% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
Google Chrome: 1.04%
WebKit: 9.49%
As a web developer, I love to see the downward spiral of Internet Explorer. Give IE another 2 years and it will probably end up as a 1/3 of Internet visitors, that is if M$ doesn’t drop the ball.
Microsoft’s development schedule is just too slow for the fast-paced web—they really need to just give it up and incorporate Opera or something. Opera seems like a pretty good match as Microsoft would never adopt webkit, and a firefox-powered Explorer is just wrong on so many levels, the first of which the cultures are different.
So, in 2 and a half years, Gecko and WebKit based browsers have gone from 14% to 30%, and the whole time the rate of switching has been accelerating. It’ll be interesting to see when the Gecko and WebKit browser users reach 50%. Will it be in as little as 12 months? I don’t think we’ve reached the tipping point yet, for MS, but it certainly feels very, very near.
My calc of 8.87% was based upon the assumption that MDN had tallied iPhone/iPod into their original Apple Safari total. Remember WebKit is not Safari…
Now if my assumption was wrong even better! It would be nice if MDN (Net Applications?) would do the leg work and show the WebKit based browser tally as well as the Safari specific tally
Blackberry at a too-low-to-register even one-hundredth of one percent just shows that, while there may be a lot them out there in the field, almost no one is using it for Internet access. Conversely, there may be a lot fewer iPhones out there right now, but almost everyone who has one uses it for Internet access.
Same with Microsoft Windows Mobile.