Browser Market Share
The latest estimates for browser share are out and although they are in the ball park, they seem to be a tad high, from my experience.
The following are numbers from a consumer oriented web site, the data is from May 15 to Oct 10, 2006. With 636,319 sessions, 13,955,971 pageviews, 326.56 GB transferred and 56,707,575 hits, which are real numbers to measure browser use, at least in Canada.
| Internet Explorer | 79.19% | ||
| Firefox | 8.63% | ||
| Mozilla Compatible Agent | 4.00% | ||
| Safari | 1.99% | ||
| internal zero knowledge agent | 1.82% | ||
| Netscape | 1.27% | ||
| msnbot | 1.05% | ||
| Freedom | 0.29% | ||
| Mozilla | 0.27% | ||
| Opera | 0.22% | ||
The article Safari, Firefox Shares of Browser Market Highest of Year quotes the following numbers: Safari maintained its ongoing third place position with 3.53 percent of the browser market. Firefox, still in second place, climbed up to 12.46 percent, and Internet Explorer dipped again down to 82.10 percent, according to statistics from Market Share. As always the Mac folks seem rather optimistic, with respect to Safari.
Of course the data I'm using includes robot agents which may skew the numbers a little bit.
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