Browser market, shares more evenly
Dec 20th, 2008 Posted in F/LOSS News | 1 Comment »One of the blogs I read regularly is from Matt Cutts, one of the Google Webspam people (some fluff, some stuff, and occasionally some really good tips on SEO). A recent post delineated the browser stats for his blog visitors, and I was astonished at the almost 60% Firefox share.
Went to check the stats on a non-techy (restaurant) site and, while not in the 60% range, the growth of Firefox as a browser has been very strong and shows a jump from 5% to 27% usage. Are you seeing a similar trend on sites that you webmaster?
2004
MS Internet Explorer - 83.6 %
Safari - 5.5 %
Firefox - 4.6 %
2006
MS Internet Explorer - 66.9 %
Firefox - 17.6 %
Safari - 11.4 %
2008
MS Internet Explorer - 51.3 %
Firefox - 27.2 %
Safari - 18.4 %
I’m also seeing a 10% jump in Macintosh visitors (from 16% to 25%) with a corresponding drop in Windows (from 81% to 71%) in the same time period.
It really isn’t a Windows/IE only world out there anymore.
