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Popularity of IE vs Firefox
I took a glance statistics generated for a site I run (eaa.org.za). I was somewhat supprised to see:
- Internet Explorer: 77.3%
- Mozilla: 12.2%
- (other): 10.5%
Just a few months ago it was about 90% IE 10% everything else.
I’m sure that if company IT departments weren’t so strict on installing new software then IE would be even less.
Of course these numbers could be skewed by a number of things (including robots reporting fake user agent strings) but change is hapenning. I can feel it.
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On my tech oriented sites, Mozilla based browsers have the lead. On my other sites, IE barely breaks the 50% mark.
There is a big shift going on and since Firefox 2 came out, the shift appears to be accelerating.
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I think what’s important here is what version of IE. If most of that is IE7, then fine (heh). The issue isn’t really the browser type (or it shouldn’t be), but rather it’s support for standards. If most of that is IE6 (and/or earlier), then yeah, that sucks.
w3schools Browser Statistics shows that IE6 now only has a 8% margin over Firefox…that’s an amazing 20% decrease of IE6 over the last year, facilitated by the arrival of IE7 for the most part.
When the stats site above shows FF’s margin over IE6, that will be a huge milestone, and one that starts putting a cap on a lot of old, tired arguments about kissing IE6 ass because it has market share. Pfffft !!
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On a website that I maintain, the browser stats (pageviews) for the first half of april show:
- Mozilla: 39% (this includes konqueror + safari, but that’s similar enough in standards support I think)
- MSIE 6: 32%
- MSIE 7: 25%
- Opera 9: 0.6%
- MSIE 5: 0.3%
Not bad for a non-tech website. The percentage of Mozilla users is growing very slowly lately. MSIE 6 users seem to be upgrading to MSIE 7 mostly.
Last edited by ruud (2007-04-15 17:14:10)
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ruud wrote:
The percentage of Mozilla users is growing very slowly lately. MSIE 6 users seem to be upgrading to MSIE 7 mostly.
Yep, that seems to be the consistent observation.
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at the NeMe site we get an average of 3-4 hundred unique visitors daily
Here are the browser results from this month:
Unknown 13%
Internet Explorer 41%
Firefox 30%
Mozilla 7%
Safari 4%
Opera 3%
Firebird <1%
Netscape <1%
Konqueror <1%
Thunderbird <1%
OmniWeb <1%
Camino <1%
Phoenix <1%
Lynx <1%
Last edited by colak (2007-04-15 18:22:31)
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It couldn’t be long before people pointed out the huge gaping difference between IE6 and IE7. One factor that will affect IE7’s spread is how people let windoze update do it’s thing (IE7 is listed under high priority updates). Those that choose fully automatic updating were probably the first to appear as using IE7. On the opposite end of the scale is those that don’t do updates at all (due to too little bandwidth, resistance to change, “what’s update mean” etc). My guess is that they’ll be around for a while still.
Indeed the real question is one of standards support as Destry pointed out. More standards compliant browsers should mean that a designer’s job should be easier (more kicking, less kissing), but I think this will simply highlight the smaller differences between browser implementations.
And IE6 hasn’t finished haunting yet anyway.
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Tinshack wrote:
Of course these numbers could be skewed by a number of things (including robots reporting fake user agent strings) but change is hapenning. I can feel it.
It’s nothing new. IE has been falling down quite fast (all things relative,n of course) since even before Firefox 1 release. Right now, it’s at 24% overall Europe for example, with an average over 40% in Finland or Slovenia to take two stronghold of FF. And that’s only for Firefox, Safari and Opera are also there (but with lower numbers, of course).
Source: Xiti (in French).
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