Browser Trends

[Rubber Duck]

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=7

[Fka200]

46% IE6 ?

My stats beg to differ. I know these maybe overall statistics but someone is skewing all the stats in IE7's favor.

[GS]

That seems high to me too. I was going to post some browser stats from an ASCII site of mine, but they're totally screwed up for April.

Anyone have a general-audience ASCII site to check browser use against this?

[Rubber Duck]

I think this suggests that the US levels of adoption of IE7 mean it is approaching the level at which is starting to overhaul IE6 there.

I suspect the situation is very much more patchy in other parts of the World. These figures are, however, supposed to reflect global trends.

I don't think we can know the truth exactly, but I think the message to corporate Japan must be to get IDN Sites up and working and start branding in Japanese before somebody eats your lunch. It would seem that IE7 roll out is now underway there and the US experience is that it is all over bar the shouting in a couple of months.

[yanni]

From March: (April and May Msie climbing to 77% - IE7 @ 33.3% IE6 42.4%)

MSIE 137451 74.8 %
Msie 7.0 No 54633 29.7 %

Msie 6.0 No 80186 43.6 %

Msie 5.5 No 1197 0.6 %

Msie 5.23 No 181 0 %

Msie 5.22 No 98 0 %

Msie 5.21 No 7 0 %

Msie 5.17 No 61 0 %

Msie 5.16 No 4 0 %

Msie 5.15 No 12 0 %

Msie 5.14 No 52 0 %

Msie 5.13 No 30 0 %

Msie 5.01 No 305 0.1 %

Msie 5.00 No 3 0 %

Msie 5.0 No 317 0.1 %

Msie 4.01 No 302 0.1 %

Msie 3.02 No 61 0 %

Msie 3.0 No 2 0 %

FIREFOX 30367 16.5 %
Firefox 2.0.0.3 No 5290 2.8 %

Firefox 2.0.0.2 No 11883 6.4 %

Firefox 2.0.0.1 No 1232 0.6 %

Firefox 2.0 No 592 0.3 %

Firefox 1.5.0.9 No 403 0.2 %

Firefox 1.5.0.8 No 91 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.7 No 202 0.1 %

Firefox 1.5.0.6 No 124 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.5 No 27 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.4 No 73 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.3 No 152 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.2 No 32 0 %

Firefox 1.5.0.11 No 2281 1.2 %

Firefox 1.5.0.10 No 5871 3.1 %

Firefox 1.5.0.1 No 132 0 %

Firefox 1.5 No 95 0 %

Firefox 1.4.1 No 3 0 %

Firefox 1.0.8 No 7 0 %

Firefox 1.0.7 No 694 0.3 %

Firefox 1.0.6 No 223 0.1 %

Firefox 1.0.4 No 145 0 %

Firefox 1.0.3 No 123 0 %

Firefox 1.0.2 No 159 0 %

Firefox 1.0.1 No 64 0 %

Firefox 1.0 No 248 0.1 %

Firefox 0.9.2 No 12 0 %

Firefox 0.9.1 No 53 0 %

Firefox 0.9 No 6 0 %

Firefox 0.8 No 18 0 %

Firefox 0.10.1 No 128 0 %

Firefox 0.10 No 4 0 %

NETSCAPE 3574 1.9 %
Netscape 8.1.2 No 573 0.3 %

Netscape 8.1 No 63 0 %

Netscape 8.0.4 No 89 0 %

Netscape 8.0.3.4 No 9 0 %

Netscape 8.0.3.3 No 5 0 %

Netscape 8.0.2 No 29 0 %

Netscape 7.2 No 495 0.2 %

Netscape 7.1 No 215 0.1 %

Netscape 7.02 No 193 0.1 %

Netscape 7.01 No 38 0 %

Netscape 7.0 No 76 0 %

Netscape 6.2.3 No 23 0 %

Netscape 6.1 No 3 0 %

Netscape 5.0 No 440 0.2 %

Netscape 4.8 No 89 0 %

Netscape 4.78 No 8 0 %

Netscape 4.74 No 9 0 %

Netscape 4.7 No 6 0 %

Netscape 4.6 No 7 0 %

Netscape 4.5 No 2 0 %

Netscape 4.08 No 16 0 %

Netscape 4.07 No 36 0 %

Netscape 4.05 No 12 0 %

Netscape 4.0 No 1129 0.6 %

Netscape 3.0 No 3 0 %

Netscape 3 No 6 0 %

Others 12324 6.7 %
Safari No 4457 2.4 %

Opera No 3293 1.7 %

Unknown ? 1937 1 %

Mozilla No 955 0.5 %

UP.Browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 368 0.2 %

Nokia Browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 246 0.1 %

Motorola Browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 244 0.1 %

Konqueror No 184 0.1 %

Wget Yes 159 0 %

Sony/Ericsson Browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 107 0 %

WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser) No 90 0 %

WebTV browser No 79 0 %

Links No 60 0 %

Camino No 52 0 %

K-Meleon No 39 0 %

Firebird (Old Firefox) No 18 0 %

Curl Yes 11 0 %

Phoenix No 9 0 %

Galeon No 6 0 %

iCab No 6 0 %

LibWWW No 3 0 %

WebCopier Yes 1 0 %

[Rubber Duck]

Yanni, could you indicate what Site(s) that data is for?

[yanni]

Ascii site, mostly US traffic, soft adult. Mainly search engine and type-in traffic. (no crap).

Not sure if these stats help much.

[Rubber Duck]

I think they do actually. They concur almost exactly with the netapplications.com statistics.

It would suggest that for English Language traffic IE7 has hit about 30% and is more or less static at that level. The minimal growth from that level could be explained by system replacements rather than more uptake of Internet Explorer by Auto Updates.

Doesn't tell us too much about the Far East. We know that on average the speed of connection and specification of the kit will be higher in these new markets than in the US, but the stats themselves give little indication as to what might be happening there.

Gamma's stats on the other hand suggest that there is a big increase in IE7 uptake in Japan. Some of this could be due to Webmasters and SEO outfits using IE7 to check out compatibility of Website etc. I don't think the big IE7 surge from Auto Updates can be far away now. It remains to be seen, how much bigger the wave is in the Far East.

Originally Posted by yanni

Ascii site, mostly US traffic, soft adult. Mainly search engine and type-in traffic. (no crap).

Not sure if these stats help much.