Yesterday on Slashdot I came across an article that claimed “Firefox Appears Ready to Crack 20% Share Next Month”. It links to a ComputerWorld article that talks about how Firefox has been gaining web browser market share, and how it is poised to pass 20%. I have a real problem with these metrics though, as they really don’t tell the whole story. A site like Slashdot is probably already around the 50% mark, while other sites that cater to a less technical audience are probably well below the 20% mark. So which numbers are correct? Should you just take them both and average them? I don’t think there’s a right answer, but in the interest of putting fuel on the fire I thought I would share my browser usage numbers. Here’s a spiffy chart that shows browser usage for BinaryFortress.com in May 2008.
As you can see, Firefox has already surpassed Internet Explorer with Opera and Safari trailing well behind. Take the numbers with a grain of salt though, every site out there will have different percentages.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:18 am
What application did you use to graphic out your stats above?
June 11th, 2008 at 10:28 am
It’s just Excel 2007 with one of the fancy pie chart styles applied. Then I took a screenshot of the excel page and cropped the image.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
48% of others? that’s large. what can that be apart from opera?
June 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
never mind- didn’t see the colors carefully enough. I see that it’s firefox. both were blue and similar…
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
Which source you use to gather the info. The Firefox’s market share is larger that I’m aware of
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:29 am
This data was gathered using Google Analytics and it only reflects the traffic to my site, not Firefox’s market share across the entire internet.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:31 am
That green chunk is me.
*waves*
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’m a passionate Opera user, and feeling a bit depressed about that tiny green slice. I’m sure most people who come to this site must be proactive about improving the quality of their time at the computer. What’s the deal??? I’m thinking I should load up binaryfortress.com and then go on vacation, leaving a brick on my F5 key.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
LOL - sounds like a plan. If I see a sudden spike in Opera users now I know who to blame.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Your statistics are way off the the reality of the web by 15 to 20%. You should rely on stats published by Omniture or other Web traffic analysis companies.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Pierre, he wasn’t claiming those stats as net-wide, just simple sharing his own! Of course they’re different!
September 9th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It’s true, I wasn’t saying that is the average everywhere. I was just sharing my personal webstats.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:52 am
to give us a better picture, can we know how many unique IP’s this breakdown is for?