I came across this on Ars Technica and found it interesting, but not for what you think.
I had been under the opinion over the last year or so that IE usage was way down, especially with Google’s push of Chrome and Firefox’s constant surge.
It wasn’t that long ago when Firefox version 1.0 was but a laughable newcomer, since IE had 90 percent of the Internet users? As of April, fewer than 6 out of 10 people now use Internet Explorer.
“The browser trends that we've noted over the past several months are continuing with no sign of alteration: IE continues to slip, Firefox and Opera are fairly static, Safari is very slowly moving forward, and Chrome is pushing ahead at breakneck speeds.”
During April, only Internet Explorer and Opera failed to show positive growth.
“Between March and April, Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.70 percentage points (from 60.65 percent to 59.95 percent) and Firefox increased 0.07 percentage points (from 24.52 percent to 24.59 percent). Chrome jumped a sizeable 0.60 percentage points (from 6.13 percent to 6.73 percent), Safari gained 0.07 percentage points (from 4.65 percent to 4.72 percent), and Opera dipped 0.07 percentage points (from 2.37 percent to 2.30 percent).”
One reason I started to pay attention to this was when I went to the Apple store to buy my iPad and I noticed that our very own eSource Development didn’t show up correctly in Safari. When I got back to the office, I looked at our stats to see what percentage of users were actually using what. Here’s what we found:
Our data (tracked over a 1 week period) shows the opposite relation between IE and Firefox. 52% of our visitors use Firefox while only 30% use IE. The logging does not count connections from within our offices so these are actual external random customers hitting our website, which to me makes a pretty good representative sample.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to get our web page working under Safari!
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