Browser usage statistics at the beginning of the year. Major trends.

Consider the popularity statistics of using Internet browsers according to statistical data from the foreign site HistLinks .

To get an idea of ​​the main trends in the growth / decline of popularity of a particular browser, let's start with the statistics for December 2007 .


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As can be seen from the diagram, 3 browsers occupy the leading position: Internet Explorer (76.04%), FireFox (16.8%), Safari (5.59%).


Netscape Navigator , despite the termination of support from publishers, is ahead of Opera browser by 0.04%. However, in general, their share is very small.

And the last places are shared by the Mozilla browser with popularity close to 0 (0.08%) and other developers' browsers (0.19%):
Opera Mini 0.04%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer 0.04%
PlayStation 0.03%
Konqueror 0.02%
Blazer 0.02%
Danger Web Browser 0.02%
WebTV 0.01%
ACCESS NetFront 0.01%
ANT Galio 0.00%
Lotus Notes 0.00%
iCab 0.00%
BlackBerry 0.00%

Let's see how the situation has changed over the past month of January 2008



The popularity of leading browsers has changed in this way:
The total weight of Internet Explorer lost 0.57% of users.
The popularity of IE6 declined sharply - the difference was more than 3%, while IE7 successfully grew 1.69%
FireFox and Safari , on the contrary, expanded their borders, respectively, by 0.18% and 0.02%.

Netscape Navigator and Opera have changed positions, apparently the lack of support for the first still became a decisive factor, but Opera continues to fall in popularity ... The new percentage was 0.62%, which is 0.02% less than in December.

We note a sharp jump in the popularity of the Mozilla browser - the number of its users increased 4 times, which amounted to 0.32%.

The rating of other browsers in the total weight decreased by 0.02%:

Opera Mini 0.03%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer 0.03%
PlayStation 0.03%
Konqueror 0.02%
Blazer 0.02%
Danger Web Browser 0.02%
WebTV 0.01%
ACCESS NetFront 0.01%
ANT Galio 0.00%
Lotus Notes 0.00%
iCab 0.00%
BlackBerry 0.00%

Well, the following conclusions can be drawn:

1. Overall IE rating which year continues its decline. Browser popularity in 2006 and 2007 decreased by 4.48%. The popularity of IE6 is also dropping compared to the growing popularity of IE7 . But the situation may change this summer, with the release of IE version 8
2. Users are increasingly using FireFox and Safari . Their share over the past 2 years has increased by 3.36% and 1.39%, respectively. Maybe the reason is their speed of implementation and support of new standards?
3. Netscape Navigator is likely to lose its position from this year due to the suspension of its support, and especially in the area of ​​future changes in the W3C. However, on January 28, the following was published on the official website :
   

   “Mozilla, Flock and AOL work together to facilitate the transition of users to Flock or Firefox. Flock and Firefox browsers are based on Netscape code.
   
   There will be an update for Netscape 9 users, during which they will be able to choose which of the two recommended browsers to use. ”
   source of translation

   
   
4. What awaits Opera ? During 2007, its popularity dropped by 0.05%, despite the fact that there were a lot of updates.

PS Unfortunately, the service HistLinks does not allow you to find out statistics for a specific country for free, therefore all data on the world as a whole.

PPS For dessert: browser stats by version :


UPD: STATISTICS OF USING BROWSERS BY RUSSIA ACCORDING TO LiveInternet.ru data for January 2008