IE lost 11% of the US market in four months
Apparently, we are witnessing a new war of browsers. In the ten years since Internet Explorer has buried its rival Netscape, browser competition has never been as strong as it is now. Last week, a new version of Firefox 3.5 was released, which has already been downloaded 14 million times. Earlier in June, a new version of Safari appeared, and in March Internet Explorer 8 and a faster version of Chrome were released. StatCounter graphs show that during these four months (from March to July 2009), the situation in the browser market began to change dramatically.
From March to July 2009, the share of IE8 increased from zero to 15.41%, but other versions of IE fell catastrophically: IE7 dropped from 49.11% to 30.68%, and IE6 dropped from 14.37% to 8.7% . As a result, the cumulative share of all versions of Internet Explorer dropped from 65.8% right up to 54.8%, that is, exactly 11 percentage points. The reason for such a fall can be found on the chart, if you look closely at it and see the dotted line - this is the “others” column, which also includes Firefox 3.5.
The trend is evident precisely for the American market. Unfortunately, the world statistics are not so clear: there the share of IE7 falls more slowly, and IE8 grows faster, so the total share of all versions of IE for four months was reduced only by a couple of percent.
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Other sources of fresh statistics (except StatCounter) have not yet been updated, but with a high degree of probability they will show approximately the same figures and the same trend.
As for Russia, the statistics in this country are absolutely not representative by world standards. The same StatCounter claims that Opera 9.6 is the most popular browser in Russia!
via TechCrunch
From March to July 2009, the share of IE8 increased from zero to 15.41%, but other versions of IE fell catastrophically: IE7 dropped from 49.11% to 30.68%, and IE6 dropped from 14.37% to 8.7% . As a result, the cumulative share of all versions of Internet Explorer dropped from 65.8% right up to 54.8%, that is, exactly 11 percentage points. The reason for such a fall can be found on the chart, if you look closely at it and see the dotted line - this is the “others” column, which also includes Firefox 3.5.
The trend is evident precisely for the American market. Unfortunately, the world statistics are not so clear: there the share of IE7 falls more slowly, and IE8 grows faster, so the total share of all versions of IE for four months was reduced only by a couple of percent.
')
Other sources of fresh statistics (except StatCounter) have not yet been updated, but with a high degree of probability they will show approximately the same figures and the same trend.
As for Russia, the statistics in this country are absolutely not representative by world standards. The same StatCounter claims that Opera 9.6 is the most popular browser in Russia!
via TechCrunch
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63665/
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