IE Market Share Drops to 67.55 pct

[engine]

IE Market Share Drops to 67.55 pct [news.cnet.com]

Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year, according to figures from Web metrics company Net Applications, released Monday. Mozilla's Firefox browser, meanwhile, has gained market share in the same time frame, climbing over three percentage points to 21.53 percent.

Apple's Safari browser now stands at 8.29 percent, up from 7.13 percent in November, when IE dipped. Safari has gained share more quickly than Firefox in that period: Mozilla's browser accounted for 20.78 percent of browser use three months ago, and now has 21.53 percent.

Google's Chrome browser, launched in September 2008, now has 1.12 percent of the market, having overtaken Opera in November. Opera's share of the market now stands at 0.7 percent.

[bill]

Where is that Safari growth coming from? iPhones?

[tedster]

The Apple OS itself is showing continued growth - that has got to be at least part of the picture.

Apple online market share surpasses 10%

Microsoft’s operating system continued its downward trend in January, according to recent figures from Net Applications, with about 88.26 percent of all web traffic coming from Windows users compared to 91.5 percent a year ago... Apple market share was up 2.3 percentage points compared to last year, showing an annual growth rate of 31.7 percent.

[techspot.com...]

[bill]

That makes sense.
I've still got Safari relegated to a virtual PC [webmasterworld.com] after that last scare. It would sound odd to me if there were any significant Safari growth on PCs.

[poppyrich]

I don't trust these numbers. What's their methodology? There isn't a browser market share report online that shouldn't be taken with a grain of salt.
For example, my understanding is that the Asian market is overwhelmingly IE - is that being measured and measured accurately? I have my doubts.

[topr8]

well a much higher percentage of my users are IE, although of course a lot of bots identify themselves as IE and i'm sure some slip through, which contaminates the stats somewhat.

as for safari - aren't apple trying to get users to install it when they update iTunes on their pc ... i guess some people will then use it.