what are the top Browsers

which are most used and how they are obtained

[walker]

Hi

What do you believe are the TOP(most used browsers) 2nd 3rd.

Also are there any customised browsers that come with Internet service providers such as AOL, Tesco etc.

In my experience most Companies seem to use Internet Explorer. Does anyone agree with this?

Kind Regards

Walker

[Alternative Future]

Hi,

This one should ruffle a few feathers ;-)

I would agree with IE being the most used (hit me baby - awaits some backfire :)
The second most used hmm hard one but AOL, Netscape and Mozilla are much and such the same thing so its between them three I would think. Here is a list of browsers in order of usage I would think :)

MS Internet Explorer (Versions)
Netscape (Versions)
Unknown? (this is from my site stats)
Opera
ANT Fresco
Konqueror
LibWWW
Links
W3C HTML Validator
Nokia Browser (PDA/Phone browser)
WebTV browser
EmailSiphon

HTH,

-gs

[kyr01]

These are my stats:

MS Internet Explorer (All Versions) 97 %
Netscape (All Versions) 2.1 %
Unknown? 0.3%
Opera 0.3 %
LibWWW 0.1 %
Galeon 0 %
Konqueror 0 %
Nutscrape 0 %
Nokia Browser (PDA/Phone browser)0 %
Lotus Notes web client 0 %
WebCollage (PDA/Phone browser) 0 %
MS Pocket Internet Explorer (PDA/Phone browser) 0 %

I guess they must be similar for most sites, by the way.

[Allen]

I always test my sites in:
IE 5.5
IE 6
Mozilla
Netscape 4
Netscape (latest)
Lynx

Allen

[sem4u]

The top 3 from one site:

Internet Explorer: 92%
Netscape: 5.2%
Other Netscape Compatible: 1.8%

[txbakers]

Seems like we always get this question once a month or so.

[Tony_Perry]

The results from all my sites are:

IE = 97.7%
Netscape = 1.2%
Other = 1.1%

[universalis]

There is no real answer to this, as each site has its own audience characteristics. You will need to check the statistics for your site and go from there.

For example, I have one site where nearly 90% of visitors use IE6 on either Windows 2000 or XP, followed by IE5.5 with 8% and IE5 with 1% (and 1% for all the rest combined). On another site, I get nearly 30% of visitors using browsers other than IE.

If your site has a general (ie. not technical or computer-related), then your visitors will almost exclusively be using IE5, 5.5 or 6, with just a handful of Netscape users. Got an more specific audience? You'll need to adapt to your particular situation. For example, there are loads of universities still using Netscape 4 as their default browser, and if you run a web design site, anthing goes as far as browsers are concerned (and you'll be certain to receive complaints that your site doesn't work is some incredibly obscure browser/OS combination!).

The solution: you should always try to author your pages according to web standards, using the W3C html and css validators to make sure your pages conform. In this way, you will be able to serve not only your present audience, but you will avoid the need to re-author or tweak your code each time a new browser comes on to the market. Just because IE is dominant now doesn't mean that it will remain there forever.

AOL actually uses Internet Explorer to display pages, as do almost all the customized browsers from ISPs (the customization is limited to changing the logo and adding their name to the IE title bar).