Safari Browser Marketshare 6.65%, IE Slides, Firefox Doubles
Sunday, October 5, 2008 2:11Safari Browser Marketshare 6.65%, IE Slides, Firefox Doubles
Microsoft InternetExplorer continued its slide in September, according to Net Applications web metrics data. IE accounted for 71.5% of the browser market share in September, down from 72.2% in August. Meanwhile, Apple Safari browser climbed to all time high of 6.65%, up from 3.26% in May. In comparison to year-to-date data, IE is down 4.5 percentage points.
According to the metrics, Apple Safari is the third most popular web browser after Mozilla Firefox’s marketshare almost doubled from 10.55% in May to 19.46% in September. Safari on iPhone and iPod accounted for 0.36% of the marketshare. Google Chrome declined from the 1 percent peak of market share down to 0.78% in September.
Net Applications provides reports for operating system, search engine, and browser share on a monthly basis. The data is aggregated from 40,000 websites that are predominantly ecommerce or corporate sites. Here is a list of Net Applications’ September 2008 web browser stats:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 71.52% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 19.46% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 6.65% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
- iPhone: 0.32%
- iPod: 0.04%
Google Chrome: 0.78%
Opera: 0.69%
Netscape: 0.63%
Mozilla: 0.09%
Opera Mini: 0.05%
Playstation: 0.03%
Konqueror: 0.03%
Blazer: 0.02%
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.02%
ACCESS NetFront: 0.01%
BlackBerry: 0.00%
Source : palluxo.com
Anna says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Im quite sure of safari’s future growth!! could you please give me a comparison of Safari with IE in terms of performance?
http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com