Comments on: What is Firefox’s Market Share?

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:46:08 +0000

Thanks for the list guys – this is definitely helpful. Recently we had an issue on a website that only effected FF3 on Mac. Any pointers on where browser / platform stats can be gleaned from? Basically, trying to determine kind of percentages that combination has? Additionally, given both use the Gecko rendering engine wondering whether there should be any real difference on the different OSes anyway (theoretically)?

By: kkovash

kkovash — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:38:30 +0000

Tomer — Net Applications shows Firefox market share in Israel as growing from 16% to 18% over the past six months.

By: Tree

Tree — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:24:21 +0000

Your figures definitly help me to better understand the browser market in both US and Europe. I suggest you can get further figures in the africa, middle east, and asia regions. =)

By: Vanger

Vanger — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:08:59 +0000

If you’re looking for a market share history:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Vanger/Marktanteil_der_Webbrowser/Tabellen_und_Diagramme

Yep, it’s German but you propably will understand numbers

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:57:14 +0000

AT Internet Institute’s figures are interesting. It’s Net Application’s figures that one usually sees.

Do Net Applications aggregate data from only U.S. sites? It’s not clear … but I guess not, since you say: “you can also drill into their data by region/country”.

Safari is much higher for Net Applications. That wouldn’t be surprising if those figures were U.S. only – the U.S. is the home market for Apple and, AFAIK, their OS share is far higher there.

Conversely, Opera is staggeringly high for AT Internet Institute – if you’ve been used to looking at Net Application’s figures. Perhaps some European users see it as a local product and use it for that reason?

Here’s an interesting figure: Firefox + Safari + Opera + Chrome. That’s the “alternative browser” figure or the “standards-compliant browser” figure. Either name would do.

For Net Applications the figure is 31.65%. For AT Internet Institute the figure is 41.1%. That’s roughly a 9.5% difference.

By: Augusto Radtke

Augusto Radtke — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:04:48 +0000

What about South American, mainly Brazil? Does anyone have a hint?

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:21:34 +0000

Yes, I think you’re roughly right Asa, and no, that isn’t bad!

I wonder why the difference is so big between the US and Europe?

By: Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:11:57 +0000

So I’m taking from this (in really rough estimates) that we’re probably around 35% of the Web usage in Europe and probably about 25% of the Web usage globally. Not bad

By: Tomer Cohen

Tomer Cohen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:48:21 +0000

I am looking for data which is relevant to Israel. Beside statcounter which I am already tracking, do you know from where I can get some stats? According to statcounter we got about four more percents during the last 8 months.