![]() Chrome users are ‘up to date.’ In other words the incidence of Chrome users running the latest version of Chrome (thanks to auto update) is extremely high, much higher than IE. ![]() A few observations.a) The above statistics hide another fact. This happened about the same time that the market share of Macs was skyrocketing.Finally, I would argue that the rise of Safari and Chrome are not mainly the result of people switching browsers, but people switching platforms and accessing the site on mobile devices, where those are the two dominant browsers.If iOS shipped with Firefox, Safari and Chrome and you chose your default browser the first time you opened a website I think you’d see a lot of decisions based on loyalty and brand recognition. Jumping ship was not a brand-based decision, it was the result of a monopoly that crumbled and resulted in an exodus to other browsers.Another external factor is that in 2003 Microsoft stopped supporting IE for Mac, and in 2005 Apple for the first time did not include IE with their operating system. While I don’t think browser loyalty is strong, I think it’s stronger than these numbers suggest on their face.IE is a terrible, slow browser, full of bugs that crashes frequently. JavaScript), will send Mozilla-specific stuff. It’s not necessarily a fraudulent operation, sometimes they do it because they are written to behave like Mozilla so they send that header so that the server, if sending back anything which may sometimes have to be browser-dependent (e.g. But sometimes other apps or clients send that same value for the header, to “pretend” to the server that they are Mozilla a.k.a. For Firefox it is something of the form “mozilla …gecko….”. has their own constant/hard-coded value which they send as the value of the User-Agent header – it identifies them as IE, Firefox, etc. (An HTTP request header is one of the fields, normally invisible to the user, that is sent to the server along with the main part of the request, which is the desired URL to be browsed – like )See here for the technical details: …Typically each different browser like IE, Firefox etc. My guess is that it refers to a specific HTTP request header (part of the HTTP protocol) sent in the request that the client (usually a browser) sends to the server. This is what the current OS market share on AVC looks like: There was a question about OS market share. I suspect our crew here is more likely to try something new and shift than the broader Internet, but even so, this is something to think about if owning a browser is part of your lockin strategy. There is apparently very low loyalty to browsers in the AVC community. And IE contnues its decline.Īll of this share shifting has happened in the relatively short timeframe of six years. Safari and Firefox usage has declined a bit. Safari had doubled again, and IE usage was in freefall.Īnd fast forward to today, we see a different story again.Ĭhrome is by far the most popular browser among AVC readers. Two years later, in May 2010, the market was shifting again.įirefox was still on top but was falling and Chrome was taking share from it. IE was still popular and Safari had doubled its share among AVC readers. ![]() In May 2008, Firefox was ascendant and over half of AVC readers used it. In just two years, the landscape had shifted rapidly. Firefox was coming on strong and Safari was tiny with about 5% of the users. ![]() IE was dominant with over 60% of the AVC audience using it in May 2006. Here's the breakout of browser market share on AVC in the month of May 2006: ![]() If the AVC blog audience is a good sample, then the answer is pretty quickly. In light of the rumors that Facebook may purchase the Opera browser, I got to thinking about how quickly browser market shares move. I guess this weekend will be google analytics weekend, given my post yesterday and today. ![]()
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