There are a few marketing numbers for browser share published from time to time, however individual sites can certainly vary. I thought it would be interesting to share some statistics about visitors to my sites (danwright.info, banasmoo.com, photography.danwright.info, and dan-anna.com).
As of this writing, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0 has been publicly released for a week or so (the samples that follow include pre-release versions of IE 8). Safari 3.2 was released in November 2008, and the Safari 4.0 beta (pre-release) has been out for less than a month.
From February 2008 to March 2009, browser share was as follows:
- 56% MSIE
- 24% Firefox
- 14% Safari
- 6% Others
Internet Explorer share by version:
- 64% IE 7.0
- 33% IE 6.0
- 3% IE 8.0 (including betas)
Firefox:
- 48% Firefox 2.0
- 46% Firefox 3.0
- 4% Firefox 1.5
- 3% Firefox 1.0
Safari:
- 41% Safari 3.1 (desktop)
- 16% Safari 3.2 (desktop)
- 13% Safari 3.0 (desktop)
- 12% Safari 3.1 (mobile – iPhone/iPod Touch)
- 6% Safari 3.0 (mobile)
- 6% Sarari 4.0 (desktop; beta)
- 5% Safari 2.x (or older)
Tags: browsers, statistics