epiac1216 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} epiac1216) wrote,@ 2008-05-02 05:38:00 |
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| Current mood: |  curious |
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| Entry tags: | web browsers |
Top Browsers Market Share - April 2008
As the rat race continues to determine which is the most beautiful of them all, it's interesting to appreciate which of the big guys is attracting more users. To obtain this market share information, I relied on Net Applications which, in my opinion, is the best valid source available.
These are the numbers showing the performance of the major Web browsers:
TOP BROWSERS MARKET SHARE - APRIL 2008
(Expressed in Percentages)
| Browsers | April | March | Percentage |
| Internet Explorer | 76.02 | 74.80 | 1.22 |
| Firefox | 16.96 | 17.83 | 0.87 |
| Safari | 05.51 | 05.82 | 0.31 |
| Opera | 00.65 | 00.69 | 0.04 |
| Netscape | 00.53 | 00.55 | 0.02 |
| Others | 00.33 | 00.31 | 0.02 |
| T O T A L: | 100.00 | 100.00 | 0 |
COMMENTS:
- Internet Explorer was the Gold Medal winner. It was a total surprise. I had no idea Microsoft IE would reverse its declining trend in such a manner. It gained 1.22 points which is absolutely outstanding. Steve Ballmer is beating the war drums again.
- Firefox was a big loser. It lost almost one point to Internet Explorer. With all the buzz about Firefox 3, I was expecting a better performance from the people of Mozilla. I guess we will have to wait another thirty days.
- Safari traveled South in April. This was another surprise. After all effort made by Apple to link Safari with iTunes and in its Update Apple Software, the only logical way was up. Nope, instead Safari lost 0.31 points in April.
- Opera didn't move an inch in April. They are focusing in the mobile and gadget domain where they are leading the pack.
- Netscape was also in quick sand. It was stagnant in April. I was expecting a widespread migration to Flock and/or Firefox after AOL pulled the plug on this legendary browser.
