July 6, 2009 at 13:39IE Loses 11% of US Market in Four Months
Apparently, we are witnessing a new browser war. In the ten years since Internet Explorer buried its rival Netscape, browser competition has never been as intense as it is now. Last week a new version of Firefox 3.5 was released, which has already been downloaded 14 million times. A little earlier in June, a new version of Safari appeared, and in March, Internet Explorer 8 and a faster version of Chrome were released. StatCounter graphs show that over these four months (from March to July 2009), the situation on the browser market began to change dramatically.
From March to July 2009, IE8's share rose from zero to 15.41%, but other versions of IE fell catastrophically: IE7 fell from 49.11% to 30.68%, and IE6 fell from 14.37% to 8.7% . As a result, the total share of all versions of Internet Explorer decreased from 65.8% to 54.8%, that is, exactly 11 percentage points. The reason for this drop can be found on the chart, if you look at it carefully and see a dotted line - this is the column “others”, which includes Firefox 3.5.
The trend is obvious for the American market. Unfortunately, the global statistics are not so clear: there, the share of IE7 falls more slowly, and IE8 grows faster, so that the combined share of all versions of IE for four months fell by only a couple percent.
Other sources of fresh statistics (except StatCounter) have not yet been updated, but with a high degree of probability they will show approximately the same figures and the same trend.
As for Russia, the statistics in this country are absolutely unrepresentative by world standards. The same StatCounter claims that Opera 9.6 is the most popular browser in Russia!
via TechCrunch
From March to July 2009, IE8's share rose from zero to 15.41%, but other versions of IE fell catastrophically: IE7 fell from 49.11% to 30.68%, and IE6 fell from 14.37% to 8.7% . As a result, the total share of all versions of Internet Explorer decreased from 65.8% to 54.8%, that is, exactly 11 percentage points. The reason for this drop can be found on the chart, if you look at it carefully and see a dotted line - this is the column “others”, which includes Firefox 3.5.
The trend is obvious for the American market. Unfortunately, the global statistics are not so clear: there, the share of IE7 falls more slowly, and IE8 grows faster, so that the combined share of all versions of IE for four months fell by only a couple percent.
Other sources of fresh statistics (except StatCounter) have not yet been updated, but with a high degree of probability they will show approximately the same figures and the same trend.
As for Russia, the statistics in this country are absolutely unrepresentative by world standards. The same StatCounter claims that Opera 9.6 is the most popular browser in Russia!
via TechCrunch