Apple Safari browser shows increase in global usage share

[Nomad559]

Apple Safari browser shows increase in global usage share

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2787_0_1_0

OneStat.com today reported "that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 93.9 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market. Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 1.2 percent from 68.1 percent to 69.3 percent since July 2003. Mozilla's global usage share is 2.1 percent and Opera 7 has a global usage of 1.02 percent."

"The global usage share of Apple's Safari browser has increased with 0.23 percent from 0.48 to 0.71 percent since January 2004."

According to OneStat's methodology, "A global usage share of xx percent for browser Y means that xx percent of the visitors of Internet users arrived at sites that are using one of OneStat.com's services by using browser Y. All numbers mentioned in the research are averages of last week and all measurements are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day."

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer global usage share is 93.9 percent according to OneStat.com

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OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 93.9 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market.

Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 1.2 percent from 68.1 percent to 69.3 percent since July 2003. Mozilla's global usage share is 2.1 percent and Opera 7 has a global usage of 1.02 percent.

The global usage share of Apple's Safari browser has increased with 0.23 percent from 0.48 to 0.71 percent since January 2004.

The most popular browsers on the web are:

1. Microsoft IE 6.0 69.3%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 12.9%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 10.8%
4. Mozilla 2.1%
5. Opera 7.0 1.02%
6. Microsoft IE 4.0 0.6%
7. Safari 0.71%

[Ready4Change]

1. Increased, but still a tiny share of the total.

And I'm typing this in Safari. I like Safari, but I'm a realist about it's place in the market.

I still keep IE on my iBook because I still run into web pages that don't load right without it. I'm highly aggravated that people create pages that require a specific browser, as that goes against what I think the internet should be. However, fixing that requires that millions of barely computer literate Microsoft lemmings wake up, and I don't expect that'lll happen anytime soon.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. For the most part

Safari is faster than IE in Apple's OS X.

But I, too, have to keep IE for those websites (like one of my banks) that work only with that specific browser.