These number are very different than that shown by StatCounter [1] and Wikipedia [2]. If you look at Wikipedia's comparisons, they compare data from many sources. NetApplications (the dataset used by this article) is by far the one source that differs greatly from the rest of the data.
This likely has to do with the types of audiences that visit the sites they monitor, so the data should be taken with a grain of salt.
We at NetApplications understand that our numbers are different from others who report market share. We are the only provider (as far as we know) that does weighting by country. No one has a data source that will truly represent the world accurately (percentage of traffic coming from a geographic region that is the same as the internet usage from that region), so it's an extremely important factor to appropriately report market share by continent or globally. A simple example is that China, by far, has the world's largest population and the world's largest base of internet users. While we have a vast amount of data coming in from China, we still have to factor it to more accurately represent actual internet usage. For more information about this, please read: http://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology
The article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of frustration because Firefox kept breaking the tree-style-tabs extension. I used to be a big Firefox defender before that but I gave up and moved to Chrome.
One thing I've noticed over the past year is that Chrome's automatic updates break functionality (OSX) and then Chrome needs to be restarted, but doesn't realize this and prompt the user to restart. Now whenever Chrome malfunctions I check for updates and 90% of the time an update was installed and is waiting for a restart.
[+] [-] rodion_89|13 years ago|reply
This likely has to do with the types of audiences that visit the sites they monitor, so the data should be taken with a grain of salt.
[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
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[+] [-] eckyptang|13 years ago|reply
This confirms is that browser statistics are rubbish!
[+] [-] m_for_monkey|13 years ago|reply
Is this a joke? That graph looks like four straight (xkcd-style) horizontal lines.
[+] [-] dbaupp|13 years ago|reply
The numbers quoted aren't read from the graphs, but rather the graphs and the numbers are derived from a table of data.
[+] [-] thauck|13 years ago|reply
1. I wish the author would define "market share" - is it % of users, percent of pageviews via that browser, or something else.
2. The adoption visualization really shows the difference between release strategies.
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[+] [-] hugh4life|13 years ago|reply
http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/
I switched from Firefox to Chrome out of frustration because Firefox kept breaking the tree-style-tabs extension. I used to be a big Firefox defender before that but I gave up and moved to Chrome.
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