Who is gaining ground and who is losing in web browsers war?
The recent stats from Net Applications show that there are alot of changes happening to the way people are using the internet. If we go back in time last year 2008 we’ll notice that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with all its different versions was dominating the browsers market with a share of almost 75%.
Web browsers market shares in 2008
While IE was gaining three quarters of the market we could easily notice Mozilla’s Firefox holding about 19%
Net Applications tries to be very specific about the sources they use to generate this state-of-the-art reports as stated on their website.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month.
Web browsers market shares until September 2009
This year, 2009 and even before it ends, at the time of writing this report near the end of September we can easily notice 3 rising stars, Apple’s Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome while Internet Explorer even with the launch of it’s 8th version; IE8 has lost its ground by approximately 7% down to 68%. Unless the makers of Internet Explorer try to investigate the reasons for that, the lost ground will expand even more in the future giving a way to the likes of Chrome.
“If at the two-year birthday we’re not at least 5 percent (market share), I will be exceptionally disappointed. And if at the three year birthday we’re not at 10 percent, I will be exceptionally disappointed,” Chrome Engineering Director Linus Upson said.
