Web Statistics & Trends

Everyone uses a different browser these days. The most popular options are Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, which make up close to 98% of the internet market share of browsers, with IE dominating the market.

When building a website it’s important for all designers to make sure their website is usable across all major media, whether its a popular browsers, mobile devices, or any other web browsing devices. However hours of valuable time is wasted debugging IE6, it’s complete lack of web standards support is a royal pain in the arse.

Statistics below were taken from W3Schools. Another useful resource is the Wiki

2010 IE8 IE7 IE6 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera
April 16.2% 9.3% 7.9% 46.4% 13.6% 3.7% 2.2%
March 15.3% 10.7% 8.9% 46.2% 12.3% 3.7% 2.2%
February 14.7% 11.0% 9.6% 46.5% 11.6% 3.8% 2.1%
January 14.3% 11.7% 10.2% 46.3% 10.8% 3.7% 2.2%
               

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