Usage share of web browsers

The usage share of web browsers is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.

Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter.

The most used web browser per country in November 2020.[1]
Usage share of web browsers in November 2020 according to StatCounter.

Accuracy

Measuring browser usage in the number of requests (page hits) made by each user agent can be misleading.

Overestimation

Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input. In this case, the user's activity might be overestimated. Some examples:

  • Certain anti-virus products fake their user agent string to appear to be popular browsers. This is done to trick attack sites that might display clean content to the scanner, but not to the browser. The Register reported in June 2008 that traffic from AVG Linkscanner, using an IE6 user agent string, outstripped human link clicks by nearly 10 to 1.[2]
  • A user who revisits a site shortly after changing or upgrading browsers may be double-counted under some methods; overall numbers at the time of a new version's release may be skewed.[3]
  • Occasionally websites are written in such a way that they effectively block certain browsers. One common reason for this is that the website has been tested to work with only a limited number of browsers, and so the site owners enforce that only tested browsers are allowed to view the content, while all other browsers are sent a "failure" message, and instruction to use another browser.[4] Many of the untested browsers may still be otherwise capable of rendering the content. Sophisticated users who are aware of this may then "spoof" the user agent string in order to gain access to the site.
  • The browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera will, under some circumstances, fetch resources before they need to render them, so that the resources can be used faster if they are needed. This technique, prerendering or pre-loading, may inflate the statistics for the browsers using it because of pre-loading of resources which are not used in the end.[5]

Underestimation

It is also possible to underestimate the usage share by using the number of requests, for example:

  • Firefox 1.5 (and other Gecko-based browsers) and later versions use fast Document Object Model (DOM) caching. JavaScript is only executed on page load from net or disk cache, but not if it is loaded from DOM cache. This can affect JavaScript-based tracking of browser statistics.[6]
  • While most browsers generate additional page hits by refreshing web pages when the user navigates back through page history, some browsers (such as Opera) reuse cached content without resending requests to the server.[7][8]
  • Generally, the more faithfully a browser implements HTTP's cache specifications, the more it will be under-reported relative to browsers that implement those specifications poorly.[8]
  • Browser users may run site, cookie and JavaScript blockers which cause those users to be under-counted. For example, common AdBlock blocklists such as EasyBlock include sites such as StatCounter in their privacy lists, and NoScript blocks all JavaScript by default. The Firefox Add-ons website reports 15.0 million users of AdBlock variants and 2.2 million users of NoScript.
  • Users behind a caching proxy (e.g. Squid) may have repeat requests for certain pages served to the browser from the cache, rather than retrieving it again via the Internet.

User agent spoofing

Websites often include code to detect browser version to adjust the page design sent according to the user agent string received. This may mean that less-popular browsers are not sent complex content (even though they might be able to deal with it correctly) or, in extreme cases, refused all content.[9] Thus, various browsers have a feature to cloak or spoof their identification to force certain server-side content.

  • Default user agent strings of most browsers have pieces of strings from one or more other browsers, so that if the browser is unknown to a website, it can be identified as one of those. For example, Safari has not only "Mozilla/5.0", but also "KHTML" (from which Safari's WebKit was forked) and "Gecko" (the engine of Firefox).
  • Some Linux browsers such as GNOME Web identify themselves as Safari in order to aid compatibility.[10][11]

Differences in measurement

Net Applications, in their NetMarketShare report, uses unique visitors to measure web usage.[12] The effect is that users visiting a site ten times will only be counted once by these sources, while they are counted ten times by statistics companies that measure page hits.

Net Applications uses country-level weighting as well.[13] The goal of weighting countries based on their usage is to mitigate selection area based sampling bias. This bias is caused by the differences in the percentage of tracked hits in the sample, and the percentage of global usage tracked by third party sources. This difference is caused by the heavier levels of market usage.[14]

Statistics from the United States government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP) do not represent world-wide usage patterns. DAP uses raw data from a unified Google Analytics account.

Summary tables

The following tables summarize the usage share of all browsers for the indicated months.

Usage share of all browsers
BrowserStatCounter[15]
November 2020		NetMarketShare[16]
November 2020		Wikimedia[17]
November 2019
Chrome63.54%68.14%48.7%
Safari19.24%11.86%22.0%
Samsung Internet3.49%5.14%2.7%
Edge3.41%4.03%1.9%
Firefox3.79%2.66%4.9%
Opera2.11%1.55%1.1%
IE1.13%1.89%3.9%
UC1.35%0.51%0.3%
Others1.94%4.22%14.5%
Usage share of desktop browsers
BrowserStatCounter[18]
January 2021		NetMarketShare[19]
January 2021		W3Counter[20]
November 2019		Wikimedia[21]
August 2020
Chrome66.59%69.98%59.3%54.9%
Edge8.33%10.89%4.2%6.1%
Firefox8.10%6.65%6.1%13.3%
Safari10.38%3.41%14.6%9.4%
IE1.94%4.44%5.3%3.7%
Opera2.64%0.69%3.5%1.6%
Others2.02%3.94%7.0%11.0%
Usage share of mobile browsers
Browser StatCounter[22]
November 2020		 NetMarketShare[23]
November 2020		Wikimedia[24]
August 2020
Chrome61.35%70.46%46.7%
Safari25.68%13.98%34.1%
Samsung Internet6.59%8.16%4.5%
Opera1.91%2.12%0.3%
UC2.46%0.63%0.0%
Firefox0.50%0.31%0.7%
Others1.51%4.34%13.7%
Usage share of tablet browsers
Browser Statcounter[25]

September 2020

 NetMarketShare[26]

September 2020

Safari 46.86% 46.40%
Chrome 39.77% 44.82%
AOSP 11.42% 2.45%
Samsung Internet N/A 3.53%
Opera 0.62% 0.63%
Firefox 0.30% 0.19%
Others 1.03% 1.98%

Crossover to smartphones having majority share
See also: Usage share of operating systems § Crossover to smartphones having majority share

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for all use), in the week from 7–13 November 2016, "mobile" (meaning smartphones) alone (without tablets) overtook desktop for the first time and by the end of the year smartphones were in the majority. Since 27 October, the desktop hasn't shown a majority, even on weekdays.

Previously according to StatCounter press release, the world has turned into a desktop-minority;[27] as of October 2016, there was about 49% of desktop usage for that month. The two biggest continents, Asia and Africa, have been a mobile-majority for a while, and Australia is by now desktop-minority too.[28][29] A few countries in Europe and South America have also followed this trend of being mobile-majority.

In March 2015, for the first time in the US the number of mobile-only adult internet users exceeded the number of desktop-only internet users with 11.6% of the digital population only using mobile compared to 10.6% only using desktop; this also means the majority, 78%, use both desktop and mobile to access the internet.[30]

Older reports (2000–2019)

StatCounter (Jan 2009 to October 2019)
Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter till 2019-05. See HTML5 beginnings, Presto rendering engine deprecation and Chrome's dominance.

StatCounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using StatCounter totaling more than 15 billion hits per month.[31] No weightings are used.

Global Desktop stats from StatCounter (Top 5 browsers)
Date
 Chrome

 Firefox

 Safari

 Internet
Explorer
 Edge

 Other

 Mobile

October 2019 68.91%9.25%8.68%4.45%4.51%4.20%54.07%
September 2019 69.08%9.54%7.41%4.99%4.71%4.27%53.75%
August 2019 71.15%9.52%5.80%4.40%4.71%4.43%53.66%
July 2019 71.05%9.52%5.41%5.00%4.60%4.41%53.08%
June 2019 70.71%9.76%5.64%5.03%4.50%4.36%52.69%
May 2019 69.09%10.01%7.25%5.14%4.32%4.21%49.40%
April 2019 69.55%9.78%6.91%5.16%4.37%4.23%50.27%
March 2019 69.52%9.58%6.46%5.44%4.56%4.44%51.01%
February 2019 71.58%8.72%5.77%5.34%4.34%4.24%49.87%
January 2019 70.88%9.50%5.15%5.74%4.41%4.32%51.09%
December 2018 70.95%10.05%5.06%5.40%4.17%4.38%50.97%
November 2018 72.38%9.10%5.06%5.38%4.00%4.07%45.91%
October 2018 69.64%10.14%5.61%6.01%4.21%4.38%50.22%
September 2018 67.88%10.94%5.58%6.45%4.36%4.78%53.95%
August 2018 67.66%10.96%5.13%6.97%4.24%5.03%54.80%
July 2018 67.60%11.23%5.01%6.97%4.19%5.00%55.12%
June 2018 66.87%11.44%5.38%7.13%4.16%5.02%54.62%
May 2018 66.93%11.55%5.48%6.97%4.15%4.92%54.11%
April 2018 66.17%11.78%5.48%7.17%4.26%5.14%53.42%
March 2018 66.93%11.60%5.37%7.02%4.18%4.90%53.80%
February 2018 67.49%11.54%5.42%6.91%4.04%4.60%54.02%
January 2018 65.98%11.87%5.87%7.28%4.11%4.88%54.20%
December 2017 64.72%12.21%6.29%7.71%4.18%4.88%54.81%
November 2017 64.02%12.55%6.08%8.47%4.29%4.59%52.27%
October 2017 63.60%13.04%5.89%8.34%4.43%4.69%53.19%
September 2017 63.98%13.60%5.46%8.21%4.30%4.46%54.71%
August 2017 63.58%13.73%5.51%8.61%3.95%4.61%55.18%
July 2017 63.48%13.82%5.04%9.03%3.95%4.68%56.70%
June 2017 63.23%13.98%5.15%9.28%3.89%4.47%55.69%
May 2017 63.36%14.17%5.25%9.20%3.74%4.28%54.25%
April 2017 63.45%14.53%5.20%9.00%3.71%4.11%54.58%
March 2017 62.81%14.97%5.28%9.39%3.64%3.92%53.36%
February 2017 62.95%14.81%5.34%9.62%3.68%3.60%52.37%
January 2017 62.09%14.85%5.28%10.49%3.58%3.71%52.28%
July 2016 62.38%15.43%4.59%10.67%3.04%3.85%47.18%
Date
 Chrome

 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox

 Safari

 Opera

 Other

 Mobile

January 2016 57.75%16.00%15.95%4.60%2.03%3.68%41.04%
July 2015 55.39%18.86%17.24%4.70%1.91%1.90%39.46%
January 2015 51.72%21.16%18.70%4.94%1.67%1.81%33.24%
July 2014 48.69%22.52%19.25%4.89%1.45%2.19%29.48%
January 2014 46.60%24.65%20.39%5.09%1.32%1.96%23.77%
July 2013 45.40%26.50%21.31%4.80%1.11%1.32%17.35%
January 2013 38.08%32.25%22.47%5.12%1.22%0.86%14.13%
July 2012 33.81%32.04%23.73%7.12%1.72%1.58%11.09%
January 2012 28.40%37.45%24.78%6.62%1.95%0.79%8.49%
July 2011 22.14%42.45%27.95%5.14%1.66%0.63%7.02%
January 2011 15.68%46.00%30.68%5.09%2.00%0.55%4.30%
July 2010 9.88%52.68%30.69%4.09%1.91%0.74%2.86%
January 2010 6.04%55.25%31.64%3.76%2.00%1.31%1.56%
July 2009 3.01%60.11%30.50%3.02%2.64%0.72%1.05%
January 2009 1.38%65.41%27.03%2.57%2.92%0.70%0.67%

W3Counter (May 2007 to March 2020)

This site counts the last 15,000 page views from each of approximately 80,000 websites. This limits the influence of sites with more than 15,000 monthly visitors on the usage statistics. W3Counter is not affiliated with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Global Web Stats from W3Counter
Date Google Chrome Safari Internet Explorer & Edge Firefox Opera
March 2020 59.3%12.3%9.1%4.5%3.0%
February 2020 58.1%13.0%12.9%5.4%2.7%
January 2020 58.2%17.7%7.1%5.5%2.6%
December 2019 56.1%18.1%7.5%5.5%3.7%
November 2019 59.2%14.6%9.6%6.1%3.5%
October 2019 57.0%13.4%9.4%6.9%3.3%
September 2019 58.7%12.5%8.1%6.3%3.0%
August 2019 56.8%12.3%7.8%5.3%2.1%
July 2019 55.4%12.5%8.6%6.5%2.8%
June 2019 56.8%13.3%8.1%6.8%2.4%
May 2019 57.4%13.5%6.8%6.8%2.4%
April 2019 60.1%12.7%6.8%6.1%2.8%
March 2019 65.4%13.6%6.2%6.3%3.0%
February 2019 63.9%14.1%7.1%6.5%3.1%
January 2019 64.5%14.3%7.0%6.3%3.0%
December 2018 64.4%14.6%7.2%6.3%3.0%
November 2018 64.7%14.2%7.4%6.7%3.0%
October 2018 61.7%13.1%6.6%6.5%2.8%
September 2018 62.2%13.4%6.3%7.1%3.0%
August 2018 60.3%13.1%6.7%7.2%3.1%
July 2018 57.8%14.0%5.9%6.0%3.7%
June 2018 55.2%13.5%6.1%5.4%3.2%
May 2018 56.6%14.7%7.1%6.5%3.5%
April 2018 58.8%14.6%6.9%6.4%3.5%
March 2018 60.6%15.4%7.6%7.2%2.9%
February 2018 59.9%15.7%7.3%8.5%3.4%
January 2018 58.4%15.3%7.8%9.1%3.9%
December 2017 58.8%14.5%8.0%9.3%4.0%
November 2017 59.2%14.3%8.1%9.3%4.0%
October 2017 58.8%13.4%9.8%9.1%3.2%
September 2017 57.0%13.2%11.2%9.1%3.2%
August 2017 56.8%14.9%9.1%8.1%5.0%
July 2017 64.0%13.6%8.0%6.8%3.2%
June 2017 62.4%13.5%8.9%7.8%3.2%
May 2017 58.1%14.9%9.7%9.0%3.0%
April 2017 61.2%15.9%8.2%6.3%2.9%
March 2017 58.9%15.2%7.2%7.2%3.8%
February 2017 57.2%13.2%8.5%9.0%5.0%
January 2017 58.4%13.3%8.1%9.5%4.4%
July 2016 59.5%13.1%10.2%10.1%2.6%
January 2016 47.3%20.7%12.3%11.4%3.2%
July 2015 46.5%16.5%13.6%13.3%3.9%
January 2015 43.2%15.2%17.3%15.3%3.1%
July 2014 38.7%15.4%21.3%15.3%3.1%
January 2014 34.3%17.9%20.4%18.4%2.7%
July 2013 33.4%15.2%23.0%19.1%2.4%
January 2013 30.1%14.8%27.6%20.1%2.3%
July 2012 28.5%13.4%28.7%23.2%2.2%
January 2012 25.3%6.7%31.8%25.5%2.5%
July 2011 20.2%6.6%36.6%28.5%2.4%
January 2011 14.6%6.0%41.1%31.9%2.1%
July 2010 10.6%2.1%48.3%34.1%2.3%
January 2010 6.4%5.5%50.6%32.9%2.2%
July 2009 3.4%4.8%54.4%32.4%1.8%
January 2009 0.2%2.8%60.2%32.1%2.0%
July 2008 2.5%62.3%30.4%2.1%
January 2008 2.8%63.1%29.1%2.0%
July 2007 2.2%66.9%25.1%1.8%
May 2007 2.4%67.7%25.0%1.8%
Date Google Chrome Safari Internet Explorer Firefox Opera

Net Applications (May 2016 to November 2019)

Net Applications bases its usage share on statistics from 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors per month. The mean site has 1300 unique visitors per day.

Global usage share of desktop browsers data from: Net Applications
Period
 Chrome

 Firefox

 Internet
Explorer
 Edge

 Safari

 Sogou
Explorer
 QQ

 Opera

 Yandex

 UC

November 2019 67.15%8.15%6.81%5.97%5.29%1.78%1.66%1.28%0.81%0.40%
October 2019 67.38%8.62%6.47%6.10%4.82%1.83%1.66%1.32%0.84%0.31%
September 2019 68.33%8.68%6.30%5.93%4.26%1.59%1.45%1.42%0.98%0.34%
August 2019 68.60%8.43%7.50%6.34%3.85%1.72%1.58%1.39%0.86%0.26%
July 2019 67.22%8.34%7.44%5.80%3.40%1.70%1.52%1.43%0.88%0.34%
June 2019 66.29%8.86%7.30%6.03%3.32%1.35%1.30%1.54%0.87%0.32%
May 2019 67.90%9.46%7.70%5.36%3.30%1.47%1.33%1.52%0.95%0.39%
April 2019 65.64%10.23%8.44%5.53%3.58%1.63%1.40%1.57%0.89%0.37%
March 2019 67.88%9.27%7.34%5.20%3.69%1.50%1.33%1.65%0.97%0.44%
February 2019 66.89%9.39%8.23%4.79%3.56%1.49%1.60%1.63%0.83%0.46%
January 2019 67.29%9.92%7.94%4.61%4.00%1.24%1.31%1.60%0.80%0.44%
December 2018 67.18%9.58%8.31%4.09%3.71%1.69%1.71%1.68%0.68%0.51%
November 2018 65.57%8.96%9.64%4.22%3.74%1.73%1.68%1.56%0.67%0.55%
October 2018 66.43%9.25%9.48%4.28%3.74%1.43%1.53%1.55%0.63%0.49%
September 2018 66.28%9.62%9.94%4.08%3.59%1.23%1.20%1.61%0.59%0.60%
August 2018 65.21%9.76%10.86%4.30%3.65%1.15%1.14%1.66%0.64%0.52%
July 2018 64.67%9.68%11.15%4.21%3.49%1.49%1.55%1.58%0.46%0.60%
June 2018 62.77%10.12%12.22%4.25%3.70%1.45%1.49%1.58%0.56%0.59%
May 2018 62.85%9.92%11.82%4.26%3.71%1.47%1.55%1.67%0.58%0.75%
April 2018 61.77%10.52%12.20%4.46%3.94%1.60%1.72%1.50%0.72%0.80%
March 2018 61.77%10.52%12.20%4.46%3.94%1.49%1.38%1.45%0.65%0.66%
February 2018 61.55%11.15%11.66%4.44%4.39%1.32%1.21%1.73%0.72%0.63%
January 2018 61.41%10.85%11.84%4.67%4.18%1.64%1.20%1.60%0.62%0.71%
December 2017 60.57%11.02%12.36%4.61%4.00%1.79%1.47%1.56%0.58%0.76%
November 2017 60.61%11.42%12.04%4.21%3.85%1.84%1.53%1.51%0.77%0.78%
October 2017 59.99%11.71%12.25%4.06%3.78%1.92%1.80%1.41%0.55%0.70%
September 2017 60.67%13.26%11.80%3.71%3.54%1.70%1.28%1.38%0.55%0.66%
August 2017 61.05%12.26%12.07%3.67%3.14%1.74%1.70%1.52%0.59%0.74%
July 2017 59.65%12.59%12.96%3.78%3.22%1.72%1.64%1.58%0.61%0.82%
June 2017 60.08%12.53%12.75%3.80%3.24%1.66%1.40%1.55%0.66%0.97%
May 2017 58.92%12.90%12.91%3.97%3.38%1.81%1.32%1.56%0.91%0.78%
April 2017 55.95%13.13%14.41%3.97%3.35%1.86%1.98%1.77%1.29%0.72%
March 2017 55.81%15.50%14.61%3.63%3.26%1.69%0.96%1.93%0.38%0.78%
February 2017 59.17%14.88%11.82%3.22%3.13%1.32%0.84%1.59%0.52%0.61%
January 2017 56.65%15.56%14.93%3.32%3.43%1.33%0.85%1.41%0.36%0.52%
July 2016 55.50%15.27%14.79%2.97%4.57%1.34%0.79%1.61%0.86%0.32%
May 2016 56.20%14.79%14.89%2.31%4.67%1.05%0.60%2.95%0.50%0.31%

Wikimedia (April 2009 to March 2015)
Usage in Wikimedia during 2012.

Wikimedia traffic analysis reports are based on server logs of about 4 billion page requests per month, based on the user agent information that accompanied the requests.[32] These server logs cover requests to all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity and others.[33]

Note: Wikimedia has recently had a large percentage of unrecognised browsers, previously counted as Firefox, that are now assumed to be Internet Explorer 11 fixed in the February 2014 and later numbers. And February 2014 numbers include mobile for Internet Explorer and Firefox (not included in Android). Chrome did not include the mobile numbers at that time while Android does since there was an "Android browser" that was the default browser at that time.

Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report: All Requests
Period Chrome
 Firefox
 Internet
Explorer		 Safari Opera Android
 Mobile
Total
Desktop Mobile Total Desktop Mobile Total
March 2015 29.61%14.23%10.86%2.97%16.68%19.65%0.65%1.41%2.06%17.45%38.37%
February 2014 27.94%12.00%17.01%3.83%17.97%21.80%1.50%1.27%2.77%12.59%35.03%
January 2014 27.32%18.15%11.78%3.88%19.41%23.29%1.51%1.32%2.83%12.89%35.01%
December 2013 30.70%17.90%11.48%3.45%18.03%21.48%1.54%1.32%2.86%11.52%32.20%
November 2013 35.04%17.37%13.80%2.52%15.17%17.69%1.49%1.16%2.65%9.45%26.99%
October 2013 33.93%16.12%15.46%2.36%14.34%16.70%1.53%1.17%2.70%9.00%26.32%
August 2013 31.07%17.17%15.98%2.69%15.92%18.61%1.87%1.14%3.01%9.18%28.25%
July 2013 32.33%16.90%15.65%2.63%15.66%18.29%2.06%1.18%3.24%8.56%27.38%
June 2013 35.16%17.83%15.93%2.37%13.13%15.50%2.18%1.10%3.28%6.45%22.32%
May 2013 35.23%17.79%16.99%2.19%12.63%14.82%2.41%1.14%3.55%6.32%21.83%
April 2013 34.16%18.16%16.95%2.31%13.61%15.92%2.42%1.18%3.60%6.55%23.13%
March 2013 33.22%16.28%17.03%4.34%13.59%17.93%2.55%1.18%3.73%6.51%23.13%
February 2013 32.21%16.80%18.27%4.56%13.06%17.62%2.57%1.21%3.78%6.25%22.44%
January 2013 31.34%17.61%18.68%4.64%12.66%17.30%2.72%1.16%3.88%6.01%21.71%
July 2012 27.20%19.23%23.70%4.88%10.60%15.48%3.00%1.50%4.50%4.55%18.19%
January 2012 22.20%22.30%29.51%5.87%7.58%13.45%3.94%1.21%5.15%3.21%13.40%
July 2011 16.81%24.98%36.78%5.44%5.31%10.75%3.32%0.90%4.22%1.71%9.80%
January 2011 11.75%28.71%41.56%5.53%3.73%9.26%3.55%0.70%4.25%0.90%6.90%
Usage share data from Wikimedia visitor log analysis report
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox

 Chrome

 Safari

 Opera

 Other
Mozilla
 Mobile

December 2010 42.12%28.82%11.18%5.70%3.67%0.52%6.4%
July 2010 47.74%30.43%7.52%5.18%2.89%0.53%4.5%
January 2010 51.01%30.85%4.81%5.13%3.18%0.56%3.1%
July 2009 54.55%31.52%2.77%4.51%2.38%0.70%2.4%
April 2009 57.37%30.71%1.93%3.86%2.57%0.68%1.9%

Clicky (September 2009 to August 2013)
Global usage share data from GetClicky.com
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Chrome

 Firefox

 Safari

 Opera

 Other Mozilla

August 2013 28.76%39.48%20.86%9.55%1.04%0.31%
July 2013 28.64%39.44%21.27%9.19%1.14%0.31%
June 2013 29.08%38.92%21.22%9.28%1.17%0.32%
May 2013 29.14%38.39%21.19%9.86%1.13%0.29%
April 2013 30.57%37.12%21.36%9.48%1.22%0.27%
March 2013 31.92%35.83%21.29%9.52%1.21%0.24%
February 2013 33.10%34.57%21.40%9.51%1.21%0.20%
January 2013 35.67%32.79%20.79%9.41%1.16%0.19%
July 2012 35.77%29.87%23.61%9.18%1.43%0.13%
January 2012 38.59%25.75%24.74%9.55%1.28%0.09%
July 2011 42.06%20.25%27.35%9.07%1.20%0.07%
January 2011 46.00%15.25%28.74%8.62%1.27%0.12%
July 2010 49.26%10.53%30.88%7.89%1.26%0.18%
January 2010 50.73%6.85%32.89%7.79%1.51%0.23%
September 2009 54.58%4.25%31.96%7.44%1.34%0.43%

StatOwl.com (September 2008 to November 2012)
US usage share data from StatOwl.com
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox,
Other Mozilla
 Chrome

 Safari

 Opera

 Gecko

 Netscape
Navigator
November 2012 43.38%19.42%24.91%9.27%0.75%0.84%
October 2012 44.40%19.62%24.09%9.42%0.68%0.55%
September 2012 45.03%19.26%23.31%9.84%0.65%0.78%
August 2012 45.87%19.49%22.53%10.14%0.59%0.43%
July 2012 46.95%19.03%22.31%9.96%0.52%0.36%
June 2012 46.69%19.42%21.76%9.80%0.55%0.30%
May 2012 46.47%20.47%20.88%10.04%0.55%0.30%
April 2012 48.28%19.73%19.39%10.51%0.44%0.27%
March 2012 49.18%19.46%18.10%11.14%0.38%0.29%
February 2012 50.98%19.00%17.05%11.16%0.33%0.22%
January 2012 51.81%18.98%16.77%10.93%0.38%0.15%
December 2011 51.42%19.73%16.78%10.69%0.39%0.16%
November 2011 51.17%20.15%16.13%11.29%0.38%0.16%
October 2011 52.59%20.06%15.01%11.13%0.36%0.17%
September 2011 53.79%20.18%13.79%10.81%0.37%0.21%
August 2011 53.81%20.61%13.64%10.75%0.39%0.15%
July 2011 55.26%20.29%12.58%10.68%0.37%0.13%
June 2011 56.23%20.85%12.04%9.77%0.46%
May 2011 57.48%20.43%11.06%9.88%0.49%
April 2011 57.08%21.40%10.85%9.47%0.53%
March 2011 60.27%19.57%9.60%9.62%0.42%
February 2011 60.92%19.21%9.13%9.59%0.40%0.42%
January 2011 61.28%19.57%8.80%9.40%0.39%0.31%
December 2010 60.98%20.14%8.61%9.33%0.40%0.24%
November 2010 62.13%19.69%7.46%9.42%0.37%0.18%
October 2010 62.54%19.76%7.17%9.03%0.36%0.15%
September 2010 62.68%20.51%6.99%8.83%0.36%0.15%
August 2010 62.66%20.94%6.83%8.83%0.35%0.14%
July 2010 61.73%21.66%6.95%8.94%0.36%0.11%
June 2010 63.37%21.26%6.24%8.52%0.33%
May 2010 64.17%21.12%5.59%8.31%0.37%
April 2010 64.55%21.35%5.23%8.12%0.40%
March 2010 66.34%19.90%4.39%8.59%0.31%
February 2010 66.99%19.48%3.98%9.00%0.24%0.06%
January 2010 66.33%20.31%3.87%8.94%0.26%0.06%
December 2009 66.12%20.82%3.51%8.73%0.30%0.07%
November 2009 67.74%20.15%2.88%8.56%0.28%0.10%
October 2009 68.38%20.32%2.56%8.09%0.27%0.14%
September 2009 67.25%21.12%2.41%8.46%0.28%0.21%
August 2009 68.37%21.32%2.21%7.29%0.28%0.23%
July 2009 69.29%21.06%2.05%6.77%0.30%0.24%
June 2009 71.44%19.48%1.93%6.30%0.33%0.22%
May 2009 71.35%20.26%1.64%5.95%0.31%0.21%
April 2009 71.38%20.46%1.43%5.80%0.31%0.19%
March 2009 72.03%20.00%1.19%5.91%0.30%0.10%
February 2009 74.04%18.64%0.97%5.57%0.27%0.10%
January 2009 73.05%19.39%0.96%5.72%0.29%0.12%
December 2008 70.89%20.87%0.95%6.32%0.33%0.13%
November 2008 72.07%19.78%0.68%6.57%0.29%0.13%
October 2008 73.45%18.88%0.57%6.22%0.26%0.16%
September 2008 74.53%18.14%0.52%5.98%0.22%0.17%

92% of sites monitored by StatOwl serve predominantly United States market.[34]

AT Internet Institute (Europe, July 2007 to June 2010)

AT Internet Institute was formerly known as XiTi.

Method: Only counts visits to local sites in 23 European countries and then averages the percentages for those 23 European countries independent of population size.

Europe usage share data from AT Internet Institute
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Source
June 2010 53.8%30.6%2.4%6.8%5.7%2010-6
March 2010 57.1%29.6%2.2%5.2%5.3%2010-3
September 2009 62.0%28.4%2.2%4.3%2.8%2009–11
April 2009 63.6%0.6%28.4%2.2%3.4%1.7%2009-5
March 2009 64.6%0.6%27.8%2.2%3.3%1.4%
February 2009 65.6%0.5%27.4%2.1%3.0%1.3%
January 2009 58.1%0.6%32.5%4.1%3.0%1.5%2009-1
December 2008 58.5%0.6%32.3%4.5%2.7%1.3%
November 2008 59.5%0.6%31.1%5.1%2.5%1.1%2008-12-22
October 2008 59.2%0.6%31.1%5.4%2.4%1.1%
September 2008 60.2%0.4%31.2%4.8%2.4%1.0%2008-10-10
August 2008 59.4%0.3%33.0%4.5%2.6%
July 2008 60.4%0.3%32.2%4.5%2.4%
June 2008 60.5%0.3%31.4%5.1%2.5%
May 2008 61.7%0.4%30.7%4.7%2.4%
April 2008 64.5%0.5%28.9%3.6%2.4%
March 2008 65.0%0.5%28.8%3.3%2.3%2008-04-30
February 2008 65.6%0.5%28.5%3.2%2.2%
January 2008 66.1%0.5%28.0%3.2%2.1%
December 2007 66.1%0.5%28.0%3.3%2.0%
November 2007 66.9%0.5%27.3%3.2%1.9%
October 2007 67.5%0.4%27.0%3.1%1.8%
September 2007 66.6%0.3%27.7%3.4%1.8%2007-10-30
2–8 July 2007 66.5%0.3%27.8%3.5%1.7%2007-07-18

TheCounter.com (2000 to 2009)

TheCounter.com identifies sixteen versions of six browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror). Other browsers are categorised as either "Netscape compatible" (including Google Chrome, which may also be categorized as "Safari" because of its "Webkit" subtag) or "unknown". Internet Explorer 8 is identified as Internet Explorer 7. Monthly data includes all hits from 2008-02-01 until the end of the month concerned. More than the exact browser type, this data identifies the underlying rendering engine used by various browsers, and the table below aggregates them in the same column.

Global usage share data from TheCounter.com (global statistics)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Netscape,
Other Mozilla,
Firefox		 Safari

 Opera

 Netscape
Navigator
 Sources
2009 Q4 66.42%21.13%10.05%1.00%0.05% Oct, Nov, Dec
2009 Q3 69.07%20.59%8.10%0.89%0.06% Jul, Aug, Sep
2009 Q2 70.31%20.12%6.44%0.94%0.06% Apr, May, Jun
2009 Q1 71.25%20.01%5.47%0.92%0.08% Jan, Feb, Mar
2008 Q4 74.24%18.66%4.52%0.89%0.07% Oct, Nov, Dec
2008 Q3 76.33%17.97%3.76%0.84%0.07% Jul, Aug, Sep
2008 Q2 78.30%16.36%3.41%0.81%0.06% Apr, May, Jun
2008 Q1 78.80%15.87%3.32%0.79%0.06% Jan, Feb, Mar
2007 Q4 81.14%13.81%3.21%0.67%0.06% Oct, Nov, Dec
2007 Q3 81.63%13.49%3.00%0.66%0.06% Jul, Aug, Sep
2007 Q2 82.97%12.41%2.87%0.64%0.06% Apr, May, Jun
2007 Q1 83.69%11.57%2.92%0.57%0.06% Jan, Feb, Mar
2006 Q4 84.11%11.13%2.80%0.60%0.05% Nov, Dec
2006 Q3 84.48%10.56%2.27%0.73%0.06% Jul, Aug, Sep
2006 Q2 86.32%9.03%1.89%0.70%0.05% Apr, May, Jun
2006 Q1 90.01%6.77%1.40%0.58%0.05% Jan, Feb, Mar
2005 Q4 87.25%8.60%1.83%0.71%0.07% Oct, Nov, Dec
2005 Q3 87.58%8.42%1.60%0.67%0.07% Jul, Aug, Sep
2005 Q2 90.90%6.02%0.99%0.51%0.09% Apr, May, Jun
2005 Q1 90.77%5.73%1.00%0.54%0.11% Jan, Feb, Mar
2004 Q4 90.98%5.10%0.77%0.68%0.18% Oct, Nov, Dec
2004 Q3 92.70%3.57%0.73%0.65%0.20% Jul, Aug, Sep
2004 Q2 95.04%2.37%0.67%0.51%0.32% Apr, May, Jun
2004 Q1 94.28%2.70%0.52%0.36% Jan, Feb, Mar
2003 Q4 Oct, Nov, Dec
2003 Q3 Jul, Aug, Sep
2003 Q2 94.43%2.22%0.66%1.45% Apr, May, Jun
2003 Q1 94.18%2.15%0.65%1.77% Jan, Feb, Mar
2002 Q4 93.94%1.67%0.83%2.31% Oct, Nov, Dec
2002 Q3 93.32%1.36%0.94%3.04% Jul, Aug, Sep
2002 Q2 92.47%1.13%0.82%4.13% Apr, May, Jun
2002 Q1 92.40%0.93%0.52%4.67% Jan, Feb, Mar
2001 Q4 90.83%0.71%0.36%5.23% Oct, Nov, Dec
2001 Q3 88.43%0.26%0.31%6.49% Jul, Aug, Sep
2001 Q2 87.99%0.27%0.28%7.46% Apr, May, Jun
2001 Q1 86.80%0.30%0.22%9.84% Jan, Feb, Mar
2000 Q4 83.95%0.14%0.14%12.61% Oct, Nov, Dec
2000 Q3 82.76%0.04%0.14%14.35% Jul, Aug, Sep
2000 Q2 80.30%0.02%0.12%17.54% Apr, May, Jun
2000 Q1 79.09%0.00%0.13%19.25% Jan, Feb, Mar
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Netscape,
Other Mozilla,
Firefox		 Safari

 Opera

 Netscape
Navigator
 Sources

OneStat.com (April 2002 to March 2009)
Global usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

 Netscape
Navigator
March 2009 79.79%15.59%2.65%0.86%0.54%0.31%
November 2008 81.36%14.67%2.42%0.54%0.55%0.32%
February 2008 83.27%13.76%2.18%0.55%0.14%
June 2007 84.66%12.72%1.79%0.61%0.11%
January 2007 85.81%11.69%1.64%0.58%0.13%
November 2006 85.24%12.15%1.61%0.69%0.11%
October 2006 85.85%11.49%1.61%0.69%0.12%
July 2006 83.05%12.93%1.84%1.00%0.16%
May 2006 85.17%11.79%2.02%0.79%0.15%
January 2006 85.82%11.23%1.88%0.77%0.16%
November 2005 85.45%11.51%1.75%0.77%0.26%
April 2005 86.63%8.69%1.26%1.03%1.08%
February 2005 87.28%8.45%1.21%1.09%1.11%
November 2004 88.90%7.35%0.91%1.33%
May 2004 93.9%2.1%0.71%1.02%
January 2004 94.8%1.8%0.48%0.8%
July 2003 95.4%1.6%0.25%0.6%1.9%0.6%
February 2003 95.2%1.2%0.11%0.7%1.9%1.0%
December 2002 95.0%1.1%0.8%1.9%1.1%
September 2002 94.9%0.8%0.9%1.8%1.2%
June 2002 95.3%0.4%0.7%1.5%1.9%
April 2002 96.6%0.5%0.7%2.1%
US usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

March 2009 72.69%20.40%4.53%1.05%0.49%0.38%
November 2008 75.54%18.74%3.95%0.62%0.39%0.50%
June 2007 75.69%19.65%3.77%0.61%0.17%
January 2007 78.13%16.11%3.68%0.73%0.18%
Canadian usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

March 2009 65.55%23.09%7.36%1.32%0.75%0.56%
November 2008 69.67%20.38%7.56%0.92%0.76%0.56%
June 2007 75.76%16.47%5.72%0.69%0.13%
January 2007 79.00%14.13%4.70%0.71%0.14%
UK usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

March 2009 80.91%15.16%1.94%0.85%0.60%0.36%
November 2008 83.77%11.45%1.76%0.43%0.60%0.34%
June 2007 86.00%11.22%1.61%0.53%0.10%
January 2007 86.72%10.86%1.78%0.49%0.10%
Australian usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

June 2007 66.42%26.32%1.86%4.05%0.24%
January 2007 65.71%26.68%1.77%4.28%0.24%
French usage share data from OneStat.com (press releases)
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Other Mozilla,
Firefox
 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Netscape

March 2009 71.57%23.48%2.90%0.86%0.54%0.46%
November 2008 71.50%23.45%3.23%0.59%0.56%0.51%

ADTECH (Europe, 2004 to 2009)
Europe usage share data from ADTECH's press releases; this is an ad serving company
Period
 Internet
Explorer
 Firefox

 Safari

 Chrome

 Opera

 Other Mozilla

 Netscape

Q4 2009 63.6%26.7%3.6%2.8%1.7%0.7%
Q1 2009 67.7%25.3%2.6%1.0%1.4%1.1%
Q1 2008 76.2%18.1%1.7%1.0%2.6%
Q4 2007 76.0%18.0%1.6%1.0%2.9%
July 2007 77.5%15.5%1.6%0.9%3.9%
February 2007 77.34%14.34%1.63%0.85%5.11%
February–April 2006 83.36%12.38%1.67%0.77%0.82%0.38%
September 2005 83.31%12.41%1.40%0.90%1.06%0.61%
June 2005 85.10%10.11%1.34%1.21%1.05%0.60%
March 2005 86.73%8.96%1.12%1.14%0.71%
February 2005 87.57%7.85%1.05%1.26%0.76%
January 2005 87.13%7.43%1.70%1.33%0.85%
November 2004 89.47%5.51%1.01%2.50%0.92%
September 2004 92.63%2.91%1.00%2.10%0.82%
August 2004 93.08%2.15%0.89%2.18%0.95%
July 2004 93.08%1.64%0.99%2.62%0.97%
January–April 2004 94.72%0.73%2.50%1.49%

WebSideStory (US, February 1999 to June 2006)
US usage share data from: WebSideStory
Date Internet Explorer Netscape, Other Mozilla Firefox Source
June 2006 86.64%9.95%19 July 2006
5 January 2006 87.63%8.88%12 January 2006
4 November 2005 88.16%1.61%8.13%10 November 2005
23 September 2005 88.46%1.69%7.86%27 September 2005
29 April 2005 88.86%2.23%6.75%10 May 2005
18 February 2005 89.85%2.47%5.69%28 February 2005
14 January 2005 90.28%2.64%4.95%
3 December 2004 91.80%2.83%4.06%
5 November 2004 92.89%2.95%3.03%
8 October 2004 93.21%3.05%2.66%13 December 2004
4 June 2004 95.48%3.53%
26 August 2002 95.97%3.39%28 August 2002
25 October 2001 89.03%10.47%31 October 2001
25 April 2001 86.61%13.10%1 May 2001
21 February 2001 87.71%12.01%22 February 2001
18 June 2000 86.08%13.90%
2 August 1999 75.31%24.68%9 August 1999
6 April 1999 68.75%29.46%7 April 1999
1 March 1999 66.90%31.21%2 March 1999
8 February 1999 64.60%33.43%22 February 2001

Older reports (pre-2000)
Market share for several browsers between 1995 and 2010, illustrating the First Browser War (NN vs IE). Firefox was originally named "Phoenix", a name which implied that it would rise like a Phoenix after Netscape was killed off by Microsoft.


GVU WWW user survey (January 1994 to October 1998)

Usage share data from: GVU WWW user survey
Date Mosaic Netscape Navigator Internet Explorer Source
October 1998 64% 32.2% Primary Browser in 12 Months
April 1998 70% 22.7% Browser Expected to Use in 12 Months
October 1997 59.67% 15.13% Browser Expected to Use in 12 Months
April 1997 81.13% 12.13% Browser Expected to Use in 12 Months
October 1996 80.45% 12.18% Browser Expected to Use in 12 Months
April 1996 89.36% 3.76% Browser Expected to Use in 12 Months
April 1995 9% 54% Hal Berghel's Cybernautica – "A Web Monopoly"
October 1994 68% 18% Result Graph – Browser
January 1994 97% General Results Graphs


EWS Web Server at UIUC (1996 Q2 to 1998)

Usage share data from: EWS Web Server at UIUC
Date Mosaic Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
1998 Q4 50.43%46.87%Oct 1998, Nov 1998, Dec 1998
1998 Q3 47.90%48.97%Jul 1998, Aug 1998, Sep 1998
1998 Q2 43.17%53.57%Apr 1998, May 1998, Jun 1998
1998 Q1 39.67%57.63%Jan 1998, Feb 1998, Mar 1998
1997 Q4 35.53%62.23%Oct 1997, Nov 1997, Dec 1997
1997 Q3 32.40%64.93%Jul 1997, Aug 1997, Sep 1997
1997 Q2 0.37%27.67%69.77%Apr 1997, May 1997, Jun 1997
1997 Q1 0.60%22.87%74.33%Jan 1997, Feb 1997, Mar 1997
1996 Q4 1.20%19.07%77.13%Oct 1996, Nov 1996, Dec 1996
1996 Q3 2.47%13.97%80.37%Jul 1996, Aug 1996, Sep 1996
1996 Q2 6.93%9.60%82.77%Apr 1996, May 1996, Jun 1996


ZD Market Intelligence (US, January 1997 to January 1998)

Usage share data from: ZD Market Intelligence
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
January 1998 39%54%Behind the numbers: Browser market share
January 1997 21%63%


Zona Research (US, Jan 1997 to Jan 1998)

Usage share data from: Zona Research
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
July 1998 45%54%Behind the numbers: Browser market share
September 1997 36%62%
January 1997 28%70%


AdKnowledge (January 1998 to June 1998)

Usage share data from: AdKnowledge
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
June 1998 46%52%Behind the numbers: Browser market share
March 1998 42%57%
January 1998 36%61%


Dataquest (1995 to 1997)

Usage share data from: Dataquest
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
1997 39.4%57.6%Browser wars: High price, huge rewards
1996 20%73%
1995 2.9%80.1%


International Data Corporation (US, 1996 to 1997)

Usage share data from: International Data Corporation
Date Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Source
1997 23%51%Behind the numbers: Browser market share
1996 16%55%

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