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Gremlin
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 Posted - 04 February 2003 : 19:15:52
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer global market share is 95% according to OneStat.com
Amsterdam – December 16 2002 – OneStat.com ( http://www.onestat.com ), the number one provider of real-time web site analytics, today reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 95 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate the global browser market. The global usage share of Netscape is 3.0 percent and is the second most popular browser in the world.
Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 5.3 percent from 52.3 percent to 57.6 percent. The global usage share of Netscape 7 has increased with 0.1 percent from 0.5 to 0.6 percent. Mozilla's global usage share is 1.1 percent and Opera 6 has a global usage of 0.8 percent.
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE 6.0 57.6%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 18.3%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 16.9%
4. Netscape Navigator 4.0 1.1%
5. Mozilla 1 1.1%
6. Microsoft IE 4.0 0.9%
7. Opera 6.0 0.8%
Companies with the largest total global usage shares on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE 95.0%
2. Netscape Navigator 3.0%
3. Mozilla 1.1%
The most popular browsers in the Netherlands are:
1. Microsoft IE 6.0 60.6%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 16.8%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 15.1%
4. Micsrosoft IE 4.0 1.6%
5. Mozilla 1 1.6%
6. Opera 6 1.5%
7. Netscape Navigator 4.0 0.9%
Companies with the largest total global usage shares in the Netherlands are:
1. Microsoft IE 94.9%
2. Opera 1.7%
3. Mozilla 1.6%
OneStat.com is the number one provider of real-time web site analytics in the world. Our superior technology powers more than 50,000 websites in 100 countries. With our accurate, detailed & reliable reports we will be able to answer questions about visitor behaviour, site performance and retention.
The OneStat.com solutions provide executives, marketers and webmasters with answers to critical e-business questions such as:
· Who is visiting my website?
· How many pageviews, visits (sessions) and visitors are coming on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly basis?
· What content, products, and services do my visitors prefer?
· How many visitors return to the website and how often?
· What kind of search engine do they use?
· What kind of technology do your visitors use to view the website?
· What is the return on investment of my advertising campaigns?
· How do I identify significant trends?
· How much time do they spent on the website?
OneStat.com has the intention to become the number one and largest pan-European provider of real-time website analysis software. The web analytics ASP market totalled $49 million in 2000 and could be worth over $700 million in 2004, according to research agencies.
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 month and all measurements are normalised to the GMT timezone. The last research regarding global usage shares of browsers was published on September 30 2002. Research is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.
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ruirib
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seahorse
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Posted - 04 February 2003 : 20:18:54
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I think the Apple market share is something like 3% too. Maybe that's an MS competitor toleration threshold. 
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Nathan
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Posted - 04 February 2003 : 21:15:17
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| I think the Netscape Navigator 3/4 stats are heavily scewd by spiders |
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sr_erick
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Posted - 04 February 2003 : 23:19:16
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| I also would agree with those stats. I love IE, no need to switch. For me, it is very stable and works excellent. |
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HuwR
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 03:35:39
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Originally posted by Nathan
I think the Netscape Navigator 3/4 stats are heavily scewd by spiders
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wii
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 06:23:31
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| I believe the reason IE is better than the others, is because most sites are optimized for IE. |
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sy
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 07:00:09
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It's not suprising when you think that IE is installed on most all new computers.
Nice to see Mozilla is holding on though :)
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Roland
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 07:35:29
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IE can do tricks that other browsers either can't do, or can't do as well/easy as IE does them. If I had to choose between any non-IE browser, I'd go for Opera 7 though. An added benefit of using Opera 7 for me is that for some reason I have the free version and it doesn't show any banners  |
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Podge
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GauravBhabu
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 19:00:12
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I have used Netscape for almost an hour (how did I do that  ) during all these years. But I like the 7.x |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 19:13:10
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Anyone remember when Netscape was number 1 ?
Yep. I used it as my single browser until about 2 years ago. By then the number of sites that wouldn't show properly was just too much, and had to start using IE. |
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Nathan
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Posted - 05 February 2003 : 23:28:15
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Originally posted by HuwR
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Originally posted by Nathan
I think the Netscape Navigator 3/4 stats are heavily scewd by spiders
Why ?
2 Reasons:
1) Many stats generators mistake spider UA signatures for NN3/4
2) Apparently at one point many spiders displayed the UA signature of the NN3 (And perhaps 4) client browser. And many of these may still be in use.
I was just reading a spider writing tutorial the other day, and the demo code used the signature of IE (so its really not IE requesting the page, it just tells the server it is) |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
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Posted - 06 February 2003 : 04:16:32
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| I believe you'll find the place that actually publishes these Browser usage statistics factor in most of the known issues with browser identification, they're in the business of Traffic/Hit counting so I'd hope at least that they were fairly accurate. |
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Nathan
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Posted - 06 February 2003 : 13:10:42
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If a spider uses the same UA signature as a browser, and uses the same handshake, even the best software cannot tell them apart.
The software that tracks Ls3k.com is LiveStats by Media House, a 'well respeced' business who do that kinda stuff. Unfortuantly, the version Readyhosting has installed is 5.02, which came out before IE 6. So, logically, you would expect no IE 6 browsers in my stats and a whole lot of unknown browsers. But thats not what I get at all. Instead, 70% of my hits are recorded as Netscape 4, so obviously LiveStats cant tell the IE 6 and NN4 signatures apart. What else can it not tell apart? |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
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Posted - 06 February 2003 : 15:41:42
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| If the UA is the same then yes they'll get recorded the same, hence the "% of error" factor some report to cater for this, where they get or how they calculate that % of error from who knows. |
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