Finding browser usage statistics..

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http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
This report was generated 04/30/2010 based on the last 15,000 page views to each website tracked by W3Counter. W3Counter's sample currently includes 35,926 websites. The browser market share graph includes data from all versions of the named browser families, not only the top 10 as listed below.
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http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Statistics Are Often Misleading

You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading.

Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, while other sites attract hobbyists using old low spec computers.

Also be aware that many statistics may have an incomplete or faulty browser detection. It is quite common by many web-stats report programs, not to detect the newest browsers.

(The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures).
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Both Monitor different things using different sample sizes and varying accuracy. That's like asking how many red-heads are in the world right now
 
Raithlin said:
Over 100 million, or about 5% of the world population.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_red_heads_are_there

:D
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ORLY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair
Approximately 1% to 2% of the human population has red hair
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http://yedda.com/questions/redheads_hair_2736415867156/
subject. There are many figures of how many of the world's population are redheads.... ranging from 1.91% to 5.6%..... so the accepted value is 4%
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...ode=&contentId=A47332-2002Mar18&notFound=true
Redheads are definitely genetic outliers. Less than 1 percent of the human race may be redheads -- at most, 2
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Point proven ;)
 
Raithlin said:
Actually, all we're proving is that you can't believe everything you read - particularly if it exists on a wiki... ;)
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Precisely my point,and more to the point,different websites providing varying and different numbers :)
 
www.alexa.com
NOT. lol.

even neilsen's netratings for sa only works on sites which have it installed, particularly opa sites (any mybb of course).
but if you're looking for stats, you just have to find the ones that support your argument, right - isn't that the point of stats? :)
 
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