{"id":19533,"date":"2011-04-06T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-06T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T09:58:00","slug":"browser-usage-stats-march-2011-chrome-and-windows-7-still-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/19533-browser-usage-stats-march-2011-chrome-and-windows-7-still-growing.html","title":{"rendered":"Browser usage stats \u2013 March 2011: Chrome and Windows 7 still growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chrome, the web browser developed by the search giant Google, has shown tremendous growth since it first launched at the beginning of September 2008.<\/p>\n

A year after its launch, Chrome saw a greater share of usage online than Apple’s browser (Safari) and Opera, which have both been in the web browser market for far longer than Google Chrome.<\/p>\n

While there is much discussion about the accuracy of measurement of browser and operating system usage by web-based metrics, the statistics do give an indication of trends.<\/p>\n

Mozilla Firefox has lost some ground in the browser market over the last few months, but Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser has seen a sharp decline in usage over the last few years.<\/p>\n

Microsoft released the latest version of their web browser, Internet Explorer 9<\/a>, towards the middle of March 2011, which some analysts say will help stabilise or even reverse IE’s declining market share.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the browser usage statistics for March 2011 as collected by NetApplications, Stat Counter, and W3Counter.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Source <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nInternet Explorer <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nFirefox <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nChrome <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nSafari <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nOpera <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Net Applications<\/td>\n55.92%<\/td>\n21.80%<\/td>\n11.57%<\/td>\n6.61%<\/td>\n2.15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stat Counter<\/td>\n45.11%<\/td>\n29.98%<\/td>\n17.37%<\/td>\n5.02%<\/td>\n1.97%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
W3Counter<\/td>\n39.30%<\/td>\n30.10%<\/td>\n15.60%<\/td>\n6.00%<\/td>\n2.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mean<\/strong><\/td>\n46.78%<\/strong><\/td>\n27.29%<\/strong><\/td>\n14.85%<\/strong><\/td>\n5.88%<\/strong><\/td>\n2.04%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Stat Counter also allows statistics to be filtered by country. A look at South Africa’s trend graph indicates that IE is seeing a somewhat slower decline locally, though Chrome’s growth is still strong.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
March 2011 Browser usage – South Africa<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Browser<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nUsage share<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Internet Explorer<\/td>\n61.80%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Firefox<\/td>\n20.64%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chrome<\/td>\n12.71%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/td>\n3.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera<\/td>\n1.19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n0.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile<\/td>\n8.14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

MyBroadband also collects statistics on the browsers and operating systems used to access the site through Google Analytics.<\/p>\n

According to these statistics MyBroadband has far fewer Internet Explorer visitors than the global average, while Firefox and Chrome usage is a few percentage points higher.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Browser usage share on MyBroadband from 1 February 2011 to 28 February 2011<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/strong><\/td>\n		Browser usage share<\/strong><\/td>\nBrowser on operating system usage share<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rank<\/strong><\/td>\nBrowser<\/strong><\/td>\nShare<\/strong><\/td>\nBrowser \/ Operating system<\/strong><\/td>\nShare<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nInternet Explorer<\/td>\n34.25%<\/td>\nInternet Explorer \/ Windows<\/td>\n34.23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFirefox<\/td>\n31.70%<\/td>\nFirefox \/ Windows<\/td>\n27.68%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nChrome<\/td>\n20.77%<\/td>\nChrome \/ Windows<\/td>\n18.47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSafari<\/td>\n6.28%<\/td>\nOpera Mini \/ (not set)<\/td>\n3.31%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nOpera Mini<\/td>\n3.61%<\/td>\nSafari \/ Macintosh<\/td>\n3.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nOpera<\/td>\n2.11%<\/td>\nFirefox \/ Linux<\/td>\n2.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nMozilla Compatible Agent<\/td>\n0.42%<\/td>\nOpera \/ Windows<\/td>\n1.84%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nBlackBerry8520<\/td>\n0.18%<\/td>\nFirefox \/ Macintosh<\/td>\n1.65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nBlackBerry9700<\/td>\n0.12%<\/td>\nChrome \/ Linux<\/td>\n1.25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nIE with Chrome Frame<\/td>\n0.09%<\/td>\nSafari \/ iPhone<\/td>\n1.16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

The use of Opera Mini, a web browser typically used on mobile devices, still ranks highly on MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

Stat Counter also has a measure comparing desktop browser usage against mobile browser usage which shows a steady increase from December 2008 to today. Worldwide mobile browser usage is 4.7% according to Stat Counter.<\/p>\n

In South Africa mobile browser usage is almost double that of the global usage statistic at 8.14%.<\/p>\n

Browser usage stats – March 2011: Chrome and Windows 7 still growing<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Browser and operating system usage statistics for March 2011 show that Google Chrome is still steadily growing while the market share of Internet Explorer and Firefox declines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}