{"id":61524,"date":"2012-10-06T12:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61524"},"modified":"2012-10-08T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T06:16:46","slug":"browser-wars-stats-for-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61524-browser-wars-stats-for-september-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Browser Wars: Stats for September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> Chrome<\/a> has extended its lead over Mozilla<\/a> Firefox<\/a> in South Africa, while Apple<\/a>\u2019s Safari<\/a> keeps its upward trend, and Microsoft<\/a> Internet Explorer<\/a> continues to lose page views, according to the latest browser usage data from StatCounter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Globally, Firefox has taken a sharp dive while Internet Explorer\u2019s decline seems to have slowed, but Chrome remains in the lead with 34.21% of the page views.<\/p>\n

Chrome pulled ahead of Internet Explorer (IE) in May 2012 after Microsoft\u2019s browser took a sharp dive from 34.07% share to 32.12%.<\/p>\n

Net Applications<\/a>, a company that runs its own web analytics system, paints a somewhat different picture to StatCounter, however.<\/p>\n

According to their stats, Internet Explorer is comfortably in the lead with 53.63% of the global browser market share, followed by Firefox (20.08%), and then Chrome (18.86%).<\/p>\n

The disparity between the two analytics companies is attributed to the different way in which they rank browsers: StatCounter measures market share based on raw pageviews, whereas Net Applications uses unique visitors weighted by the number of Internet users in a country.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Desktop browser stats: 2012 September<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Browser<\/td>\nNet Applications: Global<\/td>\nStatCounter: Global<\/td>\nStatCounter: South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Internet Explorer<\/td>\n53.63%<\/td>\n32.7%<\/td>\n47.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Firefox<\/td>\n20.08%<\/td>\n22.4%<\/td>\n19.32%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chrome<\/td>\n18.86%<\/td>\n34.21%<\/td>\n22.41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/td>\n5.26%<\/td>\n7.7%<\/td>\n8.26%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera<\/td>\n1.62%<\/td>\n1.61%<\/td>\n1.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n0.56%<\/td>\n1.38%<\/td>\n1.89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"StatCounter

StatCounter browser map – September 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Mobile browser stats<\/h3>\n

With the browser war heating up in the mobile space it\u2019s interesting to look at the statistics available for that as well.<\/p>\n

Here StatCounter and NetApplications have differing approaches as well, this time making it impossible to compare their statistics side-by side.<\/p>\n

As with their desktop browser stats, Net Applications measures unique visitors weighted by the number of Internet users in a country. They also consider tablet PCs and mobile phones together:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
NetMarketshare Mobile\/tablet browser stats: 2012 September<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Browser<\/td>\nNet Applications: Global<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Safari<\/td>\n64.01%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android<\/td>\n20.94%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera Mini<\/td>\n9.55%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry<\/td>\n1.37%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Symbian<\/td>\n1.08%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n3.04%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

StatCounter, on the other hand, recently explained<\/a> on Twitter that devices such as the iPad do not meet their definition of a \u201cmobile device\u201d.<\/p>\n

This means that the statistics shown in the table below do not include the page views of a mobile browser from tablet PCs that might be running it.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
StatCounter mobile browser stats: September 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Browser<\/td>\nStatCounter: South Africa<\/td>\nStatCounter: Global<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera<\/td>\n57.97%<\/td>\n19.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android<\/td>\n11.69%<\/td>\n25.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iPhone<\/td>\n11.55%<\/td>\n20.62%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry<\/td>\n3.03%<\/td>\n4.27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UC Browser<\/td>\n1.18%<\/td>\n7.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samsung<\/td>\n0.76%<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IE Mobile<\/td>\n0.7%<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NetFront<\/td>\n0.61%<\/td>\n4.01%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nokia<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n10.61%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iPod Touch<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n2.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dolfin<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n1.21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n2.71%<\/td>\n4.65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"StatCounter

StatCounter mobile browser map – September 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Related articles<\/h3>\n

Chrome overtakes Firefox in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Google Chrome overtakes Microsoft Internet Explorer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Browser wars escalate in the mobile space<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Browser Wars: Usage stats for March 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile wars make tough calls for publishers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet Explorer and Firefox usage continue to decline in South Africa, while Chrome and Safari gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":34322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1137,35,16022,4930,207],"class_list":["post-61524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google-chrome","tag-headline","tag-microsoft-internet-explorer","tag-mozilla-firefox","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524"}],"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=61524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61596,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions\/61596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}