Fatal's Journal

Just created two charts from HitsLink data that show browsers trends:

On the first chart we can see a stable fall of IE. Yay! And release of IE7 doesn’t really help Microsoft. Also here we clearly see fast growth of Firefox and stable growth of Safari. You can hardly see Opera here in comparison to other 3 browsers, so I created 2nd chart that shows growth of non-IE browsers.

Here we can see that growth of Firefox is fast but not as stable as Safari’s. Netscape and Mozilla suite seems already a history — their small market share is slowly falling, recent releases of Netscape browser seems not help.
Opera hopefully will be “new Netscape of 2004″ in a year with market share of 2% or so — we can see pretty stable growth in last 10-12 months. Opera Mini grows fast and stable, so expect that it may outrun desktop version of Opera in a year or so.


I will update charts, so this post will show browsers trends up to date.

Peter Gasston from CSS3.info surprised by quickly growing IE7 stats and still very low Opera stats:

One thing that struck me looking through all my stats was the tiny number of people using Opera - in many cases, none at all. Opera is a very good browser - fast, lightweight and standards-compliant; so why aren’t more people using it? I know in my case I rely on the Addons for Firefox; and I know from experience that most Mac users prefer Safari. But what’s stopping everyone else from using it?
Is it because it was paid-for or ad-supported for so long that people have got used to alternatives? Is it because it isn’t marketed well? I’d be interested to hear readers views on their reasons if they don’t use Opera.

Fresh browser statistics from OneStat.com make me wonder which rules they use to sort columns in reports... They use rules nor by browser name, nor by browser share percentage.
That what they have:

The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE      85.45 %
2. Mozilla Firefox   11.51 %
3. Apple Safari       1.75 %
4. Netscape           0.26 %
5. Opera              0.77 %

The most popular browsers in the USA are:
1. Microsoft IE      80.73 %
2. Mozilla Firefox   14.07 %
3. Apple Safari       3.55 %
4. Netscape           0.76 %
5. Opera              0.77 %

The most popular browsers in Canada are:
1. Microsoft IE      78.52 %
2. Mozilla Firefox   16.98 %
3. Apple Safari       2.05 %
4. Netscape           0.68 %
5. Opera              1.67 %

The most popular browsers in the UK are:
1. Microsoft IE      93.37 %
2. Mozilla Firefox    4.94 %
3. Apple Safari       0.99 %
4. Netscape           0.23 %
5. Opera              0.39 %

Why Opera need to be the last? Netscape need to have last position!

Update: Some Slashdotters commented this too.

By the way there is stats from one of the largest Ukrainian portals: BigMir.

Microsoft IE          82.7 %
Mozilla/Firefox        9.5 %
Opera                  6.5 %
Netscape               0.5 %
Safari/Konqueror       0.6 %
Other                  0.6 %

From WebReference.com browser statistics:

OP 5    6   0.01
OP 6    9   0.02
OP 7  141   0.32
OP 8  551   1.27
OP 9    1   0.00

Also see there.
I Merlin