Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 13:29:26
market share, statcounter, opera, net applications
...
Google just announced that Chrome has
more than 30 million users. The latest number for Opera from a few months ago was more than 40 million users. However, both
StatCounter and
Net Applications list Chrome with a higher market share than Opera in October (1.88 for Opera/4.17 for Chrome, and 2.17 for Opera/3.58 for Chrome, respectively).
That's how
reliable browser statistics are...
Monday, 10. August 2009, 12:39:31
market share, browser stats, opera, net applications
...
Net Applications has
retroactively changed all its statistics, and the result is that Opera's market share is listed at around 2%. This is still lower than the more accurate 3% figure reported elsewhere, but at least Opera benefits from the changes for once.
Those who have followed my blog may recall that Net Applications has previously
dumped Opera's figures with no explanation what so ever.
Read more...
Friday, 24. April 2009, 11:14:35
market share, statcounter, opera, malware
According to a report by Finjan, Opera is used on 3% of a
recently discovered botnet consisting of 1.9 million malware-infected PCs.
While a "fun" fact in itself, this number actually confirms the global Opera usage figure reported by
StatCounter. However, the botnet figures have a much higher usage share for IE, and lower for Firefox, than StatCounter reports.
Again, we should remain skeptical of browser statistics because of all the error sources that exist. The botnet figures are very interesting, though, because the methodology is obviously very different to that of StatCounter and other browser statistics companies.
It does indicate that Net Applications's <1% for Opera must be way off, if nothing else. And yet, journalists and bloggers repeat the numbers from Net Applications without batting an eye.
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