Saturday, January 2, 2010 10:52:00 PM
stats, browser stats, net applications, hitslink
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Net Applications reports an
increase in market share for both Opera Mini and Opera (desktop) in December 2009. What's odd is that Opera for desktop is reported as having a market share of 2.40%, while Opera Mini has a mere 0.53%.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:29:26 PM
market share, statcounter, opera, net applications
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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, August 24, 2009 2:55:07 PM
statcounter, net applications, google, statistics
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Mozilla's Asa Dotzler wants Google to
start providing browser usage statistics again.
I completely agree.
Asa also thinks that Google's statistics will be more globally representative than what we have to day.
That, I don't agree with.
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Monday, August 10, 2009 12:39:31 PM
market share, browser stats, opera, net applications
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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.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:32:18 AM
stats, statcounter, opera, net applications
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With more and more of Net Applications's
dirty secrets being dug up all the time, other stats companies are taking the opportunity to speak up and try to gather a following. One of them,
StatCounter, has apparently been doing stats since 1999, but they don't seem to be quoted much by the media.
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Friday, December 12, 2008 12:58:45 PM
stats, browser stats, opera, net applications
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Now that Google have announced that Chrome has reached
10 million users worldwide and our
quarterly reports report the number of active Opera desktop users, we can actually compare these numbers to various browser stats.
Since I've been writing a lot about Net Applications lately, let's take a look at how they are doing. According to them,
Opera's market share is 0.71%, and
Chrome is at 0.83% for November.
If the numbers reported by Chrome and ourselves are accurate, Opera has three times more users than Google worldwide. However, Net Applications reports that Chrome actually has a higher market share.
Food for thought.
Congratulations to Google, by the way, for the official release of Chrome!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:56:55 PM
browser stats, opera, net applications, stats
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In an article at "The Industry Standard", Net Applications apparently
admit that their numbers are skewed. More specifically, they admit that they are skewed towards certain regions of the world (US-centric, anyone?). In such an amazing moment of honesty, I wonder why they didn't also admit to actively
editing their own statistics.
Update: Their claim to be skewed towards Europe doesn't really match
XiTi Monitor's statistics for Europe. This would indicate that Net Applications is
heavily skewed towards the US.
Thursday, September 4, 2008 7:13:29 PM
browser stats, net applications, chrome, hitslink
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I was curious to see how the uptake of Google's Chrome browser would be, considering that they were promoting it on their front page. I looked it up on a
special page set up by Net Applications to track Chrome usage before I left for work. It seemed to do pretty well, as it climbed above 1%, passing Opera's alleged market share. Not really surprising considering the massive media coverage it was getting.
When I got back later and reloaded the page, I noticed that it had gone down to 0.5% or so the last few hours. I still left the page open, and returned a little later. To my surprise, the page was no longer showing the same numbers for the same time. It's as if it had never shown 0.5%.
I tried to get my hands on a cached copy of the page to make sure that it wasn't just a mistake on my part, and indeed, it was not. Apparently Net Applications decided to change the numbers after they had been published.
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My Opera
(27%)
